Survival
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Statuses
Best Games in the Survival genre for PC
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting, Procedural generation
Early Access: PC → 17 March 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
7.5/10
Steam:
81/100
A cooperative role-playing sandbox, the action of which takes place among islands floating in the sky. Players explore endless procedurally generated locations...
Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Crafting, Survival, Online, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Game released: PC → 14 October 2021
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
83/100
The Riftbreaker is a sci-fi action game with real-time strategy elements. You will take on the role of Captain Ashley Novak — Riftbreaker, an elite commando...
Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Sandbox, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, City Building, Comedy, Fantasy, Medieval era, Construction
Early Access: PC → 28 April 2025; Game released: PC → 19 April 2026
Steam:
82/100
A voxel sandbox where players build huge castles in a war-torn ancient world and defend them from hordes of enemies that threaten the entire kingdom. One of the...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting, Procedural generation
Game released: PC → 3 September 2026
Steam:
61/100
An adventure sandbox with a procedurally generated world, inspired by Terraria. Players will encounter a vast open world without the usual cubic blocks, where they...
Shooter, Futurism (Future), First-person view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Combat robots, Science fiction, Survival, Crafting, Simulation
Early Access: PC → 23 November 2022; Game released: PC → 17 April 2025
Players:
9.9/10
Steam:
55/100
Sci-fi survival shooter. The game has an open world, survival elements, crafting items and weapons, as well as multiplayer. The game takes place in a futuristic...
Adventure, Action, Role-playing game, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy, Third-person view, Survival, Exploration, Crafting
Game released: PC → 24 October 2023
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
79/100
Metacritic:
59/100
A cooperative action game for survival in the fantasy universe of The Lord of the Rings. The Dwarves embark on a dangerous journey to reclaim their legendary...
Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Procedural generation, Online
Early Access: PC → 12 December 2019; Game released: PC → 16 October 2025
Players:
6.6/10
Steam:
94/100
A colorful action sandbox that combines exploration, crafting, settlement building, and cooperative play. The procedurally generated world is filled with various...
Adventure, First-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting, Procedural generation
Early Access: PC → 23 September 2024; Game released: PC → 17 March 2026
Players:
6.2/10
Steam:
64/100
An open world survival simulator that takes players to beautiful tropical islands. The game takes place in the Pacific Ocean. Players explore procedurally generated...
Simulation, First-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Game released: PC → 8 June 2026
Steam:
81/100
Metacritic:
65/100
A survival game set in a future world where civilization has risen into the sky and settled on floating islands. Here, technology coexists with nature, and daily...
Free game, Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Action, Roguelike, Fantasy / Medieval, Survival, Online, Crafting
Game released: PC → 5 June 2021
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
93/100
Muck is a free adventure action game with roguelike elements and a first-person view in a fantasy setting. The hero finds himself on an island where he needs to...
Action, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Arcade, Indie, Survival, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Zombies
Early Access: PC → 7 May 2025; Game released: PC → 12 June 2026
Steam:
69/100
A cooperative action game where survival involves traveling on a giant tracked vehicle. The world is full of dangers: zombies attack a mobile home, and you have to...
Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Science fiction, Survival, Space, Strategy
Game released: PC → 18 February 2026
Players:
6.7/10
Steam:
78/100
Metacritic:
74/100
The player explores space and pilots a legendary starship. They must survive and find a way home. They must plan a route, manage resources, and make difficult...
Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Sandbox, Survival, Zombies
Early Access: PC → 7 July 2014; Game released: PC → 7 July 2017
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
90/100
Unturned is a multiplayer sandbox action game with a first-person view. The main goal here is to survive by defending yourself from zombies and hostile players...
Adventure, Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Horror, Survival, Zombies
Game released: PC → 12 June 2019
Players:
6.5/10
Steam:
79/100
Delivery from the Pain: Survival is an action-adventure role-playing game with survival elements and a top-down view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. A...
Action, Top-down view, Shooter, Role-playing game, Fantasy, Roguelike, Survival, Horror, Casual game
Early Access: PC → 8 June 2022; Game released: PC → 8 June 2023
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
91/100
A minimalist action roguelike where heroes fight against countless hordes of monsters straight out of the pen of H. P. Lovecraft. With a wide variety of characters...
Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival
Early Access: PC → 22 April 2024; Game released: PC → 17 September 2026
Players:
9.3/10
Steam:
88/100
The main character, together with his dog, explores the post-apocalyptic exclusion zone in search of valuable artifacts. On his way, the character encounters...
Simulation, Business / Management, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, City Building, Construction, Crafting
Game released: PC → 3 April 2026
Steam:
76/100
Metacritic:
73/100
A post-apocalyptic city-building simulator in which any building can collapse. As the leader of a small group of survivors, you will have to build a vertical city...
Action, Online, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Steampunk, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Crafting, Open world
Early Access: PC → 20 February 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
7.1/10
Steam:
70/100
A cooperative action game about traveling through fantasy worlds, through which you can move through mystical portals. The main goal is to reach Nightingale, the...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Steampunk, Open world, Battle Royale, MMO, Survival
Early Access: PC → 22 June 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
10/10
Steam:
51/100
The game takes place in an alternate world where the Austro-Hungarian Empire discovered interplanetary travel. The characters in the game are the inhabitants of...
Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Roguelike
Game released: PC → 16 November 2018
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
73/100
Bad North is a minimalist real-time strategy game with tower defense elements and an isometric camera view. You have to defend your island against the impending...