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573 Survival games reviewed and scored, best first.
573 reviews
Developer Tlön Industries, published by indienova and V Publishing, delivers a metroidvania fused with survival-crafting and factory-style automation, earning specific praise for its genre blend, art direction and writing from a Mostly Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint that manual plant-watering, shallow base management and inconsistent combat undercut an otherwise ambitious automation loop.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$10.49 stationary-defense aim trainer from solo developer Cosmos, 100% positive across a tiny 14-review corpus and backed by well over a year of frequent, numbered patches through to a deliberate "Final Update" in October 2023 — a well-crafted niche game undersold by a store description that claims movement-based combat its own reviewers say doesn't exist.
6.5 / 10
A Fungal Apocalypse, a Missing Sister, and a Two-Person Team's Ambitious Debut Last Breath puts players in control of Guan Jin, an older sister searching a fungus-ravaged world
6.5 / 10
Machine Mind blends vehicle combat, base-building, and RTS-style bot automation into a genuinely unusual post-apocalyptic survival game, and this review's sample shows real enthusiasm for that combination undercut by a hidden tech tree, a documented softlock risk, and a late-game performance drop the developer has only recently started to address.
6.5 / 10
Bungie's return to its own oldest franchise reimagines Marathon as a stylish PvP extraction shooter, and this review's sample confirms the studio's signature gunplay, art direction, and sound design land as strongly as ever, set against a serious, sustained complaint that the game's hardcore, trios-focused design and total exclusion of Linux/Steam Deck players via BattlEye have limited its audience.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed card-and-projectile roguelite that layers deckbuilding, bullet-heaven combat and light auto-battling into a single dual-character system — genuinely inventive by the account of the one detailed English review available, though its review base is small and overwhelmingly non-English.
6.5 / 10
A medieval-fantasy blend of Stardew Valley farming and open-world RPG adventuring, built by a two-person team, whose beautiful art and genuine ambition were badly let down by a "1.0" launch that its own most-upvoted reviews say played like early access — since substantially redeemed by almost two years of continuous free updates.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed first-person open-world RPG that regenerates a 250 km² province every campaign and wraps combat, crafting, family upkeep, crime and slavery-and-abolition systems around one shared skill ladder — launched into Early Access with an 18-to-24-month roadmap to 1.0 and its main storyline not yet in the build.
6.5 / 10
A notoriously janky, deliberately punishing Finnish car-building and life simulator where players assemble a 1990s Datsun from scratch, Very Positive across more than 37,000 reviews for genuinely unmatched mechanical depth — undercut by an openly acknowledged developer philosophy of prioritising difficulty over conventional fun, severe persistent bugs many players say require third-party community tools to work around, and specific updates longtime players describe as actively removing convenience rather than adding it.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer, first-person co-op survival horror shooter built as an open love letter to Resident Evil Outbreak earns a Very Positive Steam launch, with reviewers consistently praising its content-per-dollar value and an unusually responsive developer even as a smaller but vocal minority reports rough combat, confusing UI, bugs, and lighting that leaves the game nearly unplayable without adjustment.
6.5 / 10
A genre mash-up that does what it says on the tin — turn-based tactical combat fused with extraction-looter risk management, in a Western-gothic horror setting — emerging from a 13-month Early Access run with real praise for its core tension and real complaints about repetition and a gear-progression curve that eventually breaks its own difficulty.
6.5 / 10
An auto-attacking bullet-heaven roguelite that launched the same month Vampire Survivors hit 1.0 -- a genuinely well-built entry in a genre that exploded around it, still Very Positive years later, but reviewers increasingly frame it against sharper rivals that didn't exist when it came out.
6.5 / 10
A zombie-themed idle tower-defense game from DeadLogics about a single automated cannon fending off endless undead waves while players chase ever-bigger upgrades, earning a Positive launch reception for its addictive, low-effort progression loop, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about missing day-one content, clumsy UI, and a mismatch between marketing and its actual genre.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely uncompromising survival RPG that refuses to make its hero special — beloved by fans who click with that philosophy, and undercut for years by a specific, still-recurring bug that deletes players' backpacks along with everything inside them.
6.5 / 10
A minimalist, tile-based post-apocalyptic road-trip survival game that splits its review corpus almost perfectly in half over one question: is its unforgiving difficulty fair and tightly balanced, or genuinely broken?
6.5 / 10
A cozy survival game built around a moving train OxyRail (listed on Steam as Oxygen Train) is an Early Access open-world survival and base-building game from OxygenTech Limited, se
6.5 / 10
A surreal, deliberately punishing survival-horror narrative following a doctor's twelve days fighting a mysterious plague, Very Positive across more than 4,600 reviews for genuinely singular atmosphere and storytelling — undercut by widely reported severe performance problems, and by a specific, verifiable fact that two of the three originally planned character routes were spun off into a separate, later-released paid game rather than delivered as part of this one.
6.5 / 10
An Early Access post-apocalyptic co-op raiding game about joining a mutant-hunting detective agency in a world with a distinctly post-Soviet flavour, praised in its earliest, tiny review base for a genuinely addictive "one more raid" loop and a setting that actually shapes the mood rather than sitting in the background.
6.5 / 10
A Neon Arena That Grows Teeth As You Survive Pulse://Void is a synthwave-soaked entry in the bullet-heaven genre popularized by Vampire Survivors: you pilot a small ship (or, in on
6.5 / 10
A large-scale ranching, farming and hunting sim that exited a long Early Access run in 2023, praised for its satisfying core loop and remarkable five-year development history — held back by long-standing vehicle handling jank (only very recently reworked), a persistent animal- health bug, and real reviewer frustration over paid content expansions.
6.5 / 10
A tense, visually stunning remake of the 1999 survival horror classic that nearly every reviewer enjoys playing, undermined almost universally by a campaign reviewers describe as too short and too stripped of the original's content to justify a full-price purchase.
6.5 / 10
Capcom finally brings the original 1996 Resident Evil to Steam in its most complete PC form yet, complete with restored uncut gore, but a new anti-tamper DRM layer undercuts what should have been a flawless victory lap.
6.5 / 10
Brazilian studio The Root Studios, published by Nuntius Games and Vsoo Games, delivers a creature-collector take on the survivors-like genre starring over 20 elemental "Shards," earning warm praise for its art style, character designs and cross-genre ambition from a Very Positive review base, set against a genuinely divided corpus in which the two single most-voted reviews are both detailed, specific negative verdicts on its upgrade and progression design.
6.5 / 10
Seven Sins, One Wanderer, Endless Waves Shardstorm is a $4.99 top-down horde-survivor ARPG that slots itself firmly into the Vampire Survivors-inspired genre while dressing the for
6.5 / 10
