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568 Survival games reviewed and scored, best first.
568 reviews
A free PSX-style survival horror game set in a deep-sea prison where cutting off a monster's limb makes it multiply — reviewed on its complete 16-review sample, which splits cleanly between reviewers charmed by its atmosphere and reviewers who call it an unfinished alpha.
6 / 10
A stylish co-op survival roguelite about wizards who shoot rather than cast, widely described at launch as feeling rushed and early-access-like — and, as of June 2024, permanently frozen in that state after developer Galvanic Games officially disbanded.
6 / 10
Climbing a Black Tower With an Anime Battle-Girl Roster YGGDRA: SURVIVOR launched June 24, 2026 from the small studio BD, spinning off the character roster of the studio's earl
6 / 10
A post-apocalyptic survival-RPG from the Danganronpa team, with writing and mature thematic depth reviewers consistently rank among Spike Chunsoft's best — trapped inside a clunky, menu-heavy dungeon crawler that even the story's biggest fans call the game's clear weak point.
6 / 10
A budget-priced mining-and-horde-survival hybrid earns real praise for its addictive early hours, but a recurring chorus of reviewers says the game's content runs dry well before its prestige and roguelike systems have anything meaningful to offer.
5.9 / 10
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A solo first-person survival horror game about a lighthouse keeper stranded on a fog-shrouded island, chasing fuel cans and fuses to keep the light burning while something unseen watches from the dark.
5.9 / 10
A solo-developer survival RPG that stacks base building, faction reputation, dungeon crawling and an 11-category weapon system onto an escalating chain of islands — an enormous feature list for the price, but one that remains almost entirely unreviewed nearly two years after launch.
5.8 / 10
A Time-Travel Bullet Heaven With Real Personality BARD'S FAULT slots into the crowded Vampire Survivors-style genre with a co-op-first twist: friends fight back-to-back against
5.8 / 10
A backpack-management twist on the bullet-heaven formula Last Mage is an Early Access bullet-heaven roguelite from Weird Johnny Studio that layers spellcrafting and inventory manag
5.8 / 10
A gorgeous isometric jungle escape built for js13k 2024, judged 19th of the whole field for graphics — but its core "mishap" twist confused most of the competition's own judges, and the game is nearly silent throughout.
5.8 / 10
A cozy-crossed-with-roguelite survival RPG from Grey November Games that lands to a genuinely Mixed reception — reviewers who love its Zelda-like exploration sit against others who found its roguelite, town-building, and progression systems shallow or confusing at launch.
5.8 / 10
A solo-developed found-footage horror game that drops a lost teenager into the Backrooms, hunted by a sound-sensitive entity — scary for its first twenty minutes, then a jumpscare-heavy fetch quest for the rest.
5.8 / 10
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A budget-priced sky colony sim that blends RimWorld-style base management with skyblock construction and light combat, earning genuine affection from a small pool of reviewers while one detailed complaint about controls and translation stands out as a clear warning sign.
5.7 / 10
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The first legal English release of a genuine 1995 horror pioneer, widely described by reviewers as an emulated ROM with a launcher rather than a true remaster — a specific, obtrusive cutscene-unlock popup and missing audio settings draw the sharpest complaints, though this review confirmed the developer rapidly patched several launch-crash issues within weeks.
5.7 / 10
A roguelike where players ride giant turtles into battle, switching between shooting hordes of enemies and gathering resources — a genuinely fresh hybrid undercut by fiddly hitboxes, heavy RNG, and thin meta-progression.
5.6 / 10
A 3D bullet-heaven, standing out on visuals alone Achilles: Survivor sends players into mythic Greece to fight endless hordes as a demigod warrior, building defensive structures an
5.5 / 10
A VR-supported open-world survival game whose entire, small early review sample dates from its first three days — a window that turns out to mostly predate two patches directly fixing nearly every specific bug those reviews describe.
5.5 / 10
A network-survival thriller in which the player controls a rogue AI hiding inside a smart fridge, infiltrating household devices and manipulating a family to avoid deletion, drawing a Mixed reception split sharply between praise for its unusual premise and mechanics and pointed criticism of undisclosed or under-disclosed generative-AI use in its own writing and assets.
5.5 / 10
A backpacking adventure RPG about hiking after a lost brother through gorgeous, hand-crafted landscapes — undercut badly enough by bugs and janky controls that even many of its own fans hedge their recommendation.
5.5 / 10
A reimagining of the 1992 survival-horror pioneer, returning to Derceto Manor with Resident Evil-inspired third-person combat and a Lovecraftian mystery voiced by David Harbour and Jodie Comer, whose strong atmosphere and setting win real defenders even as a large, consistent complaint argues its linear structure, clunky combat, and technical rough edges fall well short of both the genre's modern standard-bearers and the classic it's remaking.
5.5 / 10
A beautiful, hostile hole in the ground Anoxia Station drops you into a subterranean mining operation on a dying world, tasked with extracting resources, managing a crew, and confr
5.5 / 10
A solo-developed Early Access survival-management game rooted in the Chinese "apocalypse rebirth" web-novel fantasy — reborn seven days before the end of the world with foreknowledge to hoard supplies and build a self-sufficient RV — whose distinctive premise draws real interest from its mostly Simplified-Chinese review sample, but whose execution is dogged by persistent complaints of mobile-port UI, real-time wait-gated upgrades, and bugs that erase progress.
5.5 / 10
One of survival gaming's defining sandbox games, whose Mostly Positive 80% across 332,096 reviews now sits under a live, furious controversy — official servers sunset in 2023 to push players toward a paid Unreal Engine 5 remaster after reviewers cite an archived tweet promising that exact upgrade would be free, and a 2025 update reviewers say broke years of mods, maps and communities on the way out.
5.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic 3D colony sim from the team behind RimWorld's Combat Extended mod that launched into Early Access far rougher than its years of hype promised — genuine game-breaking bugs and missing basics, offset by real community goodwill toward developers open about the production troubles that forced an early, underfunded launch.
5.5 / 10
