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568 Survival games reviewed and scored, best first.
568 reviews
A brutal, faction-driven zombie-apocalypse survival RPG set in a Texan civil war, built around body-part damage, wall-penetrating gunfire and dismemberment-heavy combat rather than dice-roll hit detection — a tiny but unanimously positive early Early Access review sample, backed by achievement data confirming all four questlines are genuinely completable.
5.5 / 10
A visually stunning Dead Space spiritual successor that never fully recovered from a disastrous December 2022 performance launch — and whose save-corruption bugs, reported by reviewers three years apart, still haven't been fully resolved.
5.5 / 10
A Norse-mythology survival action RPG built for up to ten players racing giant seasonal invasions before Ragnarök, Mostly Positive across more than 17,000 reviews for a genuinely inventive structure — undercut by a specific, bizarre UI flaw that can permanently delete a character with one misclick, and a mandatory always-online requirement even for solo play.
5.5 / 10
An ambitious cyberpunk idle extraction-shooter with real depth for the players it hooks, built with generative AI the developer discloses openly on its own Steam page — and a UI messy enough that plenty of buyers never get past the tutorial to find out if it clicks.
5.5 / 10
One Player Dies First, and That's the Whole Idea WE ARE SO DEAD, a $7.99 Early Access co-op horror release from solo developer REAL PLAYERS launched on August 17, 2026, builds
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous, Breath of the Wild-indebted survival roguelite about a shipwrecked warrior sailing between procedural islands — praised for its art and boat-building, undercut by a identity crisis between story, survival and permadeath that most players never resolve, since fewer than one in eleven ever finishes it.
5.5 / 10
A One-Man Live-Action Survival Film, Shot Alone In The Turkish Wilderness Wordless Forest, a solo project from developer Dogus Cagrici, released on Steam on August 24, 2026, at $9.
5.5 / 10
A Hurricane Survival Story With Real Ambition Category 6 asks a question survival games rarely bother with: what happens after the storm, not during a zombie outbreak or a nuclear
5.4 / 10
A survival game about outliving a plague Nested Lands drops players onto an island overrun by bandits and a spreading plague, tasking them with scavenging, fighting, and slowly reb
5.4 / 10
An Argentine Conspiracy Turned Survival Horror Proyecto Huemul is a first-person survival horror game built directly on one of the strangest true stories in Argentine history: in 1
5.4 / 10
Liquidating Zombie Hordes for a Corporate Afterlife Insurer R.I.P. - Reincarnation Insurance Program is a top-down bullet-heaven shooter from WarmCore Studio that grafts Diablo-sty
5.4 / 10
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A Necromantic Extraction Shooter on a Bombed-Out Planet 33 Days till Extraction is a top-down sci-fi action RPG from Three Whales Studio that fuses roguelike run structure with ext
5.3 / 10
Solo developer Radical Byte's mash-up of base defense, tower defense, roguelite mining, and mech-piloting shows real ambition and a responsive developer, but reviewers report crashes, unclear signposting, and clunky inventory management holding it back from its potential.
5.3 / 10
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Kervado's free-to-play survivor-style tower defense has a genuinely addictive core loop and devs who responded fast to a rocky launch, but reviewers consistently describe a missing tutorial, narrow build balance, and pay-to-win monetisation holding it back.
5.1 / 10
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A tile-based, permadeath MMORPG built and coded almost entirely by one developer since 2017, released on Steam a day before this review with no cash shop of any kind, a single Frankfurt server capped at 500 players — and, at the moment of checking, three people actually on it.
5 / 10
A genuinely original colony-sim/tower-defense hybrid about building a fortress on the back of a walking World Tree — sticky enough to hook dedicated fans for hundreds of hours, but shipped to 1.0 with a game-breaking defense bug and balance problems the developer appears to have stopped fixing entirely.
5 / 10
A ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remaster of one of survival gaming's biggest franchises, sold as a paid upgrade that a huge share of its own reviewers say carried over the original's bugs while demanding hardware far beyond what the visual improvements justify.
5 / 10
A cheap, surprisingly playable third-person looter-shooter with a genuinely fun core loop for those who stick with it, badly undercut by widespread bugs, a tedious item-loading system, and incomplete English translation that leaves English-language reviewers far harsher than the wider multilingual audience.
5 / 10
Cyanide Time Games' first-person survival horror game earns genuine praise for its voice acting, atmosphere, and performance, but reviewers are near-unanimous that Chapter One is too short -- and several are already wary of where the episodic pricing goes from here.
5 / 10
Read review of Camp Hollow Review: A Polished Mascot-Horror Debut, Over Almost Before It Starts
A solo developer's 21-day, AI-assisted experiment that welds a card-driven survival day-loop onto Vampire Survivors-style crowd combat — playable, oddly ambitious for its scope, and readable only if you know Simplified Chinese.
5 / 10
Pocketpair's first big multiplayer survival-crafting sandbox, Mostly Positive across nearly 18,000 reviews for genuinely inventive systems — and the subject of a years-long, very well documented community grievance that the studio deprioritised it after Palworld's success, which Pocketpair itself directly apologised for in a remarkable anniversary post published essentially the same week as this review.
5 / 10
A Vampire Survivors-style horde survivor with a hub town and RPG progression layered on top, whose Early Access development stopped dead months before an abrupt 1.0 launch that shipped roughly half of what its own roadmap promised.
5 / 10
Solo developer Reuben Games delivers a long-anticipated cosmic-horror road-trip survival game pitched as "Grand Theft Cthulhu," earning consistent, specific praise for its retro synthwave atmosphere, art direction and writing from a genuinely divided review base, set against a dominant, heavily repeated complaint that its launch build feels closer to an early access alpha than a finished, full-price release.
5 / 10
A budget co-op horror extraction game about looting a haunted graveyard from a flying pirate ship, filed under "Massively Multiplayer" on Steam despite capping every session at six friends with no public lobby browser — a genre tag its own launch-day reviewers are already pointing out doesn't hold up.
5 / 10
