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568 Survival games reviewed and scored, best first.
568 reviews
A co-op survivors-like set in the Stolen Realm universe whose 1.0 launch a large number of reviewers say is functionally identical to the free demo and playtest builds they'd already finished, with marketed content still absent, though a genuinely low price and an actively updating developer soften the backlash for some.
5 / 10
SYMMETRY wraps a survival-management sim in genuinely striking retro-futuristic vector art and a mysterious, half-told sci-fi story. Its own reviewers largely agree the atmosphere is the best thing about it, and just as largely agree the actual click-and-wait management loop underneath is one of the most punishing, repetitive experiences in the genre.
5 / 10
A beautiful, genuinely mysterious Pacific Northwest survival game from a six-person team whose atmosphere and unusually visible developer responsiveness earn real goodwill, undercut by a specific, widely repeated and serious complaint that saves and progress can be wiped outright, alongside severe performance issues even on high-end hardware.
5 / 10
Rick, Daryl, And Michonne Punch Their Way Through A Familiar Brawler The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival is a $19.99 side-scrolling beat 'em up from Odaclick Game Studio, pub
5 / 10
A genuinely underused setting — WWI trench horror — with real atmosphere and sound design, undercut by a short, thin "collect the items while a monster hunts you" loop and a cluster of real performance bugs, despite years of continued developer support.
5 / 10
A free-to-play survival MMORPG whose zombie-apocalypse crafting loop has a genuine, deeply invested fanbase, undercut by a barely-adapted mobile interface and a monetisation structure reviewers document in granular, specific detail — including a viral account of a single player spending over $2,000.
5 / 10
Codebros Studio, a two-person Greek development team, delivers a first-person psychological horror game about a man haunted by a house's buried history, drawing real praise for its atmosphere and jump scares alongside an unusually specific, heavily documented reviewer thread cataloguing direct scene-by-scene similarities to Visage, Outlast, Layers of Fear and other genre touchstones, plus a genuinely split reception over its price relative to a four-to-six-hour runtime.
5 / 10
A demon-hunting Vampire Survivors-like with genuinely satisfying core combat and a strong first couple of hours, undercut by a review sample that repeatedly describes drip-fed content, punishing difficulty scaling, and stability issues that live up to the title a little too literally.
4.9 / 10
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A Co-op Wandering Game About Bad Decisions, Not Heroics When We Arrive is a small co-op adventure from two-person studio Two Pixels UG, built around a premise its own marketing is
4.9 / 10
Troyd Games' post-apocalyptic base-defense strategy game leans hard on a day/night prep-and-survive loop reviewers repeatedly compare to Thronefall, delivering real value at a low price but falling short on build variety and combat balance.
4.8 / 10
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A restaurant-management sim about cooking brains for zombie customers and shooting the impatient ones, whose committed premise is undercut for many players by a rough, sometimes broken full release.
4.7 / 10
An open-world alien-invasion survival sandbox that wears its Project Zomboid influence openly, entering Early Access with a genuinely promising crafting-and-scavenging premise undercut by widespread bugs, punishing AI, and a level of polish reviewers repeatedly say isn't there yet.
4.5 / 10
An Ambitious Pitch: Build Anything, Survive Everything Anymaker asks for a lot up front: design a chassis, wire up an engine, program microcontrollers with a drag-and-drop editor,
4.5 / 10
A moody, well-illustrated pixel-art mining survival game whose marketing implies Factorio-style automation and exploration depth that multiple reviewers say the actual 1-to-3-hour playtime never delivers, with a thin crafting system, screenshots reviewers call misleading, and a save-system bug that has cost at least one player real progress.
4.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic reskin of developer FreeMind's own hit Farmer's Life, swapping the horse and hand-sown fields for a legged robotic tractor and a seed-drone, and landing at a Mixed rating with its harshest reviews arriving in the week it left Early Access rather than the months before.
4.5 / 10
An enormously ambitious solo-developed voxel-free sandbox survival game, often compared to a 3D Terraria set in the Cthulhu mythos, whose real creative potential is drowned out at launch by a near-universal chorus of reviewers saying it should have released as Early Access, documenting severe bugs, punishing early-game balance, a cluttered UI, and a price cut that angered buyers who'd already missed their refund window.
4.5 / 10
Stranded, scripted, and compared to a much better game Desperate Place puts you in the boots of a crew member waking up on a damaged colonization starship, stranded on a hostile al
4.5 / 10
Your Car Is the Character Into the End (of the World) belongs to the vehicle-survival lineage kicked off by The Long Drive, one reviewer names that lineage directly, build a car fr
4.5 / 10
A Ten-Minute Homage To Dagon Isle of Flesh, released free on Steam August 31, 2026 by the small studio Nota Art, is exactly what its own store page says it is: a short, narrative-d
4.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive bullet-hell crossed with party-based mercenary management, backed by an enthusiastic Early Access community, whose developer went quiet after a July 2024 update and left recent reviewers describing a stale, sometimes broken game with no meta-progression to soften its brutal difficulty spikes.
4.5 / 10
A hardcore post-apocalyptic survival MMO with real base-building and PvP depth, Mixed at 67 percent across more than 23,000 reviews — split not so much over the survival gameplay itself as over a remarkably consistent, years-long pattern of long-tenured players accusing the development team of banning critics from its own community spaces.
4.5 / 10
A budget horde-survivor wearing Pathfinder's licensed skin over a thin, repetitive core that even its own most-upvoted positive review calls "meh out of 10" — and updates stopped seven weeks after launch.
4.5 / 10
A free, solo-developed bullet-heaven in the Vampire Survivors mould whose reviewers consistently describe a workable, even promising foundation buried under genuinely broken balance, unfixed bugs, and a support window that closed roughly two months after launch and never reopened.
4.5 / 10
A VR-only zombie survival RPG whose own marketing promises an open world in the vein of DayZ, but whose reviewers consistently describe something closer to a linear, fetch-quest-heavy arcade shooter with zombies that spawn out of bare ground.
4.5 / 10
