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568 Survival games reviewed and scored, best first.
568 reviews
A tiny-team open-world revenge RPG chasing Kingdom Come: Deliverance-sized ambition on a fraction of the budget, whose genuinely large scope of survival, stealth, combat and settlement systems is repeatedly undercut by a buggy, seemingly under-tested launch state.
4.5 / 10
A charming, approachable penguin city-builder whose core progression is gated behind a live leaderboard ranking against other players and a reputation stat that decays over time — a bizarre design choice for a single-player game that reviewers say locks out anyone who didn't start early, on a game the developer stopped updating in December 2024.
4.5 / 10
A NZ$10.49 idle-summon-and-defend game from solo Chinese developer CMY that has spent eight months on sale with almost no trace of a community — one lifetime Steam review, zero concurrent players at time of writing, and a store page whose own data (an identical icon on all seven achievements, a machine-translated description, mismatched tags) argues for caution more clearly than any review score could.
4.3 / 10
A striking-looking body-horror survival sim with a hollow core underneath — most reviewers, including fans, describe an idle grind with no real ending or consequence — and a tonal concern raised independently by more than one reviewer that this review could not verify but takes seriously enough to flag plainly.
4.3 / 10
A Solo Developer's Debut Survival Game Built Around a Statue Voldark drops a lone survivor into a dangerous forest overrun with mutant creatures, tasking them with the genre
4.3 / 10
A genuinely appealing top-down bunker-survival concept undercut by severe ammo scarcity that can become permanently unrecoverable, real progression-breaking bugs, and a tutorial barely half of buyers ever finish — despite one documented rebalance patch that didn't fully resolve the complaints that followed it.
4.1 / 10
A co-op game whose co-op doesn't work Broventure: The Wild Co-op pitches itself directly, in its own title, as a bullet-heaven survivors-like built around co-op play: band toge
4 / 10
Playing the Pest, Not the Exterminator Cockroach Simulation is a small survival horror game from solo studio WIZWIN with a genuinely unusual premise: rather than hunting or fleeing
4 / 10
Team Soda's solo-focused, Tarkov-inspired extraction shooter about scavenging ducks became one of October 2025's biggest surprise hits, earning a Very Positive review sample for nailing loot-and-extract tension without PvP toxicity, though it's dogged by a genuine malicious-mod controversy and a conspicuous lack of controller support.
4 / 10
A solo-developed survival game promising a journey from taming dinosaurs to building a Dyson sphere, undercut by detailed, independently corroborated reports that several of its levels are unmodified Unreal Marketplace demo scenes — and by a sequel announced five months after launch while the original sat unfixed.
4 / 10
A cheap, small-team open-world survival shooter with a genuinely promising opening hour undercut by a short, thin main quest, persistent bugs, and a widely repeated reviewer claim that it closely copies an earlier Epic Games Store title, all against a development record that appears to have stopped shortly after its full release.
4 / 10
A PS1-styled Mystery Dungeon roguelike wearing a Resident Evil 1 mansion as its skin, whose large, Very Positive review sample repeatedly praises its love-letter genre mashup and retro presentation while sharing consistent, specific complaints about a punishing, post-launch-nerfed difficulty curve that Steam's own achievement data confirms most players never push past.
4 / 10
A NZ$1.59 zombie-themed idle clicker with a defined 50-level endpoint, a prestige system added by later patches, and a review corpus that's split between genuine affection for its low-poly charm and recognition that it's one of at least four near-identical releases from the same developer in 2022.
4 / 10
A Wizard on a Timer, Not a Health Bar I Have Only MP is a casual, wave-survival action game with a mechanical hook right there in the title: instead of a conventional health bar go
4 / 10
A simplified, buggier follow-up to the well-regarded Mars Colony: Challenger, with real crashing and missing-feature complaints and no updates recorded since 2016 — and a recent reviewer tribute revealing the game's solo developer passed away in December 2025 after a long illness, which this review treats with the care that context deserves.
4 / 10
A raw, unusually specific life-simulation about climbing out of poverty and debt that hooked a large early audience with real narrative ambition, before its developer went quiet in early 2023 and left the game listed on Steam but currently impossible to purchase, with the reason unresolved.
4 / 10
A Small, Sincere Entry in a Crowded Genre SCP The Beginning drops players into a collapsing containment facility, tasked with exploring restricted sectors, reading unreliable in-wo
4 / 10
A Deep-Sea Pitch That Barely Gets Wet Submerge, a $9.99 co-op horror release from solo-ish studio Neuron Activation, entered Early Access on August 17, 2026, promising a team of fr
4 / 10
A promising Dark and Darker-style melee extraction shooter set against zombies in a crumbling skyscraper, whose combat and loot systems draw real, specific praise, but whose Early Access life has been dominated by a documented, developer-confirmed collapse of its live-service ambitions, team downsizing and a forced pivot away from the PvPvE structure it launched with.
4 / 10
A Journalist, a Farm, and a Demon in the Dark Until Done casts you as Beyza, a journalist investigating the disappearance of three children at the isolated Silver Lake Farm, armed
4 / 10
A Norse-themed action roguelike from Team Kernel in which you fight relentless waves of monsters and collect the blessings of the gods, Mostly Negative across 36 English reviews for widely repeated, specific accusations that it closely copies Death Must Die, alongside complaints about AI-generated art and an unfinished, Early-Access-in-all-but-name state.
3.5 / 10
A competent, good-looking Greek-mythology spin on the Vampire Survivors formula that both of its early reviewers liked -- though with only a handful of reviews on record, its long-term depth is still an open question.
3.5 / 10
A first-person prison survival sim that launched into Early Access on 5 August 2026 with a broken opening objective — every one of its first user reviews describes the morning roll call softlocking progress, and a hotfix the next day only partly closed the gap between the pitch and the build.
3.5 / 10
A promising Lovecraftian premise, undone in the execution SAVE puts players in the boots of a PMC operative contracted by Miskatonic University to investigate the hidden secrets of
3.5 / 10
