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568 Survival games reviewed and scored, best first.
568 reviews
A horde-survival roguelite that makes you actually fight, forcing constant swaps between melee and ranged weapons against enemies built to resist whichever one you're not holding — a deliberate answer to the genre's reputation for playing itself.
7.5 / 10
Gambling With Your Life at the Crimson Casino Casino Casualty takes the FNAF formula of being trapped overnight with hostile animatronics and swaps the usual security-office surviv
7.5 / 10
A Vampire Survivors-style bullet-heaven squeezed into js13k's 13-kilobyte limit, starring a black cat that auto-attacks waves of enemies while you drag it around a flower field — and the drag-to-move touch control genuinely works.
7.5 / 10
A Korean-folklore-themed bullet-heaven roguelite that entered Early Access after roughly two and a half years of private playtesting, already showing unusually confident art direction and a distinctive cultural setting — with one concrete, currently reported performance issue around its dash mechanic.
7.5 / 10
A Decade-Later Sequel to a Beloved Free Mod Codename CURE II launched on Steam on July 24, 2026, from a two-person team, developer Raptor Byte and publisher indie.io, and like its
7.5 / 10
An open-world zombie survival game with a genuine cult following that grew after release — launched on PC in 2021 with one of the most severe, best-documented data-collection controversies this library has seen, since resolved with an opt-out but still shaping how the game is remembered.
7.5 / 10
A js13k 2022 top-down survival shooter, in the vein of Vampire Survivors, that ships a genuine dual-virtual-stick mobile control scheme alongside WASD-and-mouse — both tested here and both work exactly as the developers' own instructions describe.
7.5 / 10
A Corporate Gas Leak, a Lot of Zombies, and Something Much Older Underneath Deep Sheol drops you into the boots of Special Agent Seth, sent to investigate why a corporate mining fa
7.5 / 10
A Reality Show You Can't Vote Yourself Off Of Dolls: The Hunt drops up to four players into a warped, surreal world where contestants in an inescapable reality show are hunted
7.5 / 10
Techland's return to Kyle Crane and the original Dying Light formula, widely, specifically praised as a genuine "return to form" after the divisive Dying Light 2 — backed by an unusually clean, well-optimised launch and an explicit, kept promise to ship without microtransactions — undercut for a real minority of players by parkour-unfriendly map design and a genuine, documented fairness controversy over how a later Definitive Edition treated existing Deluxe Edition owners.
7.5 / 10
A survival-automation game that makes terraforming the actual win condition instead of a late-game side quest, tying every conveyor belt and machine you build to a planet visibly coming back to life around it.
7.5 / 10
A sprawling, deeply systemic roguelike sandbox RPG from the solo creator of the cult classic Elona, updated almost daily -- one of the densest, most addictive Early Access RPGs on Steam for the players who click with it, and a genuinely confusing wall for anyone who arrives without a wiki tab open.
7.5 / 10
A short, devastating survival game about a mother fox protecting her cubs in a world humanity has ruined -- overwhelmingly praised for its art and emotional weight, with a real, specific complaint about a rushed ending that even many of its most moved fans share.
7.5 / 10
A voxel survival game that welds on a real RPG skill tree and dares you to dig, sculpt and build inside a world that is actively trying to kill you on a clock. Two and a half years into Early Access, with a 1.0 date finally on the calendar, the question is whether the fog and the talent tree were ever really talking to each other.
7.5 / 10
A co-op liminal-space horror game that rode the Backrooms internet craze into Early Access in 2022, spent three years earning a huge audience on atmosphere and jump-scares with friends, and is still being actively patched onto new consoles four years later.
7.5 / 10
Bethesda's sprawling open-world RPG has weathered two separate, nearly identical controversies seven years apart — Creation Club's paid mods in 2017, and a 2024 "next-gen update" that broke almost everything the modding community had built to fix it.
7.5 / 10
A medieval survival city builder from the makers of Grim Dawn that spent three years building the deepest farming and disease system in the genre, then left Early Access in October 2025 to a Very Positive Steam rating and a still-vocal minority saying the milestone patch didn't fix what was wrong with it.
7.5 / 10
A gorgeous, genuinely unsettling remake of one of horror's most beloved ghost stories, held back from greatness by divisive combat rework and persistent controller and visibility bugs.
7.5 / 10
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A three-person team's follow-up to The Deadseat turns cult-horror hunting into a tense card-and-map puzzle, though Act 1 is only a third of the promised story.
7.5 / 10
Dante is a girl, Hell is a bullet heaven, and the deck-building actually works. The most beautiful thing in the genre right now runs into a difficulty wall at the second circle that has stopped six players in seven — and the studio is patching it weekly.
7.5 / 10
Waking Up in the Hab Cluster HOPE 01 opens with its unnamed protagonist waking inside a decaying underground facility, sent in on a vague request to find something called HAB 01. F
7.5 / 10
An Early Access survival shooter that blends looter-shooter loot systems with flexible tower defence, tasking you with defending a rocket project against zombie hordes during an acid rain apocalypse, drawing an early Very Positive reception for its layered base-building and mercenary systems, tempered by one detailed critical account calling out weak enemy AI and low-effort tutorial art.
7.5 / 10
A squad-based open-world RPG with no main quest, no level cap on how far you can fall, and an engine that has been fighting its own interface since a Steam Early Access launch in March 2013 — five and a half years before the "release date" most storefronts show. Its systemic freedom is genuinely unmatched; its performance and UI never caught up to the ambition.
7.5 / 10
Tripwire Interactive's wave-based co-op horde shooter, grown from a 2005 Unreal Tournament 2004 mod into a standalone genre landmark, still draws deeply personal devotion from a community that's stuck with it for well over a decade — tempered by a specific, well- corroborated complaint that later paid weapon-pack DLC tilted balance in a way free content updates never did.
7.5 / 10
