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568 Survival games reviewed and scored, best first.
568 reviews
A deliberately absurdist FPS-meets-tower-defense hybrid that turns out to have genuinely satisfying gunplay and upgrade progression underneath its meme-fuelled premise — cheap, short, and overwhelmingly well-reviewed, though balance collapses hard once a run is fully upgraded.
7.5 / 10
A solo developer's co-op scavenging horror-comedy that became one of the defining games of its era, still funny and still tense two years on — while its own reviews increasingly argue about whether the person who made it has moved on from it.
7.5 / 10
A free, solo-developed survival horror love letter to Resident Evil and Silent Hill, following a streamer pulled into a game-within-a-game — rough around the edges and occasionally buggy, but written and paced with a sincerity that has stunned its review base for costing nothing.
7.5 / 10
A widely acclaimed post-apocalyptic shooter whose negative reviews cluster around two distinct, dateable events rather than the game's own design — a 2019 review-bombing tied to Metro Exodus's Epic Games Store exclusivity, and a larger, more recent wave of genuine modern- system compatibility problems that this review found dominating 2025 and 2026 far more than any complaint about the game itself.
7.5 / 10
Barrel Smash Studios' two-person Early Access debut drowns the world and asks you to build a colony on whatever's still floating — rafts, sinking islands, shark attacks and a corporate conspiracy buried in scavenged bunkers, all wrapped around a Rimworld-flavoured survivor sim.
7.5 / 10
Defend the Core, Build the Beat Oscillon is a $4.99 arcade survival game from Test Stack Studio, built around a simple, hypnotic loop: a paddle-like arc rotates around a central co
7.5 / 10
Six years in Early Access, and the 1.0 landed this week. You play a broke shipbreaker with a loan and a flying coffin, building a ship out of salvage one bolt at a time. Nothing else does what it does — and its own most devoted players think it needed another year.
7.5 / 10
A haunting, atmospheric car-survival roguelike whose single biggest obstacle to a wider audience isn't its horror or its driving physics — it's a save system that a large, consistent share of reviewers say makes the game genuinely incompatible with an interrupted life.
7.5 / 10
A co-op ocean survival game about building a floating home from scavenged debris while fending off sharks, Very Positive across more than 130,000 reviews — a genuinely excellent multiplayer experience overshadowed in late 2022 by a publicly disclosed, remotely exploitable security vulnerability, since patched, and a recurring complaint that its late-game story arc trades open building for linear jumping puzzles.
7.5 / 10
A notoriously unforgiving survival-platformer casting the player as a small, vulnerable slugcat navigating a fully simulated predator-prey ecosystem, Very Positive across more than 30,000 reviews for a genuinely singular, uncompromising design vision — undercut by a near-universal pattern of reviewers, even admirers, describing its difficulty and opacity as crossing from earned challenge into disorienting frustration for a large share of players.
7.5 / 10
A physics-driven co-op extraction horror that wears its Lethal Company debt openly and still carved out its own identity — helped, oddly, by a store banner so deliberately ugly that half its own reviews open by apologising for it.
7.5 / 10
Base-Building Survival, Now With Teeth Repterra takes the wave-survival base-building formula popularized by They Are Billions and asks a simple question: what if the endless horde
7.5 / 10
Jagex takes twenty-five years of RuneScape skill icons and welds them onto a Valheim-shaped survival loop. Fifteen months into Early Access, with a 1.0 date now on the calendar, the question is whether the skilling actually survived the move or just changed clothes.
7.5 / 10
Vampire Survivors Meets Star Control, in Seven-Minute Bursts Seven Suns of Orion takes the now-familiar bullet-heaven formula, survive, harvest, upgrade, repeat, and bolts on a gen
7.5 / 10
A visually extraordinary, boldly original entry in Konami's horror franchise — trading the series' familiar American fog town for 1960s rural Japan, with a story from acclaimed writer Ryukishi07 and a score featuring series composer Akira Yamaoka — undercut by a combat system that reviewers on both sides of the recommendation line agree fights against the psychological dread the series has always been known for.
7.5 / 10
Endnight's sequel to The Forest is the best-looking survival-horror island you can build a base on, and its rockiest reviews — mostly written in the first weeks after launch — argued a beautiful map was hiding surprisingly little to actually do. Recent sentiment suggests the gap between the two has narrowed since.
7.5 / 10
A Bullet Heaven That Went 3D and Stuck the Landing Sovereign's End launched June 23, 2026 from small studio NQR Games Inc., taking the "survivors-like" bullet-heaven
7.5 / 10
A first-person psychological horror game where the player's actual voice, spoken into a microphone, is the weapon against a possessing demon, earning enthusiastic launch praise for its genuinely novel mechanic and atmosphere, tempered by reports of punishing precision demands and a small early bug.
7.5 / 10
A village builder where everything — villagers, berries, houses, monsters — is a card on a table, and you craft by dragging one onto another. Twelve dollars, 96% positive, genuinely inventive. Then your table fills up and there is no way to automate anything.
7.5 / 10
A co-op dwarven mine-by-day, defend-by-night roguelite that arrived in Early Access with 100,000 wishlists behind it and immediately delivered on the hype — reviewers keep shouting Rock and Stone, and the one real complaint is that a single class is currently doing all the digging.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely excellent, atmospheric successor to one of survival gaming's most beloved titles, selling two million copies in twelve hours — whose launch was immediately overshadowed by a well-documented controversy over an unusually restrictive EULA from publisher Krafton, set against a pre-existing, publicly reported dispute over developer bonuses that the community rallied around in real time.
7.5 / 10
A first-person open-world RPG built openly in the shape of Skyrim, but set in a bleaker, more literary Arthurian world where night itself turns hostile — ambitious, well-written and visibly under-budgeted in the faces of the people telling its story.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely frightening co-op horror game that's 93.9% positive — and whose most invested players, with sixty-hour averages, are now leaving negative reviews over the studio's use of AI-generated art.
7.5 / 10
A base-building, Factorio-flavoured action RPG that launched in October 2021 to strong acclaim, then spent nearly four years failing to deliver a promised co-op mode -- and finally did, in August 2025, bundled with a loot rework substantial enough to spark a fresh wave of complaints from the veterans who'd waited for it.
7.5 / 10
