Try to escape an open world island full of dangerous animals. Compete against other online players left alone in the wilderness or even the vastness of space. Play classic survival games like Minecraft where you have to craft useful tools and weapons from the resources you find around you.
The most popular survival games are about shooting other players and zombies in an open world set in a Minecraft-like pixel environment. These arenas can be a buildings, an island or a space ship. Just like in Fortnite it's common for multiplayer teams to have to build their base and defend it day and night.
An open world, the ability to craft items or weapons and even the option of co-op multiplayer gameplay make our free survival games so popular and fun. A simple survival mode may be a quick-fix for a moment but it mostly just devolves into a last man standing shooting match as your run around the map. Zombies and other scary monsters are an important part of popular online survival games.
You have to shoot your way through a horde of creepy enemies, huge dinosaurs and pixel zombies. All while making sure you can handle all other dangers surrounding you. Status: Released April 24, Link : Official site. Frostpunk is a blend of city-building, society simulation, and survival in a grim and frozen world. With a handful of cold, hungry, unhappy people, you'll need to construct a working city inside a snow-filled crater heated only by a massive coal furnace. Gather resources, hunt for food, and manage your citizens by giving them hope for the future.
It's a harsh and beautiful survival game that confronts you with difficult choices at every turn. Further reading: Frostpunk review: an incredibly stylish and addictive survival management game. In a sentence: A brutal and hyper-realistic shooter all about hoarding and managing loot Status: In beta Link: Official site. Escape from Tarkov is a savage evolution of survival games with just a pinch of battle royale thrown in for flavor. Instead of playing in a persistent world, you spawn on a map with a few other players and several dozen enemy NPCs.
To survive, you have to reach an exfiltration zone on the other end of the map, but you also get to keep anything you loot to sell on a player-driven marketplace or use in subsequent rounds. It's a lot like poker only way scarier. What really sells Tarkov, though, is it's hyper-realistic gunplay and ridiculously deep gun customization.
Further reading: How I became an arms dealer in Escape from Tarkov. Sounds strange to say it, but this fantasy RPG where you can never actually die is one of the best recent survival games around. In Outward you're not only challenged by mystical monsters but the world itself, in which you must keep yourself fed, hydrated, and healthy.
In the arid deserts heat will sap your endurance, in the marshy swamplands the water can poison you, and with no fast-travel or quest markers or even your own location shown on your map, each excursion is an exercise in preparation, patience, and survival. It's been five years of Early Access, but RimWorld has finally reached version 1.
In this management and survival sim you oversee a colony of randomly generated people stranded on a procedural alien planet. Expand the base, keep your colonists healthy and sane, and deal with disasters thrown your way by RimWorld's AI director, which can include anything from disease outbreaks to alien attacks to weather events. The toughest challenge may be just making your colonists simply get along with each other: each one has a distinct personality, desires, and moods.
Further reading : Making a clan of cannibals with RimWorld's scenario editor. It sounds almost idyllic, floating through the world serenely on a raft, building and expanding upon it as you fish flotsam from the ocean with a grappling hook. There are sharks, though.
Hungry ones, and if they can't eat you they'll settle for eating your floating home. You'll need to somehow find food and fresh water while keeping your raft afloat and growing. Luckily, you can play co-op with a pal and double your chances for survival. Further reading : How Raft conquered the seas of Steam. In a sentence: Atmospheric survival in a Canadian post-apocalypse. Status: Released August 1, Link : Official site.
With a focus on atmosphere and environmental survival, The Long Dark stands out in an increasingly crowded genre. You play as a bush pilot stranded in the frozen wilderness after a mysterious global calamity. There are no zombies, no mutants, and no other players: it's just you fighting against the elements, the wildlife, and your own human fragility. Further reading: Survival gets serious in The Long Dark.
In a sentence: Keep a handful of 3D-printed colonists alive in a dangerous and expanding underground colony Status: Released on July 30, Link : Official site. The best games are those that are easy to learn and difficult to master. Oxygen Not Included fits that bill: jumping into it and learning the basics is a snap, but fully understanding it takes a lot of time and effort. While it's adorable, the colony-builder is also deep and complex as it simulates its harsh subterranean environment.
You'll need to manage your colonists hunger, happiness, cleanliness, and naturally their clean and breathable oxygen as they dig out caverns, gather resources, build machinery, and try to turn a harsh environment into a comfortable underground home. Further reading: Oxygen Not Included is a deep and complex sim that's also easy to jump into.
In a sentence: Survival, crafting, and building—with dinosaurs. Status : Released August 29, Link : Official site. Dropped nearly nude on an expansive map filled with dinosaurs, you'll have to contend with extreme heat and cold, starvation and dehydration, and fellow humans though you can play solo as well.
Craft weapons and gear, build a base, tame and ride dinosaurs, and join with or battle other players. Further reading: Why Ark's best mount is a damn frog. In a sentence: Survive a cartoon wilderness filled with beasts and monsters. With charming artwork yet punishing gameplay, Don't Starve is an addictive challenge and one of the best survival experiences out there and in a rare turn of events, one of the few games here to graduate from Early Access.
The crafting is complex and satisfying as you attempt to survive busy days and deadly nights. Fight and eat animals, practice both science and magic, and keep an eye on your mental health so you don't go insane. The standalone expansion Don't Starve Together even lets you play with pals. Further reading: Don't Starve: Shipwrecked is a breath of fresh Nope, that's a hurricane.
In a sentence: Real-time strategy roguelike in which you explore creepy abandoned spaceships using drones.
Duskers may not feel entirely like a survival game, given that it's a real-time strategy roguelike about steering a fleet of drones through spooky derelict spaceships. But the reason you're exploring is to scavenge parts, collect fuel, and repair and upgrade your drones so you can continue traveling through space in hopes of finding safety and an answer to the unexplained event that seems to have left the universe uninhabited by humans, at least.
Its a tense and nail-biting experience as you must keep moving through increasingly dangerous situations in hopes of gathering enough resources to survive. Further reading: Duskers review.
In a sentence: Online zombie survival in the Eastern European countryside. Yes, it was a long road out of Early Access, DayZ's technically still isn't done. But the survival elements of DayZ are strong, with complex nutrition, hydration, and health systems that go beyond merely eating, drinking, and bandaging wounds. Scavenge a sprawling and decaying persistent open world, engage in tense interactions with other players, customize weapons and craft gear, and try not to die: if you do, you start again with nothing.
In a sentence: Terraria in space. From visiting distant galaxies in your customized starship to building a home and farming crops, Starbound satisfies as both a sprawling survival adventure and a cozy pastime.
The 2D pixelated sandbox is a joy to explore, and along the way you'll meet friendly alien NPCs and battle surprisingly tough bosses. There's a story-based campaign and side-quests, but no real feeling of pressure to complete them except at your leisure.
You can also play with friends on dedicated servers or simply by inviting them into your game via Steam.
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