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Symmetry
Adventure 20 February 2018
An independent Polish game developed by Sleepless Clinic. The players are tasked with taking care of a research team that crash landed on an alien planet covered with ice. The players must make sure that the researchers survive. In order to achieve this goal, they must satisfy their basic needs by providing them with food and rest. They must also fix the broken ship.
SOS
Action canceled
A multiplayer survival game played from the first-person view and representing the genre known as battle royale. Sixteen players are taken to an island filled with monsters, and only three lucky ones can leave the area alive - to do so, they will have to form fragile alliances, find priceless relics, and fight their way to the evacuation helicopter using weapons they have managed to find.
Radiation City
Action 24 August 2017
Radiation City for mobile devices is a post-apocalyptic first-person action game, which allows the players to explore the vast open world comprising Pripyat and the area surrounding the town (including the territory of the nuclear plant in Chernobyl). Gameplay features survival mechanics, thus apart from fighting mutants and soldiers, the players have to gather resources and craft various items.
Etherland
Strategy canceled
A strategy game that takes us into a fantastic world of war. During the game we acquire raw materials, expand the city, and recruit an army, which we put up to fight the enemy's troops. The title was created with virtual reality sets in mind.
Grimmwood: They Come at Night
RPG 02 August 2018
A multiplayer survival game with roguelike and RPG elements, in which we play the role of a refugee looking for shelter from monsters in an old village. In Grimmwood, we fight to survive by working together with other players. During the day, we acquire raw materials, craft items and strengthen fortifications, while at night, we repel attacks from the beasts inhabiting the forest surrounding the settlement.
Walden, a game
Adventure 04 July 2017
Unusual adventure game with survival elements created by Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. In Walden and the game, we play the role of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, striving to strike a balance between the activities necessary for survival and the search for inspiration.
Don't Starve: Nintendo Switch Edition
Action 12 April 2018
A new version of the popular survival game Don’t Starve. This edition was developed for Nintendo Switch. In addition to the base game that originally debuted in 2013, it includes two expansions – Reign of Giants and Shipwrecked. The expansions greatly expand the gameplay with new features.
Radiation Island
Action 19 January 2015
A first-person perspective survival game developed by Atypical Games. The title takes place in an alternative reality of the 40s. Japanese experiments with teleportation technology caused four tropical islands to disappear from the face of the world. The islands were transported to an alternative reality, and a member of an American research program is sent to discover what happened to them.
The Trail: Frontier Challenge
Simulation 16 August 2017
The Trail: Frontier Challenge is a survival game developed by Peter Molyneux's studio 22 Cans, creators of Godus and Curiosty. We play as a traveler who, after a long journey, reaches the New World and begins to explore it. Our job is to venture deeper into the land. As we play, we travel from town to town, camping on the way. We also collect and craft various items during our adventures. The game is slow-paced and focuses on being more relaxing than challenging.
ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile
Action 14 June 2018
A mobile port of ARK: Survival Evolved – a popular sandbox game known from PCs and consoles. The players enter a large island inhabited by dinosaurs with a mission to survive in the hostile territory.
Detached
Action 18 May 2017
A First Person Experience game, created for virtual reality headsets. It was developed by Polish indie studio Anshar, whose members contributed to such titles as Lords of the Fallen or Sniper: Ghost Warrior. The story takes place in the future, in the age of uninhibited deep space exploration. The discovery of a working artifact of an alien civilization resulted in a bloody conflict between two leading corporations.
The Light Keeps Us Safe
Action 05 September 2019
A survival sneakdown set in a procedurally generated, postapocalyptic world, in which we must avoid contact with aggressive watchdogs crossing the surface of the Earth. The authors of the title are the creators of Sir, You Are Being Hunted and The Signal From Tolva.
We Happy Few: They Came from Below
Action 04 April 2019
Roger & James in: They Came from Below! is the first addition to the We Happy Few action adventure game by Compulsion Games studio. It focuses on the adventures of two twisted characters known from the "stand": Roger and James.
We Happy Few: Lightbearer
Action 30 July 2019
Lightbearer is the second addition to the We Happy Few adventure game by Compulsion Games studio. It focuses on the character of the popular Wellington Wells rockman, Nick Lightbearer.
We Happy Few: We All Fall Down
Action 19 November 2019
We All Fall Down is the third addition to the We Happy Few action adventure game by Compulsion Games studio. Production focuses on the secrets of the city of Wellington Wells and its inhabitants.
Better Late Than Dead
Action 03 March 2016
A survival sandbox game created by Odin Game Studio, the creators of Enforcer: Police Crime Action published in 2014. The player arrives at a tropical island where he needs to fight for survival and find a way home. Apart from that, the hero also has to shed light to some unnerving secrets, from his memory loss, through the mysterious picture that came into his possession, to traces of supernatural animal activity.
Cloud Chasers
Action 15 October 2015
A mobile action-adventure game created by Blindflug Studios, focusing on survival-related gameplay mechanics. The plot in Cloud Chasers takes on the difficult subject of illegal immigration, presenting it however, in the unusual form of an allegory that employs fantasy elements. The game is set in a steampunk land of deserts that has been in decline because of the greedy residents of flying towns. The player assumes the role of a father who raises his daughter on his own.
How to Survive: Third Person Standalone
Action 02 July 2015
A standalone expansion for the arcade game How to Survive. While the original presents the action in an isometric view, How to Survive Third Person Standalone, just like the title suggests, introduces a TPP mode. Other than the changed perspective, it is the same production. We assume the role of one of the four castaways on a Columbian archipelago which is home to bloodthirsty zombies.
Wild Wastes
Action canceled
A survival-action game mixed with rougelike elements, developed by Everplay Interactive. The action of Wild Wastes takes place in modern times, in a small American town called Earlsboro, infested with bandits, aliens, and other bloodthirsty monsters known as negatives. Our task is to stay alive for a week. The action is seen from a top-down camera view, while the combat system, heavily inspired by old-school shooters, is rather arcade in nature.
Project: Knoxville
Action canceled
Project: Knoxville is an action multiplayer game designed for the Xbox One console. The game takes place on closed maps, where brutal competitions are held, in which the participants' lives are at stake. The goal of every player is to survive and eliminate the competition. However, it requires cooperation with other users, which is difficult, as each such alliance must sooner or later end in betrayal.
One Life
Action TBA
A post-apocalyptic MMOFPS with survival game features. It was developed by the independent Russian studio Kefir! At first glance the mechanics of One Life are similar to other games in the genre. The player is taken to a large post-apocalyptic world filled with dangers, where he and other users are trying to survive. The path to victory leads through wise strategy, seeking water and food and through crafting needed items. What makes the title original is a unique system of permanent death.
NEO Scavenger
Strategy 15 December 2014
A turn-based strategy game with survival elements, set in near post-apocalyptic future. Earth has been invaded by nightmarish legendary monsters that ruined the cities and slaughtered almost all humans. The survivors hide in fortified metropolises and small, forgotten villages, hoping to live through at least one day more. You play as a person, who wakes from cryogenic sleep and wants to find out who they are and what happened to humanity.
Asteroids: Outpost
Action canceled
Set in the realities of science-fiction sandbox survival simulator, developed for Atari by Salty Games, a studio made up of industry veterans. The game's title refers to the cult arcade production Asteroids, but at the same time it focuses on completely different mechanics of play. The action of the game takes place on the border of the solar system, where on the surface of asteroids humanity searches for new deposits of depleting resources.
Reign of Kings
Action 16 December 2015
An MMO in Medieval setting, classified as a sandbox survival simulator. The game does not introduce a very refined plot; the players' characters, deprived of any memories, find themselves on the coast of a mysterious island, where it's everybody for themselves in the struggle for the royal throne. As in pretty much any survival game, the essential element of the gameplay is the need to obtain food, and the resources necessary to construct simple tools or, eventually, your own fort.