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Near Death
Action 02 August 2016
Developed by Orthogonal Games, a first-person perspective action game emphasizing survival aspects. In Near Death you assume the role of a woman whose plane crashes near an abandoned research station in Antarctica. In the middle of a blizzard, with temperature falling below -70 degrees Celsius, the protagonist tries to find a way of to survive and escape, which will require her to restore the station to operational status.
Tom Clancy's The Division: Survival
Action 22 November 2016
The second paid expansion for Tom Clancy’s The Division, an online action game with RPG elements. Survival, just like the vanilla game, was developed by Ubisoft Massive, a studio experienced with online titles. Similarly to the first add-on, Underground, Survival first debuted on Xbox One and then came out for PC and PlayStation 4 a month later. The Division is a political thriller in which New York is faced with a biological terrorist attack.
March of the Living
Strategy 20 April 2016
A two-dimensional retro game that combines elements of real-time strategy, roguelike action game and survival. The title was developed by an independent developer known as Machine 22 and the team at Creaky Corpse (authors of the browser MMO game Dead Frontier). March of the Living employs the popular zombie apocalypse theme.
Tree of Life
Action 17 August 2017
Tree of Life is a survival MMO developed by the Korean studio OddOneGames. Despite being set in a fantasy world, the game in topic has the same simple rules as others of the genre. Players are taken to a vast, open world where they have only one goal - survival. To do so, they hunt and gather resources in order to build bases and fortresses that make it easier to defend themselves against other players and AI-controlled monsters.
Chronicles of Elyria
RPG canceled
An MMORPG developed by Soulbound. Chronicles of Elyria is set in a fantasy world inspired by the medieval Europe. The game received financial support on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. The mechanics combine elements borrowed from the classics of the genre with innovative features.
Fatigue
Adventure canceled
Fatigue is a PC-based adventure in which we play the role of a former policeman trying to solve a mysterious murder case. The game is maintained in a climate of horror and offers complex puzzles logic. The game, observed in isometric view, is enriched by survival elements.
Grimm: Dark Legacy
RPG 02 November 2016
A survival RPG with advanced online features released in free-to-play distribution model. Grimm: Dark Legacy is based on the popular NBC television series and it was created by Artplant, the creators of Battlestar Galactica Online. Gameplay mechanics and style of the title are similar to the highly praised survival game Don’t Starve. In Grimm: Dark Legacy, the player assumes the role of a beginner Grimm, hunter of fairy creatures known as Wesen who live among humans.
Organ Trail: Complete Edition
Simulation 14 July 2016
A complete edition of an old school simulation game with RPG features. The title takes place in a world filled with zombies and the player's task is to survive. The game is a pastiche of the classic title The Oregon Trail which told the story of a group of settlers colonizing America. During the game, the player controls a group of survivors who travel through the USA in an old car. In order to survive, they must gather food and other useful items like medications and fuel.
Organ Trail: Director's Cut
Simulation 09 August 2012
Organ Trail: Director's Cut is a game simulating attempts to experience the world after the zombie apocalypse. We control a group of survivors travelling through the United States in a dilapidated car. Among other things, we must avoid worries and bandits, treat illnesses, collect petrol and food, and look for spare parts for cars.
Praey for the Gods
Action 14 December 2021
A third-person perspective action game with survival features, inspired by the cult PS2 game Shadow of the Colossus. The title is a debut project of the independent American studio No Matter. Prey for the Gods takes place on a large island covered with ice. During the game the player assumes the role of a female hero who discovers the secret for the endless winter that rules over the land - turns out that some powerful gods are responsible for it.
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.
Don't Starve: Pocket Edition
Action 09 July 2015
A mobile edition of the survival adventure game created by Klei Entertainment. The action of Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition takes place in a randomly generated wilderness, where the protagonist, a scientist named Wilson, was teleported by a deceitful demon. The hero has to use his knowledge and skills to survive in a hostile environment full of wild beasts, and find a way to go back home.
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.
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.
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.
P.A.M.E.L.A.
Action 18 June 2020
A survival-horror action adventure game and the debut production from NVYVE, a Canadian studio. The action takes place in the near future on an island that is almost completely occupied by a modern shopping and entertainment center called the Eden. In the game, we assume the role of a sole survivor of a plague of a mysterious virus that infected the island’s inhabitants and the protagonist's only ally is an AI named Pamela.
Grave
Action canceled
The debut production of Broken Window. It is a sandbox arcade action game with survival elements. The action of Grave takes place in grim and slightly surreal wastelands that are desolate and relatively safe during the day. At night, however, various kinds of disgusting monsters come out to hunt for the player character.
MiniDayZ
Action 21 November 2014
A free fan-made 2D web-based game, later published by Bohemia Interactive. The production was based on the survival game DayZ, which in turn was a full-fledged version of an ArmA II mod. In terms of content and mechanics, MiniDayZ is not much different from the original — the game is set in the zombie-infested Chernarus and you, as one of the survivors, are trying to last as long as your can in the hostile world.
Before
Strategy canceled
A sandbox real-time strategy game featuring survival elements. It was developed by Facepunch Studios, a team popular for Garry's Mod and Rust. The player is taken to prehistoric times in order to command a tribe of cavemen trying to survive. The gameplay consists of searching for food and basic resources, such as wood or stone, and gathering animal skins. The materials can be used to construct buildings and craft different items.
GRAV
Action canceled
A science-fiction sandbox action game developed by independent studio BitMonster. In GRAV the players are tasked with exploring alien planets, gathering resources required for surviving and fighting aliens and examples of local fauna. The surface of planets is generated procedurally by a special system that makes sure they are filled with plants, animals and various biomes – from skyscraping mountaintops to underground caves.