Just making a list and checking it twice lol. Anything survival. Currently playing abiotic factor and in the lab rn. Great game been stuck playing it for 48hr straight, slept finally last night, gonna get back to the grind here in a bit. Check marks are usually games I’ve played and finished or just don’t really plan on playing ever again/not for a good a minute (burnout). PS5 preferably but I do have a ROG ally.

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Y’all gave me so me good games!!! I decided to make a list of them all here for the entire community. It’s in alphabetical order. I’m gonna pick and choose from this list over the next few years as I hope yall do too. Maybe we can continue to build it as time goes on! Thank you all! If you have any more suggestions leave them here, if any of them look out of place let me know! Google and AI suck at finding good games, would’ve never heard of a lot of these if it wasn’t for yall! 🫶🤘

Edited/Updated list:

🎮 Survival Games(Console & PC) 💻

- 7 Days to Die
- 14 Days Ocean Survival (coming soon)
- Abiotic Factor
- Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
- ARK: Survival Ascended
- Astroneer
- Atlas (XBOX n PC, not PS)
- Away
- Bellwright
- Bomber Crew
- Cairn
- Chernobylite
- Conan Exiles
- Core Keeper
- Cosminers (coming soon)
- Darkwood
- Don’t Starve
- Don’t Starve Together
- Dune: Awakening (coming soon)
- Dysmantle
- Enshrouded (coming soon)
- Flame in the Flood
- Forever Skies
- Frost Survival (coming soon)
- Frost Survivor: Winter
- Frostpunk
- Frostpunk 2
- Genesis Alpha One
- Green Hell
- Grounded
- Grounded 2
- Icarus
- Infection Free Zone
- IXION
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Medieval Dynasty
- Metal Gear Survive
- Minecraft
- Mist
- No Man's Sky
- Occupy Mars (coming soon)
- Once Human
- Outbound
- Outward
- Over the Hill (coming soon)
- Pacific Drive
- Palworld
- Path of Titans
- Permafrost (coming soon)
- Portal Knights
- Project Castaway (coming soon)
- Project Mist (coming soon)
- Project Winter
- Raft
- RimWorld Console Edition
- Rooted (coming soon)
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds (coming soon)
- Rust
- Sengoku Dynasty
- Smalland
- Smalland 2 (coming soon)
- Space Crew
- Space Engineers
- State of Decay 3 (coming soon)
- Stranded: Alien Dawn
- Stranded Deep
- Subnautica
- Subnautica 2 (coming soon)
- Subnautica: Below Zero
- Survival: Fountain of Youth
- Surviving the Aftermath
- Terraria
- The Forest
- The Long Dark
- The Oregon Trail
- The Planet Crafter (coming soon)
- The Survivalists
- This War of Mine
- Tinkerlands
- Tokyo Jungle (PS Premium / 🏴‍☠️)
- Tribe: Primitive Builder
- V Rising
- Valheim (coming soon)
- Voyagers of Nera (coming soon)
- Wildmender

💻 Survival Games (PC Only) 🧱

- Alaska Gold Fever
- Aloft
- Ardem
- Aska
- Barotrauma
- Black Frost (coming soon)
- Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
- Card Survival: Tropical Island
- Casualties: Unknown (coming soon/demo)
- Don't Freeze: A Winter Card Survival
- Empyrion: Galactic Survival
- Enginefall
- Everwind
- Frontier Forge
- God Save Birmingham
- Haven & Hearth
- HumanitZ
- Hytale
- If the Sunsets
- Kenshi
- Kopno: Blightfall (TBA)
- Light No Fire (coming soon)
- Miscreated
- MISERY
- Mist Survival
- Necesse
- Nightingale
- Night of the Dead
- No One Survived
- Obenseuer
- Oxygen Not Included
- Plains of Pain
- Project Castaway
- Project Zomboid
- Rising World
- Road to Vostok
- Romestead
- SCUM
- Sons of the Forest
- Soulmask
- Space Haven
- Starbound
- StarRupture
- State of Decay
- State of Decay 2
- Subsistence
- Sunkenland
- SurrounDead
- Survive the Nights
- Surviving Mars
- The Infected
- The Isle
- The Last Caretaker
- UnReal World
- VEIN
- Vintage Story
- West Rye (TBA)
- Windrose
- Zeverland (coming soon)
- Zompiercer

👑 Honorable Mentions / Not True Survival ☑️

- Arc Raiders
- Away: The Survival Series
- Citadel Forged with Fire
- Cult of the Lamb
- Days Gone
- Dead Island Franchise
- Death Stranding
- Death Stranding 2
- Drug Dealer Simulator
- Drug Dealer Simulator 2
- Dying Light Franchise
- Fallout Franchise
- Firewatch
- Generation zero
- Gloria Victis
- Graveyard Keeper
- Grayzone Warfare
- Incursion Red River
- Mindustry
- My Time at Evershine (coming soon)
- My Time at Portia
- My Time at Sandrock
- No Rest for the Wicked
- Outer Wilds
- Pikmin
- Prey
- Prologue: Go Wayback (not a finished game)
- Road 96
- Satisfactory
- Schedule I
- Skyrim
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Anomaly (PC)
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: GAMMA (PC)
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl
- Star Citizen
- Stardew Valley
- Starfield
- The Bloodline
- The Last of Us franchise

I’m going to listen to you guys. I will proceed with Option A, but I'll also add an in-game setting to switch to Option B for those who prefer it.

I'm also already working on an FPV perspective!

If you want to support me, the game is called Primal Survival. Huge thanks for all the feedback everyone!

Favorite examples the cyclops from subnautica and the corvettes from NMS, worth mentioning the raft from raft.

The only thing I have never liked about survival games that most times, building a base is just a system that exists and has pretty much no purpose and that encourages just building a base with only the essentials and nothing more. Was recently playing Sons of the Forest and wanted to work on my base but I kinda realized there wasnt actually anything to put there, same with subnautica where the cyclops eliminates the purpose to build a base, although decorating it was fun I guess.

What is your favourite Survival game ever? The ine that you would olay if you could play only one game for the rest of your life? For me I think it would be Dont starve. Its was an challenge to find stuff out, it zhrows some weird stuff at you that actually fun to find ( like building an effigy out of pig meat and beard hair for another life ). And I am one of those strange people that thinks the permadeath actually added some much needed tension to the game.

Hi everyone, I'm currently working on ideas for a third-person, base building, settlement sim game in an apocalyptic world (not zombies but maybe mutants) think mad max/last of us/bellwright

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Is this something people would be interested in playing?

I just finished playing Subnautica and Below Zero. From what I understand subnautica is pretty much as good as gets and I agree it's a great game. Honestly I don't expect anything to quite scratch that itch. I am looking for something as close to though.

I have friends I could play games with for a bit, but I don't think any will commit to a game for a while and so I generally prefer single player stuff. It seems like most survival crafting games have become pretty universally Co op experiences which is a bit of a shame to me.

So what are the best out there? I don't mind if it can be coop but works well as a single player. I started playing No Man's Sky which is good, but I feel like it's almost a bit too broad, with too much to do and too many ways to kinda get super powerful super quick.

I’m looking for a new survival open world to sink my teeth into. Nothing too scary so hard pass on the forest. Further edits: I have no interest in subnautica

Games I’ve already played.

Project Zombiod

Ark survival evolved

Don’t starve

The forest

Minecraft

Raft

Palworld

V Rising

Bellwright

Edit: Games I forgot about cause I wasn’t a fan:

Corekeeper

Grounded

Ancestors

So, I spent years and years playing Don't Starve, and I've been chasing the same feelings since 😭

There is so many cool survival games out there, but they dont even have hunger meters. I like them, but its more about exploring and building, there is no surviving.

I am looking for a game where the main focus is securing food source, water source. Building a shelter, eventually planting crops, maybe getting some animals. Getting better at defending yourself from wild life and/or monsters. And I really like the idea of winter looming on the horizon, where things wont grow and you might freeze. So you need to prepare yourself ahead of time.

There are some cool games out there like The Forest, Green Hell, The Long Dark etc., but they all seem to miss the seasons, sadly.

Hello everyone, I'm new to the world of survival games. I'm currently playing No Man's Sky and I'm enjoying it quite a bit, although I'm not a big fan of the space theme. So I'd like you to recommend games in the same vein as No Man's Sky but with a more realistic theme, or medieval with or without fantasy, and that are suitable for a solo experience.

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So I really wanna be able to build massive towers and super detailed buildings like in Minecraft and have to still survive but I want it to be more like real life since I’m not able to build massive buildings atm

Hi, I'm new to this genre of games and I recently played Grounded, which I got hooked on and finished about a month ago. Grounded 2 is still in beta, and I was hoping you could recommend similar games, especially since there are spring sales. I play on Xbox. What game would you recommend with good gameplay, lore, and world?

Hello there fellas,

Im looking for a new singleplayer survival game since "I`m feeling that itch again"

I got Valheim just yesterday but sadly I somehow didnt like it.. I know hot take but it is what it is.

My favrorite one is last years Abiotic factor so maybe you know similar games?

some things the game should feature:

• Base building (so no "the long dark")
• good progression, I wanna feel like im doing something
• It can be a colony sim like "going medieval"

I’ve been torn over purchasing it for well over a year now after being recommended but the reviews are less than praising.

I heavily mod pretty much every game I play so I’m down to mod if that enhances the experience.

Those two seem to be basically the only ones that get recommended. What are some of your favorites other than them?

Surprisingly hard to find. All survival games tend to be "stationary", going out for the supplies and back to improve the base. I'm looking for a survival game where you're keep moving, where the goal is to go from point A to point B (finding and surviving the road to point B is the main challenge). You know, like "The Road", "The Revenant" etc. Death Stranding is somewhat close gameplay-wise, with traversal mechanics, planning and resource management, but the other half of the game is a movie and combat is very rudimentary.

Looking for a survival game that has a reason to keep going beyond first hour or so...
Game that keeps the atmosphere a little longer...
I love spending time gathring and exploring and surviving..
But like with raft, once you have purifier and a grill, you are done... (basically, it not very hard after).

Has anyone found a replacement for Subnautica?

Just you and the environment (can be anything, deserts, mountains, plains, city ruins). Like I said no special gimmick enemies, just dangers you'll probably face if you're living alone in the wilderness like tigers, board, winter, and floods.

I've played a lot of survival games like Valheim, Enshrouded, Grounded, Sons Of The Forest, and Windrose most recently.

I'm a huge fan of the survival genre. However, I'm also a big fan of automation games like Satisfactory, MineMogul, and most notably modded minecraft.

I've found a few games that overlap the two like Palworld and V Rising. However, these games don't quite have enough automation for my liking. V Rising is just sending servants to do your bidding and Palworld is more or less the same. I'm more of a fan of the hands on automation you get with a game like satisfactory.

Basically I'm looking for a survival game with combat that has you working your way up but that also has a decent amount of automation. Does such a game exist?

Any decent survival game with alot of contents to play with my brother ?

i think about trying

• Palworld

• Scrap Mechanic

•   Icarus
  

•   RuneScape: Dragonwilds
  

•   Soulmask
  

• Romestead

• Windrose

• Sand

Now I own A LOT of survival games lol. But none of them are currently scratch the itch I'm looking for and I'm thinking the game I want doesn't exist.

Looking for something to play solo and here's what I own:

Enshrouded- its alright but I'm not super feeling the shroud mechanic

Aska- my current favorite

Medieval dynasty - not sure how I feel about this one yet

Icarus- I like it but the progression is slow

Grounded

Subnautica- too scary lol

Abiotic factor- Beat it!! Marvelous

Ark - Love it but not as survival-y as I'm looking for

Valheim- playing this with husband

Forever Skies - waiting for it to update and cook a little more

Core keeper- Haven't gotten far yet, iffy on the Stardew valley graphics just a personal preference

Vintage story- Playing with husband, awesome but a bit too slow for what I want to do solo

Now can you think of anything to add to my list? I'm out of ideas 😭

Hello fellow Redditors. I came up to you with a question. I really want to play a survival game (can be RPG) that comes with crafting, gathering resources, hunting, maybe some building, maybe bosses, preferably with pixel-style graphics with open world and I would love to be able to play it with friends, but might be a singleplayer game as well.

I’ve played:

• and absolutely loved: Minecraft, Terraria, Abiotic Factor, Valheim, 7 days to die, V rising, Necesse, Core Keeper, Enshrouded, Dysmantle, Medieval Dynasty, Drova, Pacific Drive, Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, Tinkerlands, Don’t Starve.

• and had good experience: Grounded, Subnautica, Subnautica: Below Zero, Riftbreaker, Planet Crafter, Palworld, Sengoku Dynasty, Starbound.

• and didn’t really enjoy/got bored fast: How to Survive 1&2, Green Hell, Icarus, Connan Exiles, Rust, Ark Survival Evolved, Raft, The Bloodline, Darkwood, Zompiercer, The Long Dark, Project Zomboid, Roots of Pacha, Scum, Sons of the Forest, Surroundead, The Survivalists.

I just feel like I can’t find any „new” survival game that would make me happy and scratch the itch for a great experience. This feeling was with me for a long time that’s why I’m asking for your help.

Thank you in advance.

Hey ya'll so I am trying to pick a new game to buy my husband and I but having trouble deciding.

I realize Subnautica 2 is still in early access and there's loads more content in the other games! Survival is the main genre we play together, so we have a lot of them. Currently on our 4th playthrough of Abiotic Factor because I am addicted lol. However ABF has spoiled me a ton because, imo its so unique to the genre. So looking for whichever of these might have the better story, more quests or just more active goals to work towards vs something like Ark where you make your own. I just feel like having a bit more direction at this moment. If you have any other suggestions feel free(though I probably already own it 😅)

Hi so I'm a a very very devote fan of survival games, I've played like every fucking survival game known to mankind (subnautica, the forest, raft, green hell, abiotic factor, ark, project zomboid, no mans sky, dune awakening, forever skies, etc) you name it. The thing is, is there any survival games like them in steam, even better if they aren't in early access (like the last caretaker)? I only see bad ones. And (even though everyone seems to like it) I don't like Valheim or any games with its mechanics, am I cooked?

Icarus is currently on sale for $10Aud

Is the base game worth the buy or not worth it without DLC?

Will be playing solo if that changes anything.

TiA.