Best Survival games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our survival game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify survival games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best survival games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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Thea 2: The Shattering

In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?

Price 21.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 13 May 2019

Never Split the Party

Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 03 May 2019

Fade to Silence

Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.

Price 29.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 30 Apr 2019

MORDHAU

MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.

Price 28.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Apr 2019

BLOCKPOST LEGACY

Procedural cubic 3D-shooter in the best traditions of the genre. The game is a rich cocktail consisting of the most popular and functional gaming solutions. Customization of characters, opening cases and improving the existing arsenal — all this is available in the game now!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Apr 2019

Talk to Strangers

Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Apr 2019

Paper Dolls: Original / 纸人

Paper Dolls Original is a first-person horror adventure game steeped in Eastern culture. You act a man who is separated from his daughter after a car accident. When he awakes, he finds himself in a deserted Asian mansion. Find your daughter and unveil a terrifying story buried for a hundred years

Price 13.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Apr 2019

Embark

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Price 24.50€
Rating 6.1
Release 18 Apr 2019

Forager

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Apr 2019

Driftland: The Magic Revival

After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!

Price 16.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2019

No Time

Go on a trip through time! Experience the freedom of traveling into any date, hour and minute in time between the years 1 and 2077! Help your best friend Edward in his scientific affairs! Watch out for the Time Agents & avoid yourself!

Price 11.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Apr 2019

Staxel

Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Apr 2019

Zanki Zero: Last Beginning

Explore the ruins, dungeons, and islands in this post-apocalyptic world through the POV of eight protagonists as they fight for survival and search for meaning in their never-ending cycles of life and death.

Price 59.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 09 Apr 2019

Generation Zero®

Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Mar 2019

Refight:The Last Warship

It's a warship survival TPS game with an exciting Battle Royale gameplay for solo players, teams and groups alike. Search for resources while sailing on the Crisis-ridden Sea. The last player standing becomes the King of the Sea!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 14 Mar 2019

CounterAttack: Uprising

CounterAttack: Uprising is a side scrolling space shooter (shmup). Team up or fight solo, 1 - 4 player local or up to 8 players online coop, unlock upgrades, use powerful ultimate abilities, enhance your ship the way you want, and save the Earth from annihilation.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 Mar 2019

Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive

Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Mar 2019

Cube Land Arena

The kingdom of Cubia call for your help, come to this vast kingdom where you will face strong enemies and hard challenges, you are the chosen to defend the cristals of life and finally bring peace to reign of Cubia.

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 6.1
Release 08 Mar 2019

Dawn of Man

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Mar 2019

Space Engineers

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive.

Price 16.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Feb 2019

Road to Eden

Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Feb 2019

The Coin Game

A collection of ticket redemption arcades with realistic physics, a carnival, goofy robots, open world design, a global ranking system and silly prizes. Featuring 50+ modern inspired arcade machines and a pawn shop to keep money in your pocket. The Coin Game is made by a solo developer.

Price -30% 8.11€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Feb 2019

Battlerite Royale

Explore the fantastical Talon Island in a thrilling fusion between a MOBA and Battle Royale game. Choose your Champion and master their unique abilities, loot for treasures alone or with a friend, and rise above the competition in a top-down action-fest. Only the best survive to the end!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 19 Feb 2019

Far Cry® New Dawn

Dive into a transformed vibrant post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe. Lead the fight against the Highwaymen, as they seek to take over the last remaining resources.

Price 44.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 15 Feb 2019

Eastshade

You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Visit cities, scale summits, unearth mysteries, and discover forgotten places!

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Feb 2019

Evolution Board Game

Predators lurk, food is scarce, you must adapt - or go extinct. Evolve your species to survive and dominate as you explore the campaign or go head-to-head with the skill-based matchmaker.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 Feb 2019

Islet Online

Islet Online is a sandbox-style MMORPG. It is all about digging and placing bricks to build your own land. And with various materials from wildlife, bricks can be combined to make useful items, too. Whenever you act, your character gets experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Feb 2019

ASTRONEER

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Price -67% 9.89€
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Feb 2019

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Price 22.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Jan 2019

Volcanoids

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Jan 2019

Resident Evil 2

A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.

Price 39.99€
Rating 9.6
Release 24 Jan 2019

DESOLATE

DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Jan 2019

My Time at Portia

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Price 29.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Jan 2019

The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]

The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Jan 2019

Medieval Kingdom Wars

Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…

Price 18.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Jan 2019

03.04

04/03/2017How much does this date tell you? For the main character, it became very significant, because this is the day of his death. The protagonist was precisely in the train that arrived at the metro station "Technological Institute" with the bodies of innocent, already dead, people ...

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Jan 2019

Beasts of Bermuda

Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 Dec 2018

ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Dec 2018

Miscreated

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 18 Dec 2018

Bloons TD 6

The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.6
Release 17 Dec 2018

DayZ

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Price 47.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Dec 2018

Kingdom Two Crowns

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 11 Dec 2018

Obenseuer

Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Dec 2018

Kenshi

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Price 26.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 06 Dec 2018

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.

Price 34.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2018

Prime World: Defenders 2

Defenders 2, - an exciting hybrid of Tower Defense and CCG, - is now available on Steam! Challenge endless hordes of monsters: build an impassable defense on their path and protect your mines. Collect all the unique towers and prove that even a tornado is not an obstacle for you.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Nov 2018

Granny

You have to escape Granny`s house...You have five days...

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Nov 2018

Among Us

An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players...in space!

Price 4.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Nov 2018