Hidden Survival Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated survival games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Survival games on Steam.

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FREEDIVER: Triton Down Plunge into VR on a capsizing research ship, the Triton, where survival means outmaneuvering the water's lethal surge. Freedive through a sinking ship, overcome underwater chaos, and unlock your path to the surface, all while protecting your most precious resource: the breath in your lungs.

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 May 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 -89% 0.58€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 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
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 14.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 Mar 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 -60% 6.00€
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
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
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
The Wall [Servers Temporarily Shut Down!] Build. Gather. Breach. The Wall is a never-before seen mix of genres, where dynamic maps, slick combat, base building, and economy management all come together.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Nov 2018
The Colonists Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Price -91% 2.07€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Oct 2018
Star Shelter Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Oct 2018
Giraffe Town A giraffe born with slippery feet sets out to find love...

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Oct 2018
Orion Sandbox Enhanced This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Sep 2018
Endless Road: Reborn Endless Road: Reborn is a roguelike card game published by Sula Box Games where players use a variety of equipment & skills to defeat vile creatures lurking along a treacherous, endless road. Players will also be faced with choices that will test their decision-making abilities and survival skills.

Price 8.69€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Sep 2018
FROSTBITE: Deadly Climate Survive the arctic research base simply known as Base 75, or die from the freezing cold or by the horrors that lurk within the halls?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Jul 2018
Don't Bite Me Bro! + Don't Bite Me Bro! is a 1-4 Player Couch Co-op open-world zombie apocalypse game. Explore the world for resources, find and save survivors throughout the world, each which become playable characters with unique traits and abilities.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Jul 2018
Ding Dong XL A fast-paced, neon-infused arcade game with simple one-button controls! Addictive, easy to learn, and perfect for quick sessions. Challenge yourself to beat your high score while waiting in queue for another game!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Jun 2018
Smoke and Sacrifice Smoke and Sacrifice sees Sachi, a mother forced to give up her son, adventure into a grotesque underworld on a quest that will lead her to a darker truth.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 7.1
Release 31 May 2018
Wrongworld Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Price -90% 0.71€
Rating 8.7
Release 11 May 2018
Infectonator 3: Apocalypse A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.

Price -29% 9.19€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 May 2018
Death Toll Death Toll is a multiplayer, open world first person survival shooter with a unique game mode that focuses on team play. Players are dropped into the world with nothing but their cunning, their will to survive, and the game's single goal: Escape the Island.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Apr 2018
Island 359™ Island 359 is a Virtual Reality survival game for the HTC Vive and Oculus Touch. Players will scrounge for weapons, upgrades, food, and other items they can find to survive for as long as they can against hordes of dinosaurs, as they explore the increasingly dangerous, beautiful, and expansive island.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Feb 2018
Walking Zombie: Shooter The Walking Zombie is a stationary FPS with an online co-op mode in a world full of zombies to kill. Buy and upgrade your weapons, kill all enemies in 200 levels and destroy mighty boss monsters before they eat you alive!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Jan 2018
Total Miner Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 Dec 2017