Best 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.

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Medieval Dynasty Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Price -64% 11.09€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Sep 2021
Crysis Remastered The classic first person shooter from Crytek is back with the action-packed gameplay, sandbox world, and thrilling epic battles you loved the first time around – now with remastered graphics optimized for a new generation of hardware.

Price -86% 4.26€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Sep 2021
Scrapnaut Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Price -94% 0.71€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Sep 2021
Timberborn Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Price -59% 14.11€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Sep 2021
ATOM RPG Trudograd ATOM RPG: Trudograd is a turn-based post-apocalyptic roleplaying game, which continues the story of ATOM RPG as a stand-alone sequel/expansion, and follows the traditions set by classic cRPGs such as the early Fallout and Wasteland titles.

Price -95% 0.56€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Sep 2021
Animalia Survival Live as your favourite african animal, choose between being a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore, predator or prey. In this multiplayer ecosystem, with a realistic open world, choose to become a lion, a elephant or even a swift gazelle! But remember, the savannahs law is to survive at any cost!

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.3
Release 09 Sep 2021
Dice Legacy Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

Price -70% 4.49€
Rating 6.7
Release 09 Sep 2021
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.

Price -99% 0.59€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Sep 2021
死寂(Deathly Stillness) This is a boring zombie game with no plot, not an officially released game, please don't have high expectations.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 04 Sep 2021
You Must In the social network, the main character plays the quest "Hide and Seek", but this time the organizers decided to move the quest to the real world. They indicate the coordinates of the place where the quest item was hidden, the one who finds it first will receive a cash prize.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 03 Sep 2021
Swallow the Sea You are a lowly egg cell on a journey through a swollen sea of strange and humanoid fish. Prey on smaller life and growing larger and stronger to perhaps someday be born.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 03 Sep 2021
Dodge It! Do you have enough strength to be #1?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 27 Aug 2021
Seed of the Dead: Sweet Home Slaughter the ghouls to save the girls! Build up your love nest and woo four heroines as you fight to survive a ruined zombie hellscape! A one-of-a-kind Post apocalyptic FPS dating sim game filled with intense zombie killing action and lusty romance!

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 Aug 2021
Tormented Souls Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.

Price -96% 0.94€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Aug 2021
Super Animal Royale Welcome to the coziest way to kill your friends. Super Animal Royale is a 64-player, top-down 2D battle royale where adorably murderous animals fight tooth, claw, and machine gun. Then, relax in Super Animal World with fishing, hamsterball races, and story quests before the next fight to the death.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 26 Aug 2021
Aliens: Fireteam Elite Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.

Price -80% 6.27€
Rating 7.8
Release 23 Aug 2021
Granny 3 You have to escape Granny and Grandpa...You have five days...

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Aug 2021
HUMANKIND™ Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

Price -80% 9.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 17 Aug 2021
The Doors of Trithius The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Aug 2021
Life is Hard Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!

Price 8.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 14 Aug 2021
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Dive into the legends of the Far East in NARAKA: BLADEPOINT; team up with friends in fast-paced melee fights for a Battle Royale experience unlike any other. Find your playstyle with a varied cast of heroes with unique skills. More than 40 million players have already joined the fray, play free now!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 11 Aug 2021
Dust to the End Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.

Price -91% 0.96€
Rating 7.6
Release 11 Aug 2021
Patron Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Price -89% 2.39€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 Aug 2021
Starmancer From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 05 Aug 2021

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