Best Survival Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our 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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Cattails | Become a Cat! Become a cat! Cattails is a unique animal simulation RPG. Hunt for food, fight invading cats, explore to gather herbs, and socialize with other cats in an expansive open world. Get married and raise a family of kittens, befriend your neighbors, and learn to live in the dangerous wilderness!

Price -75% 3.24€
Rating 9.2
Release 01 Dec 2017
Hold Your Own A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?

Price 13.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 30 Nov 2017
CS2D CS2D is a free fast-paced top-down multiplayer shooter. Featuring many different game modes, a built-in map editor and much more.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Nov 2017
Space Pirates And Zombies 2 Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 07 Nov 2017
Bomber Crew Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!

Price -93% 1.21€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Oct 2017
SAS: Zombie Assault 4 Purge the undead! Intense action-shooter with deep rpg elements, including upgradeable guns and armor, unique class skills, and class special abilities. Entire game can be played single player or as a 4-player online co-op game, including PvP events like Last Man Standing.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Oct 2017
Diamo XL Diamo XL is a fast-paced, addictive, and challenging arcade score chaser. Dodge obstacles, rack up high scores, and master precise movement. Easy to learn but tough to master, it's perfect for quick sessions or leaderboard dominance. Play while waiting in queue or push for endless high-score glory!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Oct 2017
The Evil Within 2 Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.

Price -87% 3.95€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Oct 2017
Let Them Come Let Them Come is a fast paced pixel art shoot ‘em up. Twitchy trigger fingers and focused battle tactics are the order of the day as wave after wave of alien-like creatures try to take you down.

Price -95% 0.41€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Oct 2017
Throne of Lies®: Medieval Politics The 3D online multiplayer game of social deduction and mischief, inspired by medieval politics and the Werewolf/Mafia (1986) genre. Gather 'round the tabletop, uniting allies of the realm with strategy to distinguish friend from foe.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 29 Sep 2017
Bronze Age - HD Edition What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!

Price -73% 0.80€
Rating 7.2
Release 25 Sep 2017
The Coma: Recut You are Youngho, a Korean high school student trapped and relentlessly pursued by a psychotic killer in the hellish corridors of Sehwa High. Run, hide, explore, and survive while piecing together the mystery The Coma in this remastered version of the Korean cult classic.

Price -93% 0.87€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Sep 2017
Niche - a genetics survival game Niche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.

Price -94% 1.11€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Sep 2017
NosTale - Anime MMORPG NosTale is a free-to-play anime action MMORPG which takes you on an exciting journey through a world full of mystery with your friends. More than 30 specialist classes and tons of loyal pets provide plenty of excitement and variety in PvP, PvE and raids

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 18 Sep 2017
Eternity Warriors VR Packed with classical action game essences, high-definition visual, and real-time multiplayer features.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Sep 2017
Oriental Empires Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

Price -98% 0.70€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Sep 2017
The Land of Pain The Land of Pain is a Lovecraftian horror adventure. After something strange appears in the woods, you'll have to learn how to survive as you fend off a dark and disturbing evil. Flee from an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and unravel the ancient mystery that's befallen this land.

Price -68% 3.89€
Rating 7.2
Release 13 Sep 2017
Pixel Gladiator Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Sep 2017
ARK: Survival Evolved Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Aug 2017
Yet Another Zombie Defense HD Top-down zombie shooter with tower defense elements featuring up to 4 players local and online co-op. Build your base by day, defend it by night, put your skills to the test to stay alive as long as possible! Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive?

Price -83% 0.67€
Rating 8.1
Release 25 Aug 2017
Distrust: Polar Survival DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.

Price -95% 0.72€
Rating 7.0
Release 23 Aug 2017
Darkwood Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Price -95% 0.83€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Aug 2017
Castle Story Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.4
Release 17 Aug 2017
The Trail: Frontier Challenge Are you ready to discover the undiscovered? Are you ready to climb the tallest mountains, wear the finest clothes, and earn a fortune beyond compare? Then welcome to the New World! Welcome to The Trail: Frontier Challenge!

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 15 Aug 2017
ICY: Frostbite Edition ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.

Price -88% 1.65€
Rating 8.0
Release 11 Aug 2017
Crashday Redline Edition Crashday, the explosive cult classic multiplayer racer, is back! Retooled and remastered, Crashday: Redline Edition brings back the fun and memories of the original with this lovingly crafted tribute edition, featuring all-new and expanded features, including Steam Workshop support. Today is Crashday!

Price -94% 0.74€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 Aug 2017
The Ranger: Lost Tribe The story happens on the mainland of Roland. As a ranger, you have witnessed a series of anomalies recently: the blood moon, mad animals... Now the elder chief of NaBaer expects you to suppress the mobs who plundered their tribe. Perhaps you can find some clues in the tribe seized by the mobs.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Aug 2017
The Long Dark THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Price -24% 12.95€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Aug 2017
Run!ZombieFood! After the outbreak of the zombie virus, a group of survivors hit the zombie to survive! You can get a variety of special professional roles, weapons, supplies props, etc. - and perhaps a little white dog!

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Jul 2017
Aven Colony Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Price -98% 0.64€
Rating 7.1
Release 25 Jul 2017
Einar The player takes on the role of Einar, who is on a quest to kill the inhabitants of a Norse fishing village who are infected by a mysterious material. Use different weapons such as the bow, hammer and axe to clear the village of the monsters.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.0
Release 20 Jul 2017
Lawnmower Game Drive and cut grass first time in simulator game, with amazing lanwmower in big open world

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Jul 2017
Kingdoms and Castles Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 20 Jul 2017
Masked Forces: Zombie Survival What will you do when the zombie apocalypse comes, are you ready to tackle it right now and stay face to face with all the horrors that will appear?

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 6.8
Release 14 Jul 2017
Brigand: Oaxaca Brigand: Oaxaca is a highly difficult post-apocalyptic RPG/FPS set in Mexico. Emphasis is on challenge, a branching story with multiple endings, and total freedom of action (kill friendly characters, rob stores, jump across roofs, etc.).

Price -25% 7.31€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Jul 2017
Black The Fall After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?

Price -97% 0.51€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Jul 2017

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