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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Sins Of The Demon RPG Follow the journey of Kenshi, a wandering demon hunter, and his brother, a demon cat seeking a way to return to his true form. Can they find a way to end the curse and save Lanistra?

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 May 2016
Who's Your Daddy?! Who's Your Daddy is a casual multiplayer game featuring a clueless father attempting to prevent his infant son from certain death. Play with up to 7 of your friends, and test your parenting skills in a competitive setup with wacky physics and over 67 potentially ominous household items.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 May 2016
Dead Effect 2 Dead Effect 2 is the newest addition to the acclaimed Dead Effect franchise. This action sci-fi shooter is looking to push the boundaries of first-person shooters to new levels with slick graphics, rich narrative and RPG elements.

Price -42% 7.07€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 May 2016
Share In the backyard of the civilization, left by destiny without any hope, you'll find this house on the hill. It will become your shelter and give you everything you need. But then, the owners of the hill will come. And you will pay for this shelter.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 03 May 2016
Flesh Eaters Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Price -20% 3.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 May 2016
Left Alone Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 Apr 2016
Offworld Trading Company Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Price -97% 1.03€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Apr 2016
Wayward You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Price -93% 0.59€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 Apr 2016
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic) Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 21 Apr 2016
Don't Starve Together Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Price -90% 1.49€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Apr 2016
March of the Living Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Price -92% 1.22€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Apr 2016
Zombie Training Simulator Are you ready for the zombie apocalypse? We've done the research and want to make sure you're prepared. When the news reports the zombies are here and your friend gives you a call, "They're here. I need you," how will you respond? That's right, you'll say "On my way. We've got this thanks to ZTS!"

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Apr 2016
StarsOne You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.

Price -82% 1.81€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Apr 2016
Ace of Seafood In the seas of the distant future, humans have all but disappeared. In your current, newly-awakened state, you are no more than a piece of seafood. However, you have been blessed with the talent for leading your allies into battle. Do whatever it takes to become the Ace of Seafood.

Price -83% 2.04€
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Apr 2016
Age of Conquest IV Age of Conquest is a turn-based grand strategy wargame.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Apr 2016
CHKN Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Apr 2016
Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds Control a tiny ball of grey goo with the ability to eat anything smaller than itself. The more it eats, the bigger it gets! Eat rats, dinosaurs, gladiators, samurai, pyramids, volcanoes... Everything! Soon you'll be eating the entire planet.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 Mar 2016
Paws - A Shelter 2 Game Traverse a vast world as a young lynx cub. Paws – A Shelter 2 Game is a standalone, single player, adventure game with loss and friendship as its central themes. Venture out in the world and make your way home.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2016
DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark is a new standalone horror game that takes place in the DreadOut universe. In this missing chapter, you will help Linda face the challenges of the DreadOut world with even more dangers lurking within.

Price -88% 0.83€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Mar 2016
Sophie's Curse You got a job, which is to take care of an old man during the night in a recently purchased house; this house does not have electricity and you have to rely on some kind of hand crank generators to light the place up, but there is something in the darkness draining their power, don’t let it happen!

Price -59% 2.07€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Mar 2016
Sheltered Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Price -90% 1.29€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Mar 2016
Tom Clancy’s The Division™ A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 07 Mar 2016
Gunscape Gunscape provides easy-to-use tools based on a block-placement interface everybody's already familiar with to create all types of maps. Don't like building stuff? Then just blast your way through hordes of monsters or duel with other players!

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 6.4
Release 01 Mar 2016
Balrum Balrum is an old-school, turn-based, open world RPG with deep tactical combat. Explore a huge living fantasy world with dozens of side quests next to an epic main quest. Grow your own crops, build your home, and craft your own custom items.

Price -92% 1.20€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Feb 2016
Far Cry® Primal The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Feb 2016
Bear Simulator It's a game where you play as a bear and explore stuff.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Feb 2016
UnReal World The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.

Price 14.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 26 Feb 2016
Battlevoid: Harbinger Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Price -92% 0.88€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Feb 2016
The Flame in the Flood A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 7.4
Release 24 Feb 2016
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman's best-selling comic books.

Price -97% 0.55€
Rating 7.8
Release 23 Feb 2016
Gnomoria Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Feb 2016
Devil Daggers Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.

Price -73% 2.18€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 Feb 2016
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Feb 2016
Plague Inc: Evolved Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Price -64% 5.43€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Feb 2016
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration includes the base game and Season Pass featuring all-new content. Explore Croft Manor in the new “Blood Ties” story, then defend it against a zombie invasion in “Lara’s Nightmare”.

Price -97% 1.13€
Rating 9.3
Release 09 Feb 2016
Blood and Bacon This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Feb 2016

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