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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The Walking Dead: Season Two The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.

Price -75% 3.76€
Rating 9.4
Release 17 Dec 2013
Race The Sun You are a solar-powered craft. The sun is your death timer. Hurtle towards the sunset at breakneck speed in a futile race against time. Delay the inevitable by catching speed boosts which reverse the setting sun - if only for a moment. Don't crash, stay in the light, and don't slow down!

Price -77% 2.26€
Rating 9.1
Release 09 Dec 2013
Panzar PANZAR is a fantasy multiplayer third-person shooter. You get to choose from eight unique character classes, team-based PvP battles, exciting PvE adventures and regular tournaments with real prizes. Advanced RPG elements, the non-target combat system and the most modern graphics by CryEngine 3 will make your combat experience...

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 25 Nov 2013
Deadfall Adventures Deadfall Adventures is an action-driven first-person shooter, spiced up with elements from action-adventure games. Become an adventurer, hunt for treasures, explore unknown regions of the world and rescue the damsel in distress from the clutches of enemies, both earthly and not-so-earthly.

Price -97% 0.61€
Rating 7.1
Release 15 Nov 2013
Risk of Rain (2013) Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 08 Nov 2013
Project Zomboid Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Price -1% 19.33€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Nov 2013
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 ** Please note: a remastered and improved edition of this game is now available in Zombie Army Trilogy.**Experience a terrifyingly intense co-op campaign for up to four players in this gut-wrenching sequel to Steam best-seller, Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army.

Price -91% 1.46€
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Oct 2013
No More Room in Hell The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 31 Oct 2013
Slender: The Arrival Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.

Price -49% 10.01€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Oct 2013
Contagion Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

Price -75% 2.07€
Rating 7.2
Release 25 Oct 2013
Syder Arcade Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Oct 2013
Knock-knock There is an unusual cabin deep in the woods. It had served as a laboratory and a dwelling for three generations of Lodgers.But as of late the latest Lodger has been noticing weird changes in familiar surroundings; things are missing, noises and rattle heard. Something odd is coming out of the woods.

Price -87% 1.38€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Oct 2013
Doorways: Prelude Doorways is an immersive horror adventure, featuring a complex story and deep atmosphere.

Price -96% 0.48€
Rating 6.0
Release 20 Sep 2013
Zafehouse: Diaries Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...

Price -15% 1.70€
Rating 6.5
Release 06 Sep 2013
Outlast Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

Price -87% 2.03€
Rating 9.5
Release 04 Sep 2013
America's Army: Proving Grounds America’s Army: Proving Grounds is the official game of the U.S. Army and part of the highly acclaimed America’s Army game series. This free military game focuses on small unit tactical maneuvers and puts you to the test in a wide variety of new America’s Army maps and AA fan favorites.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 29 Aug 2013
Shelter Experience the wild as a badger sheltering your cubs from harm. On your journey, you will be stalked by birds of prey, encounter perils of the night, cross fierce rivers, escape forest fires and face the looming threat of starvation. Food is to be found, but is there enough for everyone?

Price -84% 2.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 28 Aug 2013
LOST PLANET® 3 The extreme and unpredictable conditions that characterized the Lost Planet series return, harsher than ever before. Lost Planet 3 reveals new truths about the foreboding planet and the colonial history of E.D.N. III.

Price -96% 1.04€
Rating 6.2
Release 26 Aug 2013
Teleglitch: Die More Edition In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

Price -87% 1.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Jul 2013
Prime World: Defenders Fight off hordes of monstrous mutants created from a strange cataclysmic event in the new tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders. Join a group of exile treasure hunters who have ventured into the capital of an ancient empire, vast with mystery and danger.

Price -87% 1.18€
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Jun 2013
Expeditions: Conquistador Conquer the New world: In the 16th Century, Spanish explorers and soldiers reached the shores of America. The search for gold, fame, and adventure drove these travelers into a treacherous wilderness where they faced hunger, disease, and dangerous predators. In their wake, the Aztec Empires lay in ruins.

Price -94% 1.38€
Rating 7.6
Release 30 May 2013
Resident Evil Revelations Resident Evil® Revelations returns redefined for PC complete with high quality HD visuals, enhanced lighting effects and an immersive sound experience.

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 May 2013
Sanctum 2 Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 May 2013
Cry of Fear Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Apr 2013
Don't Starve Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Price -75% 2.04€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Apr 2013
Resident Evil 6 Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Mar 2013
Organ Trail: Director's Cut Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Price -84% 0.67€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Mar 2013
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army ** Please note: a remastered and improved edition of this game is now available in Zombie Army Trilogy.**Featuring a co-op campaign for 1 to 4 players, Nazi Zombie Army is a horrifying new stand-alone expansion of the award-winning Sniper Elite series.

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Feb 2013
Sword of the Stars: The Pit A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Feb 2013
Dead Pixels A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.

Price -58% 1.28€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Dec 2012
Miasmata Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.

Price -94% 0.94€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Nov 2012
Far Cry 3 Discover the dark secrets of a lawless island ruled by violence and take the fight to the enemy as you try to escape. You’ll need more than luck to escape alive!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Nov 2012
Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II propels players into a near future Cold War

Price 59.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Nov 2012
Cargo Commander Alone in space, light years away from your family, armed with only your Fistcannon™; you are Cargo Corps' latest recruit, a Cargo Commander.

Price -90% 0.50€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Nov 2012
Primal Carnage A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!

Price -75% 2.04€
Rating 7.5
Release 29 Oct 2012
Deadlight “Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se

Price -85% 1.87€
Rating 7.7
Release 25 Oct 2012

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