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. 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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Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.

Price -51% 4.86€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Apr 2012
Alan Wake A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.

Price -94% 0.80€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Feb 2012
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) The best-selling first-person action series of all-time returns with an epic sequel to the multiple GOTY award winner Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2

Price 39.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Nov 2011
The Haunted: Hells Reach Winner of 2010′s Make Something Unreal contest, The Haunted: Hells Reach is a fast-paced horror game where your goal is to liberate cursed places and survive the assault of Hell.

Price -2% 8.83€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Oct 2011
Dungeon Defenders Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

Price -18% 12.16€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Oct 2011
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.

Price -98% 0.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Oct 2011
RAGE Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!

Price -89% 1.13€
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Oct 2011
The Binding of Isaac Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 28 Sep 2011
Terraria Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Price -51% 4.87€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 May 2011
Dwarfs!? Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!

Price -97% 0.25€
Rating 7.4
Release 04 May 2011
Sanctum You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.

Price -82% 1.82€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Apr 2011
Dino D-Day Frantic, multiplayer action involving Nazis and dinosaurs! What are you waiting for? This is World War II as it should have been!

Price -94% 0.67€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Apr 2011
Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition Aliens are decimating New York City, only you have the technology to survive. Be The Weapon.

Price -78% 6.78€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Mar 2011
Homefront The Rock Map Pack is Now Available! Join the Resistance, stand united and fight for freedom against an overwhelming military force.

Price -96% 0.96€
Rating 6.0
Release 14 Mar 2011
RIFT Dive into a world of epic adventure! Create your perfect hero thanks to a uniquely customizable class system. Collect, craft, and customize your gear. Go it alone or group up to challenge dungeons, raids, dynamic open-world content, and your fellow players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 01 Mar 2011
Dead Space™ 2 Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 27 Jan 2011
Fallout: New Vegas Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Price -89% 1.19€
Rating 9.5
Release 21 Oct 2010
Dead Rising® 2 The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 Sep 2010
Alien Swarm Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 19 Jul 2010
Aliens vs. Predator™ Survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps in distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Feb 2010
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the direct sequel of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Major Alexander Degtyarev you should investigate the crash of the governmental helicopters around the Zone and find out, what happened there.

Price -53% 9.59€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Feb 2010
Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000 Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000 features the Colonial Marine, Alien and Predator Campaigns and the frenetic single-player Skirmish mode from the original title: Alien Versus Predator Gold Edition, which was released to massive acclaim in 2000.

Price -83% 0.87€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Jan 2010
The Void Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Dec 2009
Left 4 Dead 2 Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Left 4 Dead, the #1 co-op game of 2008. This co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 Nov 2009