Survival video games

Minecraft is a sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios. Following its initial public alpha release in 2009, it was formally released in 2011 for personal computers. The game has since been ported to numerous platforms, including mobile devices and various video game consoles.

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2018 video game developed by InnerSloth

2013 action-adventure video game developed by Naughty Dog

Terraria ( ) is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Re-Logic and published by 505 Games. As a sandbox game, Terraria has no set goals. After creating the player character and choosing the game's difficulty, the player is placed in a two-dimensional, procedurally generated world where they explore, fight enemies, gather resources, and craft equipment. Players beat bosses, a tougher variety of enemies, to gain access to more items, resources, and equipment. By completing select goals, players receive access to non-player characters (NPCs) who sell items and offer services, such as he

2008 cooperative first-person shooter arcade-style video game by Valve Corporation

2020 action-adventure video game developed by Naughty Dog

2009 cooperative first-person shooter video game by Valve Corporation

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open-world survival video game in space released in 2016

action-adventure stealth video game released in 2004

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subgenre of action video games

2018 first-person survival horror video game

Subnautica is a 2018 action-adventure survival game developed and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. The player controls Ryley Robinson, a survivor of a spaceship crash on an alien oceanic planet, which they are free to explore. The main objectives are to find essential resources, survive the local flora and fauna, and find a way to escape the planet.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a community-driven, free and open-source voxel game engine, available on various platforms. Originally, Luanti was a voxel game created in October 2010 by Perttu Ahola to explore the mechanics of Minecraft. Over time, Luanti evolved from the original Minetest game into a general game engine as developers integrated new features.

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action-adventure video game by Eric Chahi

2006 roguelike management simulation video game

is an upcoming action-adventure, survival, and monster-taming game created and published by Japanese developer Pocketpair. It was announced in 2021 and launched through early access for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in January 2024, and for the PlayStation 5 in September 2024.

2019 action-adventure survival horror video game developed by SIE Bend Studio

Frostpunk is a 2018 city-building survival video game developed and published by 11 Bit Studios. Players take on the role of a leader in an alternate history set in the late 19th century, in which they must build and maintain a city during a worldwide mass cooling event, possibly caused by a volcanic winter. The player manages resources, makes choices on how to survive, and explores the area outside their city for survivors, resources, or other useful items. The game features several scenarios to undertake, each with its own stories and different challenges. The main campaign adopts a three-ac

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2014 war survival video game

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2014 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog, DLC for the video game The Last of Us

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2014 city-building strategy game

2013 video game developed by Klei Entertainment

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Valheim is an upcoming survival and sandbox video game by the Swedish developer Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Studios. It was released in early access for Linux and Microsoft Windows via Steam on 2 February 2021, and for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on 14 March 2023. A port to the Nintendo Switch 2 is scheduled to release in 2026.

Unturned is a free-to-play open world zombie survival sandbox game by Smartly Dressed Games, a studio consisting of Canadian game designer Nelson Sexton and a community administrator who goes by "MoltonMontro". It was released for Windows, macOS, and Linux in early access on July 7, 2014. The full game released three years later, on July 17, 2017. Unturned allows players to create custom maps using an in-game editor. Cosmetics and mods can also be created using the game's Unity engine, which allows them to publish creations on the Steam Workshop. A retail version of the game was released for t

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co-op sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games

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2024 video game developed by Endnight Games

2021 video game developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment

2022 action-adventure video game developed by Naughty Dog; remake version of 2013 video game The Last of Us

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2015 first person open world survival video game

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2018 video game developed by Compulsion Games

2017 survival platformer video game

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Pathologic ( – a pun on Thomas More's Utopia and the Russian word for "plague, pestilence" (мор)) is a 2005 survival game developed by Russian studio Ice-Pick Lodge. The game was released in Russia by Buka Entertainment in June 2005, followed by a localised English release from G2 Games and GMX Games in 2006. An updated version, Pathologic Classic HD, was developed by General Arcade, published by Good Shepard Entertainment, and released in October 2015. A remake of the Haruspex route was developed by Ice-Pick Lodge in the Unity game engine and released as Pathologic 2 in May 2019 by tinyBuild.

2021 video game developed by PUBG Studios

2019 open world survival video game

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