Best survival computer games

Conan himself makes an appearance to cut you down. From then on, it is all survival mode with a steep learning curve. What makes Exiles so unique is the fact the weather can literally kill you. Deadly sandstorms and crippling temperatures require shelters built.

Play in single player or multiplayer, either in PvE or PvP servers. Seek out gods that roam the world and summon them in epic sieges.

The violence is a given; the nudity can be scaled from none, partial and full monty. The Mythical Woman of the Eternal Wink. Quite the skin condition… has he tried lotion?

This game seems to be the Steampunk lovechild of Warcraft and any tower defense model. You begin with one building and a handful of units.

In this Steampunk adventure, it is important to pause often. Hordes of zombies lurk around any corner; the farther you roam, the stronger and faster they become. Collect resources, build tactical structures such as walls and defense towers and hire the few living, if not insane, to help defend your colony. Currently, this game is still in Early Access and the Survival mode is much more fleshed out than Campaign.

There seems only to be a single-player mode for the time being-- it does not appear there are any plans to change this. The Girl Scouts around here sure are aggressive…. Several artists designed these buildings to be grandiose and beautiful. What will we do when the planet Earth is inevitably destroyed? Panic, obviously; but beyond that, if any of us are alive, we would need colonies. Oh, look! An asteroid.

That looks like the perfect place. Three plucky survivors narrowly escape death and decide to dig into an asteroid for a way to continue the human race. With access to limited resources such as oxygen, water and food, they have to dig, think and build fast. Control the temperature, oxygen, food and even waste your people produce while keeping them happy. Too much stress in your colony could spell disaster. While most survival games embrace the gravitas the name implies, Oxygen Not Included approaches life and death with a cute tongue-in-cheek attitude.

The animations are adorable as they struggle to survive. The plant on the left can make the colonists happy. In more ways than one…. A scene between mother and daughter.

Someone is getting grounded from the Painting room. Choose one of three nations, choose passive abilities to customize your character with no rigid class system and craft materials for yourself and your guild.

Fight for resource nodes and defend your territory from the others. Fight the various natural and mythological creatures of the world and make a name for yourself. Your game, your rules. With a heavy European population, this game brings together people from many aspects of life. You can create a guild for the folks at work or branch out and meet new people. Fear not, newbies! Although it is still in early access, progress is being made all the time.

The developers are thoroughly mitigating the glitches before release. Hone your skills, develop your character and learn everything. Men, move out! We shall hear the lamentations of their women!

You begin with nothing except the clothes on your back in this game; from the beginning, it is all about staying alive. Interactions with demons, spooky monsters lurking through the map and mythical, larger-than-life figures with their own lore and abilities are a joy to discover. The haunting atmosphere juxtaposed with the animations make for some fascinating results.

The characters have their own compelling backstories and powers and each of them have different handicaps. Play them all to see who fits best. Experience the joy of wiping out an entire species. Craft your devices to do the hard work for you.

Skip to main content. Level up. Earn rewards. Your XP: 0. Updated: 12 Feb am. These games are all about Darwin's theory. With a handful of cold, hungry, unhappy people, you'll need to construct a working city inside a snow-filled crater heated only by a massive coal furnace.

Gather resources, hunt for food, and manage your citizens by giving them hope for the future. It's a harsh and beautiful survival game that confronts you with difficult choices at every turn.

Further reading: Frostpunk review: an incredibly stylish and addictive survival management game. In a sentence: A brutal and hyper-realistic shooter all about hoarding and managing loot Status: In beta Link: Official site.

Escape from Tarkov is a savage evolution of survival games with just a pinch of battle royale thrown in for flavor. Instead of playing in a persistent world, you spawn on a map with a few other players and several dozen enemy NPCs. To survive, you have to reach an exfiltration zone on the other end of the map, but you also get to keep anything you loot to sell on a player-driven marketplace or use in subsequent rounds.

It's a lot like poker only way scarier. What really sells Tarkov, though, is it's hyper-realistic gunplay and ridiculously deep gun customization. Further reading: How I became an arms dealer in Escape from Tarkov. Sounds strange to say it, but this fantasy RPG where you can never actually die is one of the best recent survival games around. In Outward you're not only challenged by mystical monsters but the world itself, in which you must keep yourself fed, hydrated, and healthy.

In the arid deserts heat will sap your endurance, in the marshy swamplands the water can poison you, and with no fast-travel or quest markers or even your own location shown on your map, each excursion is an exercise in preparation, patience, and survival. It's been five years of Early Access, but RimWorld has finally reached version 1. In this management and survival sim you oversee a colony of randomly generated people stranded on a procedural alien planet.

Expand the base, keep your colonists healthy and sane, and deal with disasters thrown your way by RimWorld's AI director, which can include anything from disease outbreaks to alien attacks to weather events.

The toughest challenge may be just making your colonists simply get along with each other: each one has a distinct personality, desires, and moods.

Further reading : Making a clan of cannibals with RimWorld's scenario editor. It sounds almost idyllic, floating through the world serenely on a raft, building and expanding upon it as you fish flotsam from the ocean with a grappling hook. There are sharks, though. Hungry ones, and if they can't eat you they'll settle for eating your floating home.

You'll need to somehow find food and fresh water while keeping your raft afloat and growing. Luckily, you can play co-op with a pal and double your chances for survival. Further reading : How Raft conquered the seas of Steam. In a sentence: Atmospheric survival in a Canadian post-apocalypse. Status: Released August 1, Link : Official site. With a focus on atmosphere and environmental survival, The Long Dark stands out in an increasingly crowded genre.

You play as a bush pilot stranded in the frozen wilderness after a mysterious global calamity. There are no zombies, no mutants, and no other players: it's just you fighting against the elements, the wildlife, and your own human fragility. Further reading: Survival gets serious in The Long Dark. In a sentence: Keep a handful of 3D-printed colonists alive in a dangerous and expanding underground colony Status: Released on July 30, Link : Official site.

You begin the game in an airplane, which, of course, crashes. A global event has essentially destroyed all electronics, and the game wastes no time. You have to crawl out of the wreckage and get shelter, or you freeze to death. But shelter is nothing without fire—at least, not in a blizzard. The game has a story mode as well, but where it really shines is in its sandbox approach.

Your only task is to stay alive for as long as you can. The first on our list to feature zombies, State of Decay 2 is a game that wastes no time. There is a faint storyline, but the focus is put squarely on surviving an onslaught of walking dead. One neat feature of the game is that you play as one of four characters, each with their own abilities and stats. This gives the game some nice added tension. He is soon reluctantly tasked with transporting a girl who appears to be immune to the zombie virus across the country, where her unique ability might be the key to saving humanity.

Joel is no superhuman, either. Of course, this is the sequel to the very popular The Last of Us. Still a Playstation exclusive, The Last of Us 2 takes place years after the events of the first game. Things are grittier, darker, and for the characters, even more brutal.

In this outing, surviving the zombies is the easy part. You can buy it here. In Days Gone , you play as a grizzled ex-biker in a post-apocalyptic world, filled with—you guessed it—zombies. The game is fully open-world, so missions and progression are left up to the player. Do what you want, but be careful. In Rust , there is no story. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.

FarSky is a short survival game in the depths of the Ocean. Collect all the pieces of your submarine and reach back the surface. Windows Mac Linux. Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!

A blend of Metroidvania adventure and procedural survival game, in Exotic Matter you will explore, craft, fight, solve puzzles and survive. As the sole survivor of a last-ditch expedition to an alien planet, your duty is to find a powerful alien material that could save Earth from destruction. Developer: Moebiusgames, Publisher: Moebiusgames, Game website.

So please make sure you have a 64bit OS. Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Developer: Bitbox Ltd. Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West. LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game.

Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

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