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252 Survival games reviewed and scored, best first.
252 reviews
A haunting, atmospheric car-survival roguelike whose single biggest obstacle to a wider audience isn't its horror or its driving physics — it's a save system that a large, consistent share of reviewers say makes the game genuinely incompatible with an interrupted life.
7.5 / 10
A physics-driven co-op extraction horror that wears its Lethal Company debt openly and still carved out its own identity — helped, oddly, by a store banner so deliberately ugly that half its own reviews open by apologising for it.
7.5 / 10
Jagex takes twenty-five years of RuneScape skill icons and welds them onto a Valheim-shaped survival loop. Fifteen months into Early Access, with a 1.0 date now on the calendar, the question is whether the skilling actually survived the move or just changed clothes.
7.5 / 10
A visually extraordinary, boldly original entry in Konami's horror franchise — trading the series' familiar American fog town for 1960s rural Japan, with a story from acclaimed writer Ryukishi07 and a score featuring series composer Akira Yamaoka — undercut by a combat system that reviewers on both sides of the recommendation line agree fights against the psychological dread the series has always been known for.
7.5 / 10
Endnight's sequel to The Forest is the best-looking survival-horror island you can build a base on, and its rockiest reviews — mostly written in the first weeks after launch — argued a beautiful map was hiding surprisingly little to actually do. Recent sentiment suggests the gap between the two has narrowed since.
7.5 / 10
A village builder where everything — villagers, berries, houses, monsters — is a card on a table, and you craft by dragging one onto another. Twelve dollars, 96% positive, genuinely inventive. Then your table fills up and there is no way to automate anything.
7.5 / 10
A co-op dwarven mine-by-day, defend-by-night roguelite that arrived in Early Access with 100,000 wishlists behind it and immediately delivered on the hype — reviewers keep shouting Rock and Stone, and the one real complaint is that a single class is currently doing all the digging.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely excellent, atmospheric successor to one of survival gaming's most beloved titles, selling two million copies in twelve hours — whose launch was immediately overshadowed by a well-documented controversy over an unusually restrictive EULA from publisher Krafton, set against a pre-existing, publicly reported dispute over developer bonuses that the community rallied around in real time.
7.5 / 10
A first-person open-world RPG built openly in the shape of Skyrim, but set in a bleaker, more literary Arthurian world where night itself turns hostile — ambitious, well-written and visibly under-budgeted in the faces of the people telling its story.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely frightening co-op horror game that's 93.9% positive — and whose most invested players, with sixty-hour averages, are now leaving negative reviews over the studio's use of AI-generated art.
7.5 / 10
A base-building, Factorio-flavoured action RPG that launched in October 2021 to strong acclaim, then spent nearly four years failing to deliver a promised co-op mode -- and finally did, in August 2025, bundled with a loot rework substantial enough to spark a fresh wave of complaints from the veterans who'd waited for it.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive climbing-horror roguelike in Early Access that earned an Overwhelmingly Positive badge across a massive review base, whose own biggest, most consistent complaint is that it "does not respect the player's time" — permadeath resets progress through well-tuned early content, and reviewers say newer biomes added since launch haven't been tuned as carefully as the original two.
7.5 / 10
One of the best-feeling shooters on the market, wired into a progression system that several of its own designers appear to have disagreed about — and, after two years in Early Access, finally close to 1.0.
7.5 / 10
An alien-planet survival and building sandbox — described by one of its own players as "stitched from Don't Starve, Terraria, Stardew Valley and RimWorld" — that launched into Early Access with a punishing hunger system and has spent thirteen straight days of near-daily patches turning early frustration into a genuinely glowing recent reception.
7.5 / 10
A shipwreck-survival action RPG that turns rescuing NPCs into a settlement-building system and backs it with some of the fastest, most readable real-time combat Nihon Falcom has ever shipped. The PC version carries genuine baggage from a rough 2018 launch and a since-rewritten English script, but the game underneath both has aged well.
7.5 / 10
A tense, genuinely acclaimed stealth-RTS squad tactics game in the Alien universe, undermined by a specific campaign-blocking bug that reviewers report as unfixed from launch in 2023 all the way through 2026, capable of destroying 40-plus hours of progress with no warning.
7 / 10
A post-apocalyptic colony sim where the city is a physics object first and a spreadsheet second — every beam, platform and tower obeys weight and tension, and the rising and falling tide can take a whole district down with it.
7 / 10
A one-person city-building survival game from 2014 that still holds a Very Positive Steam rating across 37,800-plus reviews, built on a genuinely unusual pitch — no money, no skill trees, no combat — that a decade of players keep bumping up against the same mid-game ceiling to enjoy.
7 / 10
A voxel colony-building strategy game crossing Minecraft's block-by-block construction with genuine tower-defense stakes, still in Early Access more than nine years after its 2017 debut — sustained by an unusually transparent weekly developer blog and a loyal Very Positive fanbase, with a persistent, still-current complaint that its mid-to-late game never quite matches the promise of its opening hours.
7 / 10
A first-person fantasy dungeon crawler where every raid ends one of two ways — you walk out through a portal with everything you found, or you die and hand it all to whoever killed you. Two years into Early Access on Steam, the extraction loop is still the sharpest thing about it, and the studio's legal history is still not fully behind it.
7 / 10
Ten years, 38 DLC packs and 924,876 reviews later, the complaint isn't the licensed horror store — DLC appears in nine of a hundred negative reviews. It's each other.
7 / 10
Motive Studio's remake of the 2008 survival-horror classic remains Very Positive across nearly 70,000 Steam reviews, widely credited as one of the finest remakes ever made — a reputation undercut by a real, severe, persistent Denuvo-caused stuttering problem and a mandatory always-online requirement for an entirely single-player game, both of which this review can confirm went unfixed after EA redirected developer Motive Studio to other projects roughly two months after launch, with the studio's own pitches for a sequel subsequently rejected.
7 / 10
A beloved hybrid of Vampire Survivors, Diablo-style gearing and Hades-style god powers, still in Early Access nearly three years after launch — with even its most loyal fans now openly asking whether it will ever actually finish.
7 / 10
An Australian-outback survival life-sim that earned four years of goodwill in Early Access, then spent most of it in six weeks when its solo developer sold publishing rights to KRAFTON and the resulting EULA sparked one of Steam's more pointed 2025 backlashes.
7 / 10
