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In Darwin Project, ten inmates must survive the elements, track each other, fight, craft tools, and use their social skills to be the last one standing. It's a unique take on battle royale with a Show Director to influence the match and Spectator Interactions to create a one-of-a-kind game show.
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Rules Of Survival
May 30 · Netease Games
Both: Battle Royale · Survival · Massively Multiplayer
Rules of Survival is an action-packed Battle Royale game. Up to 300 unarmed players parachute into a vast battleground, where they must fight to be the last alive.
Battle RoyaleActionSurvivalMassively MultiplayerStrategyAdventureSimulationRPGFPSSexual Content👍 4,344
$49.99DayZ
Dec 13 · Bohemia Interactive
Both: Survival · Open World · PvP
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
SurvivalOpen WorldZombiesOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPost-apocalypticShooterPvPMassively MultiplayerFPS👍 387,937
ARK: The Survival Of The Fittest
Aug 29 · Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, Virtual Basement LLC
Both: Survival · Open World · Massively Multiplayer
ARK: The Survival of the Fittest is a prototype spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved, pitting up to 60 combatants against each other in a fast-paced, action-packed struggle for survival, where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown leading their Dinosaur Armies into battle.
Free to PlaySurvivalDinosaursMultiplayerOpen WorldActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerPvPDragons👍 4,625
Immune - True Survival
Dec 9 · vidiludi games and entertainment
Both: Survival · Massively Multiplayer · Open World
Experience true survival with a wink in the world of Immune - the new open-world survival online game. Survive the wastelands with the help of your friends and your hand crafted weapons. Build your own fort to defend yourself and your hard earned loot from evil mutants, bandits or reckless players.
SurvivalAdventureMassively MultiplayerZombiesOpen WorldActionRPGIndieTop-DownEarly Access👍 678
theHunter: Primal
Mar 31 · Expansive Worlds, Avalanche Studios
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Hunt - Explore - SurviveThe most realistic prehistoric survival game ever created. Featuring a huge Cretaceous environment populated by horrifying dinosaur all-stars, such as T-Rex, Triceratops, Utahraptor, Velociraptor and Quetzalcoatlus.
DinosaursSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerHuntingAdventureActionSimulationCo-opSingleplayer👍 2,964
Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale
Jul 12 · Define Human Studios
Both: Battle Royale · Survival
Drop into massive, alien-built arenas and begin the frantic search for weapons and gear - all while trying to stay one step ahead of the advancing plasma field… or the sights of other contenders. ION offers its players a skill-driven, first-person-only Battle Royale all built into a unique sci-fi universe.
Early AccessBattle RoyaleFPSMultiplayerActionSurvivalShooterIndieFirst-PersonFree to Play👍 4,728
$19.99The Isle
Dec 1 · Afterthought LLC
Both: Survival · Open World · Massively Multiplayer
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
DinosaursSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerSimulationHuntingRealisticMassively MultiplayerAdventureHorror👍 111,535
$19.99Longvinter
Feb 21 · Uuvana Studios
Both: Survival · Open World · PvP
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
MultiplayerSurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftSandboxPvPCo-opBuildingAdventure👍 6,951
$29.99Last Oasis
Mar 26 · Donkey Crew
Both: Massively Multiplayer · Survival · Open World
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Massively MultiplayerSurvivalOpen WorldRPGActionAdventureCraftingIndieBuildingMultiplayer👍 20,442
$9.99Next Day: Survival
May 21 · SOFF Games
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
SurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerPost-apocalypticCraftingShooterCo-opActionSingleplayerRPG👍 8,623
Creative Destruction
Aug 2 · NetEase Games
Both: Battle Royale · Massively Multiplayer
Welcome to the world of Creative Destruction where everything is fully destructible! Creative Destruction is a new FPS/TPS sandbox survival game that features the utmost fun of building and firing.
MultiplayerBattle RoyaleActionFree to PlayShooterFPSBuildingMassively MultiplayerFirst-PersonThird Person👍 673
$39.99Grounded
Sep 27 · Obsidian Entertainment
Both: Survival · Co-op · Open World
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
SurvivalMultiplayerCo-opOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingOpen WorldAdventureOnline Co-OpHorror👍 75,780
$14.99ARK: Survival Evolved
Aug 27 · Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, Virtual Basement LLC
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldDinosaursCraftingBuildingAdventureBase BuildingCo-op👍 586,881
$14.99Don't Starve Together
Apr 21 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Survival · Co-op · Open World
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerCo-opOpen WorldAdventureCraftingOnline Co-OpSandboxDifficult👍 376,215
$4.99Battle Royale: Survivors 究极求生:大逃杀
Aug 29 · momoStorm Entertainment
Both: Survival · Battle Royale · Massively Multiplayer
Battle Royale: Survivors is a last-man-standing top down shooter pvp survival game. Players are taken as prisoners and thrown to an abandoned island. Players must fight with whatever they can find on the island. Whoever survivals to be the last lone survivor wins the game.
SurvivalBattle RoyaleMassively MultiplayerStrategyActionAdventureEarly AccessIndieMultiplayerShooter
$29.99Sons Of The Forest
Feb 22 · Endnight Games Ltd
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
SurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerCo-opSurvival HorrorBase BuildingHorrorCraftingBuildingFirst-Person👍 284,737
$24.99Project Zomboid
Nov 8 · The Indie Stone
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
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..
SurvivalZombiesOpen WorldMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftSandboxPost-apocalypticCo-opCraftingBuilding👍 365,078
$29.99Palworld
Jul 9 · Pocketpair
Both: Open World · Survival · Co-op
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Open WorldSurvivalCreature CollectorMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpCraftingIndieCo-opAdventure👍 412,343
INTERSHELTER
Nov 20 · Eforb
Both: Massively Multiplayer · Survival · Battle Royale
Intershelter is a new post apocalyptic battle royal game. You have 30 minutes to get to the nearest of InterShelter bunkers which were created in fear of nuclear war. The situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that very few shelters exist and one rescue capsule has fifty applicants.
Early AccessActionMassively MultiplayerIndieSurvivalBattle RoyaleMultiplayer👍 211
$19.99Stars End
Jan 8 · Reverie World Studios
Both: Co-op · Massively Multiplayer · Survival
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Co-opMassively MultiplayerMultiplayerActionAdventureOnline Co-OpOpen World Survival CraftSpaceSurvivalPvP👍 1,129
FreeUnturned
Jul 7 · Smartly Dressed Games
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Free to PlaySurvivalZombiesMultiplayerOpen WorldCo-opSandboxCraftingShooterPost-apocalyptic👍 7,492
$44.99ARK: Survival Ascended
Oct 25 · Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, Instinct Games
Both: Survival · Open World
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
SurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerDinosaursBase BuildingCraftingBuildingAdventureSandboxAction👍 106,877
$34.99ICARUS
Dec 3 · RocketWerkz
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerBase BuildingOnline Co-OpCraftingOpen WorldExplorationCo-opBuilding👍 55,930
$23.99The Planet Crafter
Apr 10 · Miju Games
Both: Survival · Co-op · Open World
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Base BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpCo-opBuildingCraftingSpaceOpen WorldExploration👍 68,913
$9.99Arctico
Feb 15 · Claudio Norori, Antonio Vargas
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerSurvivalOpen WorldCo-opAdventureIndieExplorationNatureAtmospheric👍 2,208
$2.99Hand Simulator: Survival
Dec 17 · HFM Games
Both: Survival · PvP
Wild island. Thirst and hunger. Dangerous animals and insects. The perfect place to test your survival skills, especially if you only have empty hands, especially if it is a hand simulator.
SurvivalMultiplayerAdventureSimulationPvPFunnyRPGActionIndieFirst-Person👍 7,500
-75%$3.74How to Survive 2
Sep 8 · Eko Software
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
SurvivalZombiesMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOpen WorldCo-opCraftingActionRPGAdventure👍 8,643
$24.99The Wild Eight
Oct 3 · Eight Points
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerOpen WorldCo-opMysteryAdventureCraftingOnline Co-OpSandbox👍 6,753
$9.99Radiation Island
Nov 29 · Atypical Games
Both: Survival · Open World
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftAdventureActionIndieZombiesOpen WorldSingleplayerCraftingMultiplayer👍 586
$19.99Project Castaway
Mar 17 · Mardonpol Inc.
Both: Co-op · Survival · Open World
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Open World Survival CraftCo-opOnline Co-OpExplorationSurvivalSandboxFirst-PersonOpen WorldMultiplayerBase Building👍 1,820
$16.99No One Survived
Dec 27 · Cat Play Studio
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
SurvivalOpen WorldZombiesMultiplayerCraftingSurvival HorrorPost-apocalypticExplorationBuildingCo-op👍 6,970
$2.99Another Try
Apr 19 · Hoki Wolf Studio
Both: Massively Multiplayer · Survival · Open World
The virus has devastated cities and lands, you are one of the last survivors! You will have to survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world populated by the living dead.
Massively MultiplayerAdventureActionIndieSurvivalCraftingMultiplayerZombiesOpen WorldPost-apocalyptic👍 290
$14.99Shelter
Aug 28 · Might and Delight
Both: Survival · Open World
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?
AdventureSurvivalNatureExplorationOpen WorldSimulationSingleplayerCuteFamily FriendlyAtmospheric👍 2,684
$4.99Better Late Than DEAD
Mar 3 · Odin Game Studio
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.
SurvivalOpen WorldCraftingMultiplayerActionAdventureSandboxZombiesCo-opIndie👍 608
$24.99Survive the Fall
May 22 · Angry Bulls Studio
Both: Survival · Open World
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
SingleplayerSurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPost-apocalypticStealthActionRPGCrafting👍 592
$10.99Mist Survival
Aug 14 · Dimension 32 Entertainment
Both: Survival · Open World
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftZombiesOpen WorldSingleplayerBase BuildingCraftingSandboxAdventureEarly Access👍 13,676