Top 10 Survival Video Games
This is a list about the top 10 best survival games. Please don't hate if your opinion is different as you can just respectfully disagree. So without any hesitation here are the top 10 survival games of all time
This is what Stranded Deep should have been. This game is a breath of fresh air after all the crappy zombie survival games out there. I have always loved the sea and the water, although I would never swim in this sea, I can tell you that much. It has a simple (but good) crafting system, and unlike most games like this, it has variety with the whole alien sea ocean. You will meet new creatures constantly that will either kill you or you will kill them. If you like underwater survival, then Subnautica is the way to go.
This, to me, is what a survival game should be. Hunting, scavenging, protecting your house from the undead, and most importantly, working together. That seems to be something other survival games miss. But what makes 7 Days to Die unique is that the zombies are different depending on the time of day.
During the day, they are slow-walking shamblers, but when night falls, they turn into sprinting zombies. They also come in greater numbers during the night. It's this kind of change that makes you run to the quickest safe spot in the game. Of course, you can put the zombies on never run if you are (you know) a coward.
Three survival games that are not about surviving against zombies. Go originality. In the case of The Long Dark, you are a survivor trapped in a post-apocalyptic Earth covered in snow. You must do everything you can to survive this harsh winter in a national park.
The game has a nice art style called cell-shaded, which, while not original, makes the game look nicer than it really does. There is a lot you have to keep in mind here. You have to make sure you don't get cold from the snow, keep your calories in check, or else you might starve to death, and manage your fatigue, or you might die from being too tired. There is a lot of stuff in this game, which ultimately puts it at number five because I can't look after so much stuff. I am no robot, although that does show my intelligence level, doesn't it?
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. And that is exactly what this game is. The best way to describe No More Room In Hell is to imagine Left 4 Dead but with smaller maps, very little ammo, big reliance on melee weapons, and generally terrifying scenarios. That is No More Room In Hell in a nutshell. This game is arguably the best free-to-play zombie game out there.
But I gotta warn you, if you don't like hard games, then this game isn't the one for you. For me, though, this is a bargain.
It's easy to say but hard to do. In Don't Starve, your character (a scientist of some sort) has to survive in a forest or something by, of course, not starving. But this isn't going to be easy, as your hunger meter depletes rather fast and you need to find food somewhere. Luckily, the forest is filled with fruit, trees, and animals you can kill or harvest for later.
Be careful of what you eat, though, because a food may restore your hunger but may also drive you into madness where imaginary monsters will attack you and possibly kill you. What I like about Don't Starve is the art style. I have not seen anything like it in a while. That alone makes this survival game worth a try.
The first and only free flash game on this list, although it looks more like a polished indie game that I would at least pay two dollars for. In this game, you must find your wife, who has been trapped in the zombie-infested city. But on your way, you will encounter zombies who will do anything to get your face.
You will meet other survivors who, for a little favor (side quest), will join to help you. You are human after all, so you will need to look after your hunger and rest bar. You can rest in safe houses which are scattered around on the map. This is a game that anybody should check out because it's totally 100 percent free, and you don't even need to install it. Just go to Kongregate.com and play it.
This game just recently (and by recently, I mean yesterday) came out on Steam as an early access survival game. Before you jump into a pool of lava, let me explain. It's not an FPS survival game (thank god), but a kind of strategy reclaim area from zombies game. It is the most original zombie survival game that you are going to get so far, so buy it or don't. It's up to you.
Probably the most original game on my list, This War of Mine is about surviving in a war and portrays this concept very realistically. It is packed with outright depressing moments where the characters want to just kill themselves. You have to reason with them by talking to them, and this does not always work if the characters are too depressed.
Besides the painful suffering in this game, you also have to collect supplies and materials to survive. Sometimes this requires robbing someone's house or killing their loved one who has done nothing to you, but without killing them, you can't take that one can of vegetables. This is what leads to the previously mentioned depression part of the game. It is really depressing and really awesome.
The Newcomers
The game has been released and it's finished. Great game! Played it for over 300 hours.
Great graphics, great gameplay, very realistic.
I voted for this. Great game and the devs are improving this game a lot lately.
The game that needs no introduction. Minecraft is a force unto itself.
There's nothing quite like the scope or substance of Minecraft's survival: discovering an arduous hillside or a cavernous fortress, and then making your way safely back, is the ultimate survival game experience. Not to mention Creepers, who have become an emblem of the genre, capturing people's imagination the world over.
Minecraft is the quintessential survival game, and we could spend years bunkered in its world.
I like to think of Minecraft as more of a "build your own adventure" game. But I think it definitely deserves a spot on this list, maybe around the 7 or 8 spot.
This might be one of the most realistic zombie survival games of all time (well, as realistic as a zombie game can get). It is full of so many choices I cannot even count. You can rip the sheets off a bed to make a curtain, harvest plants to your heart's content, and rip your shirt off to make a rope. That is the level of simulation we are talking about, guys.
Only one problem: The graphics are terrible. I usually don't see graphics as an important part of a game, but in a zombie game, better graphics can raise my opinion about the game more than a zombie game with poor graphics. So sorry, Project Zomboid, you are just going to have to sit at number nine.
Ever wondered what would happen if your city was nuked? Well, don't worry because 60 Seconds has got the answer. But why is it called 60 Seconds? Let me explain.
The game is divided into two parts: scavenging, where you have 60 seconds to collect all the supplies in your house and be in the shelter once the time runs out, and survival, in which you are stuck in the vault until somebody comes to save you. While you are in there, you have to survive on the things you have gathered.
This game just recently came out on Steam, and I have been having the time of my life playing it. It is so much fun, and for $8.99, what more could you ask for?
Most beautiful space-focused survival game I see. You can travel through planets with your ship. The story mode is integrated with a sandbox unlimited universe (not world :) ).
With races and a big modding community, it's just awesome. I recommend this awesome game.
Great survival game. Terrible developers.
