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Which survival games actually get played?

94 survival games owned in at least 30 of the libraries read here, ranked by how many owners got past Steam’s two-hour refund window. Across all of them it’s 47%.

S7 games
  1. #1PEAK83% of 360
  2. #2RimWorld90% of 116
  3. #3DayZ84% of 129
  4. #4Project Zomboid77% of 260
  5. #5Don't Starve Together68% of 384
  6. #6RV There Yet?70% of 138
  7. #7S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl78% of 51
A19 games
  1. #8Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Zombies71% of 86
  2. #9Windrose87% of 31
  3. #10Organ Trail: Director's Cut81% of 37
  4. #11Red Risk74% of 43
  5. #12Oxygen Not Included66% of 85
  6. #13Eaten Alive74% of 35
  7. #14Barotrauma63% of 112
  8. #15Kenshi64% of 75
  9. #16Miscreated73% of 33
  10. #17Don't Starve60% of 159
  11. #18My Summer Car70% of 33
  12. #19The Isle70% of 30
  13. #20Killing Floor56% of 188
  14. #21State of Decay 258% of 53
  15. #22Green Hell55% of 120
  16. #23Frostpunk54% of 161
  17. #24The Long Dark53% of 158
  18. #25Dead Island Definitive Edition54% of 108
  19. #26State of Decay: Year-One56% of 50
B28 games
  1. #27Sheltered56% of 45
  2. #28The Final Station54% of 59
  3. #29Niffelheim56% of 36
  4. #30Deadly 3055% of 40
  5. #31Chernobylite Complete Edition55% of 44
  6. #32Distrust54% of 52
  7. #33Outward52% of 77
  8. #34How to Survive52% of 71
  9. #35Sir, You Are Being Hunted53% of 55
  10. #36Dead Age53% of 47
  11. #37Tharsis54% of 39
  12. #38How to Survive 252% of 44
  13. #39Survivalist53% of 34
  14. #40Project Winter50% of 74
  15. #41Banished50% of 60
  16. #4260 Seconds!50% of 38
  17. #43Shelter 250% of 38
  18. #44The Void49% of 35
  19. #45Stranded: Alien Dawn48% of 44
  20. #46Death Road to Canada47% of 32
  21. #47The Long Drive46% of 35
  22. #48SKYHILL45% of 38
  23. #49This War of Mine45% of 171
  24. #5060 Parsecs!44% of 55

And 4 more: Tribes of Midgard, Dead In Vinland, Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive, We Happy Few.

C24 games
  1. #55Pathologic 242% of 73
  2. #56Welcome to Basingstoke39% of 31
  3. #57Frostpunk 240% of 40
  4. #58Subterrain39% of 36
  5. #59Desolate41% of 68
  6. #60Endzone - A World Apart39% of 51
  7. #61Rain World41% of 108
  8. #62Pathologic Classic HD39% of 69
  9. #63Pacific Drive39% of 77
  10. #64Cultist Simulator38% of 56
  11. #65Voidtrain31% of 35
  12. #66Sunless Sea34% of 56

And 12 more: Cepheus Protocol, Darkwood, Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip, Mr. Prepper, 60 Seconds! Reatomized, Niche - a genetics survival game, Nether, Siege Survival: Gloria Victis, The Serpent Rogue, Metro Exodus, The Flame in the Flood, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

D16 games
  1. #79Duskers9% of 33
  2. #80Sunless Skies13% of 39
  3. #81Hand Simulator: Survival6% of 31
  4. #82Dead In Bermuda22% of 77
  5. #83Drake Hollow6% of 32
  6. #84The Pale Beyond8% of 37
  7. #85Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey 12% of 50
  8. #86Tin Can0% of 31
  9. #87S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky21% of 121
  10. #88Smoke and Sacrifice3% of 38
  11. #89HELLION7% of 56
  12. #90Kona8% of 61

And 4 more: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition, The Red Lantern.

Counted from the Steam libraries read here, by the hours Steam has on each game; free games are left out, since Steam lists one as owned only once it has been played. A game owned in only a few libraries is pulled toward the kind’s 47% as if 60 more owners had played it like the typical one, so a lucky handful can’t top the list. S is the top 8%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the next 25%, D the rest.