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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 launched it at all. Across all of them it’s 64%.

S7 games
  1. #1PEAK94% of 360
  2. #2Project Zomboid95% of 260
  3. #3RimWorld97% of 116
  4. #4DayZ95% of 129
  5. #5RV There Yet?90% of 138
  6. #6Don't Starve Together85% of 384
  7. #7Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Zombies87% of 86
A19 games
  1. #8S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl92% of 51
  2. #9Don't Starve82% of 159
  3. #10Kenshi87% of 75
  4. #11Organ Trail: Director's Cut95% of 37
  5. #12Windrose97% of 31
  6. #13Eaten Alive94% of 35
  7. #14Barotrauma80% of 112
  8. #15Oxygen Not Included81% of 85
  9. #16Killing Floor77% of 188
  10. #17Sir, You Are Being Hunted84% of 55
  11. #18The Long Drive89% of 35
  12. #19Banished82% of 60
  13. #20Rain World78% of 108
  14. #21Miscreated88% of 33
  15. #22My Summer Car88% of 33
  16. #23Red Risk84% of 43
  17. #24The Isle87% of 30
  18. #25How to Survive77% of 71
  19. #26Deadly 3080% of 40
B28 games
  1. #2760 Seconds!79% of 38
  2. #28Shelter 279% of 38
  3. #29Dead Island Definitive Edition73% of 108
  4. #30Frostpunk71% of 161
  5. #31Death Road to Canada78% of 32
  6. #32Outward71% of 77
  7. #33Green Hell70% of 120
  8. #34State of Decay 272% of 53
  9. #35This War of Mine69% of 171
  10. #36Sheltered71% of 45
  11. #37The Long Dark68% of 158
  12. #38State of Decay: Year-One70% of 50
  13. #39Chernobylite Complete Edition68% of 44
  14. #40Tharsis67% of 39
  15. #41How to Survive 266% of 44
  16. #42SKYHILL66% of 38
  17. #43Survivalist65% of 34
  18. #44The Final Station64% of 59
  19. #45Niche - a genetics survival game64% of 53
  20. #46We Happy Few64% of 39
  21. #47Dead Age64% of 47
  22. #4860 Seconds! Reatomized64% of 58
  23. #49The Void63% of 35
  24. #50Cultist Simulator63% of 56

And 4 more: Niffelheim, Distrust, Darkwood, Hand Simulator: Survival.

C24 games
  1. #55Pacific Drive60% of 77
  2. #5660 Parsecs!58% of 55
  3. #57The Flame in the Flood60% of 112
  4. #58Pathologic 259% of 73
  5. #59Nether56% of 36
  6. #60Project Winter58% of 74
  7. #61Sunless Sea57% of 56
  8. #62Desolate57% of 68
  9. #63Endzone - A World Apart55% of 51
  10. #64Pathologic Classic HD55% of 69
  11. #65Stranded: Alien Dawn52% of 44
  12. #66Subterrain50% of 36

And 12 more: Welcome to Basingstoke, Frostpunk 2, Tribes of Midgard, Dead In Vinland, Mr. Prepper, Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Cepheus Protocol, Voidtrain, The Serpent Rogue, Siege Survival: Gloria Victis, Metro Exodus.

D16 games
  1. #79Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip29% of 41
  2. #80Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey 32% of 50
  3. #81Drake Hollow22% of 32
  4. #82Sunless Skies26% of 39
  5. #83Duskers18% of 33
  6. #84Tin Can16% of 31
  7. #85S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat39% of 125
  8. #86S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky37% of 121
  9. #87The Pale Beyond14% of 37
  10. #88Smoke and Sacrifice11% of 38
  11. #89Dead In Bermuda26% of 77
  12. #90Kona21% of 61

And 4 more: HELLION, 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 64% 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.