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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 the share of its Steam reviewers who recommend it. The typical one is recommended by 82%.

S7 games
  1. #1Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive98% recommend
  2. #2RimWorld98% recommend
  3. #3Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip97% recommend
  4. #4Oxygen Not Included97% recommend
  5. #5Don't Starve97% recommend
  6. #6Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Zombies96% recommend
  7. #7S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat96% recommend
A19 games
  1. #8Kenshi96% recommend
  2. #9Killing Floor95% recommend
  3. #10My Summer Car95% recommend
  4. #11Don't Starve Together95% recommend
  5. #12Darkwood95% recommend
  6. #13S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl95% recommend
  7. #14PEAK94% recommend
  8. #1560 Seconds! Reatomized94% recommend
  9. #16Barotrauma94% recommend
  10. #17This War of Mine94% recommend
  11. #18Project Zomboid94% recommend
  12. #19Rain World94% recommend
  13. #20Death Road to Canada93% recommend
  14. #21Frostpunk93% recommend
  15. #22Pathologic 292% recommend
  16. #23Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition91% recommend
  17. #24Banished90% recommend
  18. #25Duskers90% recommend
  19. #26RV There Yet?90% recommend
B28 games
  1. #27Metro Exodus90% recommend
  2. #28The Long Dark89% recommend
  3. #2960 Parsecs!89% recommend
  4. #30The Pale Beyond89% recommend
  5. #31The Long Drive88% recommend
  6. #32Organ Trail: Director's Cut88% recommend
  7. #33The Final Station88% recommend
  8. #34Pathologic Classic HD87% recommend
  9. #35Windrose87% recommend
  10. #36Hand Simulator: Survival86% recommend
  11. #37Niche - a genetics survival game86% recommend
  12. #38Shelter 285% recommend
  13. #39S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky85% recommend
  14. #4060 Seconds!85% recommend
  15. #41Green Hell85% recommend
  16. #42Sunless Skies84% recommend
  17. #43Tin Can84% recommend
  18. #44Stranded: Alien Dawn84% recommend
  19. #45Pacific Drive83% recommend
  20. #46Sunless Sea83% recommend
  21. #47Kona83% recommend
  22. #48How to Survive83% recommend
  23. #49State of Decay 283% recommend
  24. #50State of Decay: Year-One82% recommend

And 4 more: Project Winter, Chernobylite Complete Edition, Dead Island Definitive Edition, Sheltered.

C24 games
  1. #55Dead Age82% recommend
  2. #56The Red Lantern80% recommend
  3. #57The Isle80% recommend
  4. #58Survivalist80% recommend
  5. #59The Void80% recommend
  6. #60S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl80% recommend
  7. #61Mr. Prepper80% recommend
  8. #62Cultist Simulator80% recommend
  9. #63Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey 79% recommend
  10. #64Siege Survival: Gloria Victis79% recommend
  11. #65SKYHILL78% recommend
  12. #66DayZ78% recommend

And 12 more: Sir, You Are Being Hunted, Drake Hollow, Deadly 30, We Happy Few, Dead In Vinland, Endzone - A World Apart, Tribes of Midgard, The Flame in the Flood, Subterrain, Smoke and Sacrifice, Cepheus Protocol, Frostpunk 2.

D16 games
  1. #79Voidtrain73% recommend
  2. #80Outward73% recommend
  3. #81Distrust72% recommend
  4. #82Niffelheim71% recommend
  5. #83Dead In Bermuda71% recommend
  6. #84Welcome to Basingstoke70% recommend
  7. #85Tharsis70% recommend
  8. #86How to Survive 269% recommend
  9. #87Desolate66% recommend
  10. #88Miscreated66% recommend
  11. #89S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition63% recommend
  12. #90Red Risk58% recommend

And 4 more: HELLION, The Serpent Rogue, Nether, Eaten Alive.

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. Recommended is the share of each game’s Steam reviewers who recommend it.