Top-Rated Free Survival Games on Steam
189 free Survival games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.
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SCP – Containment Breach - A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Feb 20, 2026
Legend Battles - Free-to-play UE 5.6 Extraction Battle Royale in 400 km² neo-futuristic world with destructible environment and vehicles, massive ET-ACUs, armored Aliens, ferocious Monsters, heavily armed MetaHumans, complete missions to attack, defend, loot, extract facing dynamic weathers.
Jan 16, 2026
Power Fantasy - Survive hordes of blood hungry enemies and hope for the best upgrades while you level up! Power Fantasy is a fresh rogue-survivors-like with unique heroes and tons of customization.
Dec 4, 2025
Deadswitch Combat - DEADSWITCH COMBAT is a fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter. Experience action-packed combat with hundreds of weapons, vehicle combat, and plenty of team-based game modes.
Sep 26, 2025
Arena Breakout: Infinite - Arena Breakout: Infinite is a high-stakes tactical extraction shooter where every decision matters. Fight, loot, and extract—or lose it all. With stunningly realistic visuals, lifelike sound, and unforgiving PvPvE combat, every raid is a gamble between glory and ruin.
Sep 15, 2025
Vigil - Vigil is a short Narrative Horror Game that takes place in an unsettling underground facility. Your job is to dispose of boxes, however, you’re not alone. A terrifying automaton roams the facility, moving only when you look away or when you blink in real life.
Aug 15, 2025
Skull Hotel - Skull Hotel is a horror game where you clean hotel rooms while creatures hide, waiting to kill you.
Jul 15, 2025
Daisho: Survival of a Samurai - Daisho: Survival of a Samurai is an Action RPG with casual survival game mechanics and big village-building possibilities. You'll experience a new type of survival game with quests, continuous open world progression, monthly events and your dumb ways to die not harming your fun level.
Jun 10, 2025
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware - Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Apr 30, 2025
waxweaver - A short sandbox rpg game that takes place on a square planet. Explore the world, gather resources, build a home and become stronger.
Apr 10, 2025
Pathologic 3: Quarantine - In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.
Mar 17, 2025
Skill Legends Royale - This is a free multiplayer PvP strategy game that incorporates rogue-like and auto chess elements, players need to equip their auto-battling heroes with the right treasures and skills to ultimately defeat all other players and become the champion.
Nov 4, 2024
Haven & Hearth - A free-to-play MMORPG with crafting, building, landscaping, foraging, hunting, fishing, a dash of poetry, and open PvP combat,
Nov 1, 2024
Faaast Penguin - Welcome to a wild penguin vacation! Faaast Penguin is a thrilling survival racing game where up to 40 players compete for the top spot. With full cross-platform support, race against players from around the world!
Sep 19, 2024
Industry Idle - Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Sep 13, 2024
The Walking Dead: No Man's Land - Step into the dangerous world of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land. Lead survivors in turn-based strategy battles, manage resources, and make tough choices to ensure their survival. Fight walkers, build your base, and face endless dangers.
Jul 30, 2024
Super Sus - Welcome to join the multiplayer social deduction game - Super Sus! Engage in intense gameplay with global players, as you strategize to safeguard your spaceship from the cunning Impostors determined to sabotage the mission and eliminate everyone aboard!
Jul 30, 2024
Prospector: The First Contract - As the Prospector in this Prologue chapter, you will be taking on your first contract. Explore new planets, gather resources, build your fully automated base, and ship materials to distant colonies.
Jul 12, 2024
Once Human - Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Jul 9, 2024
Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue - Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Jun 24, 2024
Astrometica: Prologue - Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
May 22, 2024
Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure - A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free prologue immersing you into the vast world of Tinkerlands. Uncover the story of the first survivors on these mystical islands. Explore the breathtaking archipelago, craft essential tools, build your settlement, and strive to survive!
Apr 12, 2024
FROM ASHES, BLOOM - A minimalist rogue-like tower defense where you protect Earth against humanity.
Mar 11, 2024
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator: Prologue - Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?
Jan 23, 2024
United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up - This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Dec 19, 2023
Taora : Beginning - Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!
Dec 8, 2023
Gatekeeper: Infinity - Prologue version of the game Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper: Infinity is a fast-paced rogue-lite shooter where you'll search for the stolen Heart of the Universe and battle machine enemies! Play solo or join forces with friends in co-op mode.
Nov 10, 2023
King of Crabs - Battle Royale with crabs! Intense multiplayer action, with up to 100 players! Scrap, scavenge and slaughter your way to becoming the King of Crabs!
Sep 25, 2023
Farlight 84 - Hey Lightcatchers! Are you ready for massive 60-player shootouts? Enjoy fast-paced hero shooter action in Farlight 84!
Sep 21, 2023
Beecarbonize - Do you have what it takes to save the planet? Beecarbonize is an environmental card strategy game with climate change as your opponent.
Aug 1, 2023
Eternal Return - Eternal Return is a free-to-play, 2.5D perspective Battle Royale game. Search, Craft, Hunt, and Fight using a variety of characters. Plan your strategy and become the last survivor on this eternal experiment.
Jul 19, 2023
Quasimorph: End of Dream - Quasimorph: End of Dream is the first chapter of the extraction turn-based RPG Quasimorph. Confront your fears in brutal shootouts with PMC -fighters and demons and try to survive to complete your mission and bring the gear back to your spaceship!
May 31, 2023
Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha - Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.
Apr 15, 2023
The Test: Secrets of the Soul 2 - You will answer questions that will reveal things deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to once again unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Apr 10, 2023
Above Snakes: Prologue - In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.
Mar 24, 2023
Miniland Adventure: Prologue - Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!
Mar 13, 2023
Gatekeeper: Eclipse - Fast-paced rogue-lite shooter. Gatekeeper: Eclipse is a prologue ver. of the game Gatekeeper. Go on a quest to find the stolen Heart of the Universe and shoot your way through the hordes of machine enemies!
Feb 27, 2023
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE - EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
Jan 6, 2023
SCP: Labrat - You are a test subject in the underground SCP research facility. When a containment breach occurs, you must find your way out. Escape the SCPs, discover anomalous objects, and collect valuable resources along the way.
Dec 24, 2022
Bounty game - Have you ever dreamed of becoming rich overnight? Join the Bounty game! Here you can play battle royale with other people. with the same dream There will be only one big prize in the competition!! Join the bounty game and be a winner!!
Dec 23, 2022
Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission - Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission is a prologue chapter of the main game, Nova Lands. Learn your way around the planet you've landed on, build your base, and automate it with your helpful bots!
Oct 17, 2022
Oxygen: First Breath - This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Oct 7, 2022
SCP: Containment Breach Remastered - SCP - Containment Breach is a free survival horror game based on the works of the SCP Foundation community. Your goal is to escape an SCP Foundation containment site doing whatever it takes to do so. Avoid tons of obstacles on your way to freedom.
Aug 4, 2022
Impact Point - IMPACT POINT! – An ultra satisfying, fast paced, 2-4 player, arena based, multiplayer, top down 2D shooter. Grab what you can and battle it out with 2-4 players to be the last man standing in a game heavily inspired by retro and vaporwave shooters.
Jul 20, 2022
Fray Fight - Battle the evil hordes on your way to Valhalla. Annihilate thousands of monsters with overpowered attacks and upgrades.
Jun 9, 2022
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt - Bloodhunt is a thrilling free-to-play battle royale game set in Prague consumed by a ruthless war between vampire factions. Use your supernatural powers, weapons, and wit to hunt your rivals and dominate the night!
Apr 27, 2022
The Genesis Project - The Genesis Project is an attempt to replicate Sburb from the popular webcomic Homestuck, made by Andrew Hussie.
Apr 13, 2022
Spirit Detective - Spirit Detective is a realistic Oriental culture, 1V5 asymmetric competitive game launched by （Hong Kong）GKD. The game is based on the all-embracing traditional Oriental culture and designed to let players experience the charm of traditional Oriental strange culture.
Mar 16, 2022
BrainBread 2 - Grab a weapon, demolish your enemies, level up, become more powerful, let the gore flow, let the limbs fly. BrainBread 2 introduces a zombie fps mixed with RPG / Arcade elements, the game is very action-packed and generally fast-paced.
Mar 9, 2022
Citywars Tower Defense - Citywars TD is a cute multiplayer third person Survival Tower Defense. Build towers, gather resources, craft tools, upgrade weapons, level up buildings, expand your city with your friends and work under pressure before the next incoming wave of monsters.
Mar 3, 2022
