Top-Rated Free Survival Games on Steam

192 free Survival games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.

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Nazi Zombies - Players say: Survive escalating zombie waves alone or in co-op, earning points to repair barriers, buy gear, and open new areas. Players like: Old-School Zombies Feel · Co-op With Friends · Retro Low-Poly Style ·
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Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.

SCP – Containment Breach - Players say: As a Class-D subject in a breached SCP facility, scavenge access items, evade anomalies, and manage blinking to escape. Players like: Unsettling Atmosphere · Blinking Under Threat · Community Bug Fixes ·
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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?

Legend Battles - Players say: Fight alien forces across a futuristic city, taking on assault, defense, and looting missions before trying to extract. Players like: Enemy AI Encounters · Fast Vehicle Traversal · Tense Extraction Missions ·
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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.

Power Fantasy - Players say: Choose a hero, dodge enemy projectiles, and survive escalating hordes by drafting upgrades across repeatable roguelike runs. Players like: Heavy Metal Soundtrack · Addictive Horde Combat · Unlockable Heroes ·
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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.

Deadswitch Combat - Players say: Fight through fast 2D side-scrolling battles in PvP, co-op survival, and solo missions, with customizable weapons and vehicles. Players like: Punchy Gunplay · Nostalgic 2D Shooter · Mode Variety ·
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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.

Arena Breakout: Infinite - Players say: Enter Kamona for PvPvE raids: customize a firearm, scavenge for valuables, and extract before opponents or AI take you down. Players like: Gunplay And Weapons · Tense Extraction Raids · Weapon Customization ·
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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.

Vigil - Players say: Dispose of boxes in an underground facility while watching a stalking automaton that advances whenever you blink or look away. Players like: Webcam Blink Mechanic · Tense Horror Atmosphere · Creepy Automaton Design ·
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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.

Skull Hotel - Players say: Clean eight hotel rooms, inspect each for a hidden monster, and flee any anomaly before it ends your shift. Players like: Sudden Monster Scares · Tense Sound Design · Hidden-Spot Searching ·
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Skull Hotel is a horror game where you clean hotel rooms while creatures hide, waiting to kill you.

Daisho: Survival of a Samurai - Players say: Gather resources, craft weapons, fight bandits, and grow a Japanese village in a quest-led survival RPG. Players like: Samurai Setting · Village Building · Relaxed Sessions ·
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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.

Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware - Players say: As Duncan Ironbrow, build a medieval settlement, grow its economy and army, and hold your castle against enemy waves. Players like: City-Building Defense · Tactical Base Planning · Hard-Won Victories ·
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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.

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Apr 30, 2025
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waxweaver - Players say: Explore and mine a procedurally generated square planet, craft gear, build a home, and fight bosses under shifting gravity. Players like: Distinctive Gravity · Straightforward Progression · Charming Pixel Art ·
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A short sandbox rpg game that takes place on a square planet. Explore the world, gather resources, build a home and become stronger.

Pathologic 3: Quarantine - Players say: As doctor Daniil Dankovsky, investigate a plague-struck town by diagnosing patients, uncovering secrets, and revisiting events. Players like: Patient Diagnosis · Plague Atmosphere · New Story Perspective ·
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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.

Blood Strike - Players say: Choose a Striker, customize weapons, and use fast movement and character abilities across Battle Royale and team-based modes. Players like: Fast, Fluid Movement · Low-End PC Performance · Responsive Gunplay ·
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Gather your friends and dive into the action-packed Battle Royale, Squad Fight, or Hot Zone like there's no tomorrow! Blood Strike offers a wide range of playable Strikers, each with a unique active and passive ability letting you deploy drones, shield walls and everything in between.

Viking Frontiers: Prologue - Players say: After washing ashore in the North, lead a Viking clan by gathering, crafting, hunting, and building a settlement through survival challenges. Players like: Viking Atmosphere · Building and Crafting · Varied Survival Activities ·
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Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Skill Legends Royale - Players say: Build a hero from randomized skills and treasures, then watch it auto-battle seven rivals in an eight-player PvP match. Players like: Build Variety · Strategic Counterplay · Relaxed Auto-Battles ·
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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.

Haven & Hearth - Players say: Build a homestead in a mutable online wilderness, gathering and crafting to grow stronger amid open PvP and permanent death. Players like: Deep Crafting Systems · Quality-Based Progression · Worldbuilding and Exploration ·
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A free-to-play MMORPG with crafting, building, landscaping, foraging, hunting, fishing, a dash of poetry, and open PvP combat,

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Nov 1, 2024
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Faaast Penguin - Players say: Race downhill as a penguin in 40-player elimination tours, stomping rivals for speed boosts and chaining jumps through shortcuts. Players like: Fun With Friends · Fast Simple Races · Cute Penguin Characters ·
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A 40-player survival action race. Stomp rivals, boost speed, chain attacks, and take shortcuts! Master the courses and make split-second decisions to win. The more you play, the deeper the gameplay becomes. It's free to play and cross-platform compatible! Dive in now with players worldwide!

Industry Idle - Players say: Build an industrial economy by placing factories, balancing resource chains, trading goods, and restarting for lasting upgrades. Players like: Factory Optimization · Relaxed Idle Play · Player Market Trading ·
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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.

The Walking Dead: No Man's Land - Players say: Lead survivors through turn-based walker missions, strengthen your team, and keep a resource-gathering camp running. Players like: Tactical Turn-Based Combat · Walking Dead Characters · Camp and Team Growth ·
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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.

Super Sus - Players say: Crew members finish ship tasks and vote out suspected impostors as hidden killers sabotage the mission and neutral roles pursue goals. Players like: Varied Roles · Social Deduction · Fun With Friends ·
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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!

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Jul 30, 2024
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Once Human - Players say: Explore a Stardust-tainted wasteland, craft and customize guns, fight monsters, and build a relocatable base alone or with others. Players like: Creative Base Building · Atmospheric World · Solo-Co-op Flexibility ·
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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.

Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue - Players say: Survive an ocean planet’s giant waves by gathering resources, crafting tools, automating production, and transforming the terrain. Players like: Factory Automation · Base Building · Relaxing Atmosphere ·
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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.

Astrometica: Prologue - Players say: Stranded in space, gather materials, craft survival gear, follow signals, and build a base to explore asteroid fields. Players like: Exploration With Purpose · Atmospheric Space Setting · Base Building ·
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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.

Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure - Players say: Shipwrecked on mystical islands, gather and craft supplies, battle monsters, and build a settlement for the first survivors. Players like: Pixel-Art Visuals · Relaxed Pacing · Clear Progression ·
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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!

FROM ASHES, BLOOM - Players say: Defend Earth’s oldest tree from human attackers by planting projectile-firing trees and battling waves as a tentacled creature. Players like: Fun Short Sessions · Tree-Based Defense · Colorful Cute Style ·
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A minimalist rogue-like tower defense where you protect Earth against humanity.

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Mar 11, 2024
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Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Operate a Soviet locomotive on a Siberian railway, balancing realistic driving and repairs with survival, trade, and danger. Players like: Detailed Train Controls · Siberian Atmosphere · Train-Survival Mix ·
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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?

United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up - Players say: Build a penguin settlement, manage its residents’ needs and resources, and defend it from killer whales and food-stealing seals. Players like: Charming Penguin Setting · Settlement Building · Approachable Management ·
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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.

Taora : Beginning - Players say: Scavenge a zombie-infested island, build a base, craft and upgrade gear and vehicles, and develop skills to survive. Players like: Relaxed Survival Play · Island Scavenging · Vehicle Customization ·
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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!

Gatekeeper: Infinity - Players say: Fight machine enemies across alien locations in a top-down roguelite shooter as you seek the stolen Heart of the Universe. Players like: Co-op With Friends · Distinctive Enemy Designs · Character Challenges ·
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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.

King of Crabs - Players say: Grow a fighting crab by scavenging food and weapons across an island, then battle rivals in PvE, PvP, and royale modes. Players like: Chaotic Crab Combat · Funny Weapon Finds · Crab Species Variety ·
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Battle Royale with crabs! Intense multiplayer action, with up to 100 players! Scrap, scavenge and slaughter your way to becoming the King of Crabs!

Farlight 84 - Players say: In a sci-fi battle royale, squads loot weapons, use hero abilities and tactical pets, and fight across vertical urban maps. Players like: Jetpack Mobility · Distinctive Vehicles · Casual Squad Play ·
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Hey Lightcatchers! Are you ready for massive 60-player shootouts? Enjoy fast-paced hero shooter action in Farlight 84!

Beecarbonize - Players say: Manage industry, society, science and ecosystems through climate-driven card crises as you work to cut emissions and avert collapse. Players like: Strategic Card Balancing · Multiple Victory Paths · Climate Learning ·
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Do you have what it takes to save the planet? Beecarbonize is an environmental card strategy game with climate change as your opponent.

Eternal Return - Players say: On Lumia, choose a fighter, scavenge and craft gear, hunt creatures, and battle rival teams to survive the island experiment. Players like: Distinctive Battle Royale · Character Variety · Deep Build Choices ·
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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.

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Jul 19, 2023
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Quasimorph: End of Dream - Players say: Lead a PMC through turn-based raids on space facilities, fight mercenaries and demons, and extract valuable gear to your ship. Players like: Prologue Story · Tactical Challenge · Loot Design ·
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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!

Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha - Players say: Stranded on a zombie-filled island, scavenge a changing city, craft supplies, battle bosses, and fight to reach extraction. Players like: Co-op With Friends · Replayable Survival Runs · Weapon Variety ·
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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.

The Test: Secrets of the Soul 2 - Players say: Answer personal questions in an eerie, conversational test that ends with an analysis of your responses and a gifted word. Players like: Thought-Provoking Questions · Accurate End Reading · Emotional Dialogue ·
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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..."

Above Snakes: Prologue - Players say: After a catastrophe devastates a frontier settlement, help survivors rebuild while placing world tiles, crafting, and exploring. Players like: Tile-Based Worldbuilding · Relaxed Exploration · Crafting and Building ·
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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.

Miniland Adventure: Prologue - Players say: Shape a tiny island with biome tiles, then gather, craft, farm, build, explore caves, and fend off monsters. Players like: Creative Worldbuilding · Relaxing Pixel Style · Crafting System ·
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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!

Gatekeeper: Eclipse - Players say: A rogue-lite shooter prologue where you defend gates from machine hordes and pursue a stolen cosmic heart. Players like: Nerve-Racking Tension · Gate Defense ·
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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!

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE - Players say: As a volunteer sent to a Japanese island facility, explore shifting corridors, scavenge gear, solve puzzles, and fight creatures. Players like: Industrial Horror Atmosphere · Randomized Replayable Runs · Tense Exploration ·
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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.

SCP: Labrat - Players say: After a containment breach traps you in an underground SCP facility, explore, evade anomalies, manage items, and search for an escape. Players like: VR Immersion and Fear · Co-op With Friends · SCP Atmosphere ·
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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.

Bounty game - Players say: Compete against up to 49 players in a last-player-standing contest of randomly selected challenges and rival-fighting gear. Players like: ·
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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!!

STALZONE - Players say: Explore a faction-divided Chernobyl Zone, fight mutants and rival players, and extract loot while building lasting gear. Players like: Distinctive MMO Shooter · Zone Atmosphere · Early Story Quests ·
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STALZONE is the PvPvE extraction shooter where you don't have to start over — and the only one with persistent world worth belonging to. You are invited to explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone twisted by anomalies and divided between rival factions whose territories shape the danger around you

Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission - Players say: After landing on Nova, Emilia gathers resources, builds and automates a base with helper bots, and explores connected islands. Players like: Relaxed, Simple Play · Building and Logistics · Technology Exploration ·
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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!

Oxygen: First Breath - Players say: Build around the Oxygen Center, manage workers and supplies, and protect a settlement from deadly weather and toxic cracks. Players like: Distinct Oxygen Premise · Tense Survival Management · Atmospheric Setting ·
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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!

SCP: Containment Breach Remastered - Players say: As Class-D D-9341, navigate a breached SCP facility, evade escaped anomalies, manage your blinking, and find a way out. Players like: SCP Horror Atmosphere · Added SCP Content · Steam Achievements ·
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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.

Impact Point - Players say: In a retro-styled top-down arena, 2–4 players scavenge weapons and fight without respawns to be the last survivor. Players like: Fun With Friends · Quick Arena Matches · Retro Pixel Style ·
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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.

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Jul 20, 2022
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Fray Fight - Players say: Choose a hero, survive timed monster waves, and use collected gold to build item synergies on the road to Valhalla. Players like: Monster Horde Action · Build Experimentation · Free to Play ·
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Battle the evil hordes on your way to Valhalla. Annihilate thousands of monsters with overpowered attacks and upgrades.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt - Players say: In Prague, a vampire battle royale pits rival predators against one another as they loot, feed for power, and fight across rooftops. Players like: Rooftop Movement · Vampire Abilities · Prague Atmosphere ·
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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!

The Genesis Project - Players say: Enter a Homestuck-inspired Sburb session, build and alchemize gear, then explore planets and battle through dungeons solo or co-op. Players like: Homestuck Recreation · Co-op Chaos · Character Customization ·
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The Genesis Project is an attempt to replicate Sburb from the popular webcomic Homestuck, made by Andrew Hussie.