Survival games revolve around staying alive while gathering resources, crafting equipment, building shelter, or responding to environmental and player-driven threats. Persistent servers may continue changing while a player is offline, but the exact rules vary by title.
Use each game page to check whether survival is cooperative, competitive, session-based, or tied to a long-running shared world. Platform support and monetization can be just as important as the crafting loop when choosing where to invest time.
This is an exact genre category rather than a broad keyword search, so only games carrying the Survival tag in the database appear here.
Oxide: Survival Island
Hyperhug · 2025
Oxide: Survival Island is a free mobile multiplayer survival game by Hyperhug. Gather, craft, build, and raid on persistent shared servers on Android and iOS.
PUBG Mobile
Krafton · 2018
A free iOS and Android battle royale co-developed by LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS and KRAFTON. Version 4.5 combines up-to-100-player Classic matches with ranked play and rotating collaboration modes.
Ark: Survival Evolved
Studio Wildcard · 2017
The original dinosaur survival sandbox remains playable in single-player and on unofficial servers, though its official server network closed in September 2023.
Myth of Empires
Angela Game · 2024
Myth of Empires is a buy-to-play PC war sandbox where players survive, build fortresses, recruit armies, and contest PvE or PvP territory.
Dead Frontier
Creaky Corpse Ltd · 2008
Dead Frontier is a free survival horror MMORPG set in zombie-infested Fairview, where players scavenge supplies, develop weapon skills, trade through outposts, fight infected, and enter optional PvP using the Windows standalone client.
Dead Frontier 2
Creaky Corpse · 2019
Dead Frontier 2 is a free third-person survival horror MMO built around tense scavenging, character builds, player trading, online co-op, and optional PvP.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Jagex · 2026
A co-operative survival action RPG set on Gielinor's Ashenfall. Version 1.0 launched September 15, 2026 across PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 with cross-play.