Although ARK: Survival Evolved is one of the best games released in recent years’ survival genre. Like others, you may have grown tired of its crazy sci-fi world filled with dinosaurs and looked around for other games. Survival games that are similar but offer just a hint of something different. Here is a list of games for those of us who love the challenge of having to survive.
#1. Rust
If you’re a fan of Conan exiles, this game is potentially more brutal, the only difference being it sets in a more modern era. Roster set in a highly-populated map where your character starts naked and afraid. Despite this, if you play in the more popular multiplayer mode, you’ll quickly run into others.
The more primordial aspect of the survival zone for the fore. You can either decide to scrape fine, survive at the bottom of the food chain, or take a risk through awards, which significantly boost your probability of survival as long as you can find a gun. You have to get your hands on ammunition to survive in the world of melee weapons.
#2. Dayz
No list of survival games would be complete without a mention of days. Ever since it was first introduced off the back of ARMA 2, it’s been massively popular in the gaming community. It’s the original of the species for the zombie apocalypse survival game.
The zombies are the least of your worries with surviving. It’s the players you encounter that you need to be wary of. It doesn’t take too long to work out why this game was so popular you can choose to communicate on so many levels by using sign language, punching someone in the face, or just finding full of lead, whichever suits your style.
#3. The Long Dark
Set in a bleak snow blanket wilderness that is nothing short of uncompromising, this harsh survival game works in an episodic story mode. Playing the survival mode version of the game will offer you an eye-opening test of your metal.
Just looking after your basic human needs will be your primary concern, but the game will offer some twists in the tail as you work your way through it.
#4. Subnautica
If you’ve grown not tired of trying to survive on dry land, why not try an underwater survival game, and that’s pretty much what Subnautica offers?
You start your journey deep in an underwater world where you have to survive and explore. Most games avoid deep sea, as their main game playing experience will have to say that this is the biggest draw of Subnautica.
The crafting and building side of this game are pretty unique as everything has to be tailored to allow you to survive underwater. From an expiration point of view, the designers haven’t held back for offering undersea eye candy as you try to discover the resources you need to survive.
#5. Life Is Feudal: Your Own
That I’m a big fan of this game is probably down to my Degree in Medieval History. Anyone who’s ever wanted to know what it’s like to survive in a feudal world as a lowly peasant should check this game out.
There are so many other games where you start as a Knight potassium going to become tired. Now you have to survive full of dangers learning how to pick up any items or news you can while avoiding the overly cruel feudal laws and rules.
If you’re happy to remain a peasant, your farm is always there, and you can continue to reap the rewards of it, but others are just going to come in and take your crops and everything else you worked hard for.
#6. Osiris: New Dawn
Set in the world of 2078 on a strange alien planet, your property is an opportunity to survive and explore a solar system that’s full of the dangers associated with space travel.
Featuring space combat exploration base building and many other space vessels, this game has one of the most amazing graphics engines you’ll ever encounter.
#7 Scum
Not similar to subsistence, you could never describe this as a pleasant game. It’s a skill to a realistic survival game if you’re going to get it.
By this, you need to take care of every aspect of your character’s health and well-being, including tackling disease, bodily functions, exercise, and nutrition, including minerals, vitamins, sodium, sugar, fat, and protein.
This is never easy; even in real life, it’s not something that most people do. Trust me; I’m not trying to put you off pay this game because it’s crazy realistic, and you add in some zombies while animals and other hazards make it well worth the look.
#8. Monster Hunter: World
Why not a pure survival game? Fans of ARK will like the fact that they can take over Hunter’s role and work their way through a breathing world full of predators to slay and hunt.
This version of Monster Hunter features many original game favorites, including Rathalos, but it also has some added extras. I particularly like the Great Jagras, who has a penchant for swallowing his prey whole.
#9. Raft
Another survival game that’s escaping from what’s could become a little tired and slightly over-saturated dried and tested method of designing these games.
Set another maritime location, but this time you’re on the surface of the ocean rather than underneath it. This game will offer you a level of fulfillment and excitement to match any other on the list.
As you try to escape great white sharks on your journey, the task you with constantly improving the flimsy vessel you’re floating on. Scavenging whatever you can find beneath the surface of the ocean to survive.
#10. The Forest
If you’re looking for a survival game with a horror twist, the forest without you to take the role of a father who needs to protect both him and his son from the hazards of a remote island that they crashed on.
Your son will quickly go missing as you realize that a tribe of cannibals populates the island. Being the perfect father, you must search his heart cold wilderness to find your son and boost your survival chances.
This game can cut a little close to the bone, but it is a worthy addition.
#11. Astroneer
This game has received nothing but rave reviews since its release, and this is a major part of the passion his developers have given it.
This is a twist on the survival game genre, making it a more positive and fun experience than most of the list’s games. While exploring the survival game world, you will encounter a truly unique video game designed to match the crafting and survival sphere’s purest.
#12. Green Hell
Green hill takes crafting and survival to a new level. Focusing heavily on the psychological impact of being forced to fight for survival while marooned in the Amazon rainforest, this takes a unique twist on the genre.
Well, dealing with wild animals and tribes of hostile natives with a couple of other horrors thrown in this game is worthy of his place on the list.
#13. 7 Days To Die
Yet another crafting survival post-apocalyptic game that tops the list? Thankfully, this is not the case when looking 7 days to die. At first glance, it seems like a classical zombie survival game.
However, when mixed with some great multiplayer options, the zombie AI provides you with a game that’s full of addictive survival genre gameplay.
#14. Savage Lands
Reading reviews of this game, I almost didn’t know what to expect as people seem to have a love-hate relationship with it.
But that savage land on first viewing has some impressive visuals its creatures can terrify and are worth the cost of the game alone. This classic Terror survival game is well worth a look.
#15. Mages of Mystralia
This one is a little out of the left-field, differing from everything else on the list. Why not a pure survival game on the surface, you have to work with Zia as she is learning to control her magic and train to survive in a world where magic gets you exiled.
As she travels through different lands, she uncovers new magical abilities, meets exiled Mages, and learns to harness her powers in ways she couldn’t before. While not a survival game on the surface, Zia needs to master her magic to survive.
#16. Rising World
This randomly generated open world sandbox game has fully destructible environments. You start with a basic set of tools I didn’t order to survive in this harsh wilderness; you’re going to have to collect resources quickly.
You can either create a gigantic castle, the world’s biggest city, or let your imagination run wild. If letting you create a juices flow, it’s just too much you can connect with your friends and ask them for help.
#17. Primal Carnage
This one is for fans of ARK and the Jurassic Park series. Stuck on a remote island where the scientists are trying to revive the dinosaurs, and surprise, everything goes to hell.
Thankfully, this time they’ve skipped boring plot-heavy storylines and just relied on multiple multiplayer battles between the resurrected dinosaurs and their human prey.
Playing the game, you can take part in three different modes. Most people will choose a human team member, and you can either be a Trapper, a scientist, or a commando.
#18. Conan Exiles
In this sandbox game, this game’s premise is simple: crush your enemies to survive. Conan Exiles is one of the most graphic and hardcore survival games on the market.
But it’s just true to the survival game mode, allowing you to explore farm furniture, construct armor weapons and build base buildings. What sets corner next as a park from the back is your ability to perform sacrifices, which will allow you to summon a god and use their powers to wreak havoc upon others.
#19. Days Gone
What else can only you feel that this game is going to become increasingly pumping you in the next few years? It’s set in a post-pandemic world.
What do you say I bounty hunter or drifter was driving out a broken road, you’re going to have to find a reason to survive.
Featuring hope, love, regret, brotherhood, friendship, madness, loss, and its core desperation days gone is its true survival game as it focuses on what makes us human.
#20 Subsistence
If you’re looking for the survival game and the truest nature of the genre, this is the most unforgiving and challenging game on the list.
Paint with high-quality animal AI, this game focused on the power of nature and wildlife. In this world, you will not survive without tools.
If you’re expecting a game that’ll offer you a chance to stroll through some stunning scenery casually, subsistence is not for you believe now or forever I have the bitter taste of defeat in your mouth.
#21. Orion: Prelude
If you’re looking for the game that may have inspired the arc, it could have been Orion’s prelude. One original species went to dinosaur crafting survival games that offer many survival elements mixed in with lots of dinosaurs.
It’s the foundation of what we built, and you can buy it for as little as a dollar on Steam. But my advice is to upgrade to the ultimate edition. It’ll be the best $11 you’ve ever spent.
