Best games
Best survival games
The 193 best survival games, ranked from 21,232 critic and player ratings.
How this ranking is built
- Games are ranked on the aggregated critic score out of 100 imported from IGDB and Metacritic, never on Tier's own grades.
- A game only enters the ranking with at least 80 external ratings, so a single enthusiastic review never outranks a proven classic.
- Each game is ranked in one genre only, the one that defines it best, so the same title never tops two different genre charts.
- Community grades from F to S are shown next to every game, and only stated as a fact above 5 Tier ratings.
- Release window covered: 1970 to 2026.
- 50 games are listed on this page, carrying 21,232 ratings between them.
- Rankings are recomputed hourly; this one was last rebuilt on 7 September 2026.
Ranking, page 3
101
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time
80
/100
102
Delta Force
80
/100
103
Resident Evil: Revelations
80
/100
104
Metro: Last Light
80
/100
105
Tom Clancy's The Division
80
/100
106
Metro 2033
79
/100
107
Northgard
79
/100
108
Fractured Space
79
/100
109
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
79
/100
110
Don't Starve
79
/100
111
Resident Evil 5
78
/100
112
Prototype
78
/100
113
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
78
/100
114
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
78
/100
115
Green Hell
78
/100
116
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
78
/100
117
Badland
78
/100
118
Deliver Us the Moon
78
/100
119
Little Nightmares
78
/100
120
The Last of Us Part I
77
/100
121
Dead Space 3
77
/100
122
Alien Swarm
77
/100
123
The Void
77
/100
124
Dying Light 2: Stay Human
77
/100
125
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
76
/100
126
Outlast 2
76
/100
127
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
76
/100
128
The Ship: Murder Party
76
/100
129
Prey
76
/100
130
The Evil Within
75
/100
131
Manhunt
75
/100
132
Spellbreak
75
/100
133
Distrust
75
/100
134
Kingdom: New Lands
75
/100
135
Days Gone
75
/100
136
Dead Island 2
74
/100
137
A
Dying Light
74
/100
138
Dead Island
74
/100
139
S
Far Cry Primal
74
/100
140
They Are Billions
74
/100
141
Tokyo Jungle
74
/100
142
Penumbra: Overture
74
/100
143
No Man's Sky
74
/100
144
Condemned: Criminal Origins
74
/100
145
Brotato
74
/100
146
Call of Duty: Ghosts
74
/100
147
Surviving Mars
74
/100
148
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
73
/100
149
Turmoil
73
/100
150
R.E.P.O.
73
/100
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time
80
/100
102
Delta Force
80
/100
103
Resident Evil: Revelations
80
/100
104
Metro: Last Light
80
/100
105
Tom Clancy's The Division
80
/100
106
Metro 2033
79
/100
107
Northgard
79
/100
108
Fractured Space
79
/100
109
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
79
/100
110
Don't Starve
79
/100
111
Resident Evil 5
78
/100
112
Prototype
78
/100
113
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
78
/100
114
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
78
/100
115
Green Hell
78
/100
116
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
78
/100
117
Badland
78
/100
118
Deliver Us the Moon
78
/100
119
Little Nightmares
78
/100
120
The Last of Us Part I
77
/100
121
Dead Space 3
77
/100
122
Alien Swarm
77
/100
123
The Void
77
/100
124
Dying Light 2: Stay Human
77
/100
125
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
76
/100
126
Outlast 2
76
/100
127
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
76
/100
128
The Ship: Murder Party
76
/100
129
Prey
76
/100
130
The Evil Within
75
/100
131
Manhunt
75
/100
132
Spellbreak
75
/100
133
Distrust
75
/100
134
Kingdom: New Lands
75
/100
135
Days Gone
75
/100
136
Dead Island 2
74
/100
137
A
Dying Light
74
/100
138
Dead Island
74
/100
139
S
Far Cry Primal
74
/100
140
They Are Billions
74
/100
141
Tokyo Jungle
74
/100
142
Penumbra: Overture
74
/100
143
No Man's Sky
74
/100
144
Condemned: Criminal Origins
74
/100
145
Brotato
74
/100
146
Call of Duty: Ghosts
74
/100
147
Surviving Mars
74
/100
148
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
73
/100
149
Turmoil
73
/100
150
R.E.P.O.
73
/100