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A survival exploration game where you navigate through a puzzly hand-crafted dungeon, with metroidvania and crafting elements. Unravel the enigmas of the dungeon’s depths solo or online co-op multiplayer.
Shared features: Metroidvania, Survival horror, Survival
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Shared features: Survival horror, Survival, Horror
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Shared features: Survival, Crafting
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Shared features: Survival, Crafting
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Shared features: Survival horror, Survival, Horror
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Shared features: Survival, Crafting
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Shared features: Survival, Crafting
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
Shared features: Metroidvania, Survival horror, Platformer
A metroidvania full of bald guys? Reach the top of the tower with pixel-perfect jumps, collecting weapons that let you unlock the map. Be careful! every mistake can send you, literally, back to the beginning. Only then will you be able to take revenge on the one who mocked you and your alopecia...
Shared features: Metroidvania, Survival horror, Platformer
Hypnostasis is a retro survival horror FPS rooted in Jungian psychology. Explore a semi-open nightmare, manage your sanity and scarce resources, and master Goldsrc-style movement to survive. Uncover buried memories across multiple endings — face your shadow, or lose yourself to it.
Shared features: Survival horror, Survival, Horror
Permafrost is a story-driven survival sandbox set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. Discover a vast lore-rich open world, alone or in co-op with up to 4 players. Explore, scavenge, craft, and build a network of shelters to outlast the cold.
Shared features: Survival, Crafting
Terrible Lizards is a horror parkour game set against the backdrop of an old Route 66 attraction… with something dark and sinister lurking below. To escape, you’ll need to move fast, navigate challenging terrain, and uncover what Dalton’s Dinos is really hiding. You’d better start running.
Shared features: Survival horror, Platformer, Survival
Hunt for monsters through creepy dungeons on your own or with a squad of up to four in this sci-fi horror-based shooter! Navigate treacherous traps and escape the planet once the job is done. Purchase various kinds of equipment to make sure you and your squad are ready! The Main HQ will be watching.
Shared features: Survival horror, Platformer, Survival
Endure... Evolve... or die. Embrace the unknown and traverse a vast alien world riddled with bizarre creatures, deadly hazards, and grim mysteries. Seek redemption, and confront the terrifying sin buried in the depths of the forgotten planet Protea VI.
Shared features: Metroidvania, Platformer, Horror
Maintain reality or watch it collapse. Backrooms: Betrayal is a co-op liminal horror game where the environment is the antagonist. Stabilize shifting sectors against a tide of entropy, but watch your team. Every failure has an explanation, but not every explanation is innocent.
Shared features: Survival horror, Platformer, Survival
OctoDock is a lovely laid-back 2D idle simulation management game🐚. Listen to the soothing crashing sounds of ocean waves🌊 as story-rich fishing boats drift gently into the harbor with sea breeze, and sailors wander ashore in groups.
Shared features: Platformer, Crafting
🌾 Build your farm, automate production, hire workers and turn crops and animals into profit. Complete contracts, unlock upgrades and master a dynamic market as you grow your small farm into a million-dollar agricultural empire!
Shared features: Platformer, Crafting
Naughty Nurse is a survival horror game. Medical bills are coming due, and the cost of healthcare has risen. Run through several haunted locations to collect the bills, but be careful. A murderous nurse will try to stop you from escaping, giving you a wide variety of effects.
Shared features: Survival horror, Platformer, Survival
A first-person survival horror game on an island overrun by the infected. Guided by two voices on a crackling radio, mark four infested zones with your flare gun and call in the airstrike. Scavenge, craft, build a shelter and survive the night. Every shot draws attention.
Shared features: Survival horror, Survival, Horror
Build and create automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 3D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally escape from creatures who don't really like you.
Shared features: Survival, Crafting
Forget the stress of survival. In this cozy open-world sim, you don't fight nature, you join it. Build your dream cabin piece by piece, cook complex meals with crops you watered yourself, and fill your photo album with rare wildlife. A serene experience where the only enemy is inefficiency.
Shared features: Survival, Crafting
Walkers is an open-world zombie survival game with advanced base building and NPC systems. Scavenge, craft, and loot across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Recruit survivors from the streets, assign them as workers, guards, or companions.
Shared features: Survival, Crafting
Good Heavens! is an open-world crafting and building RPG for solo and online co-op up to 8 players. Explore mysterious biomes, build your base, master six distinct tech trees, rebuild fallen cities, and help a clumsy God restore his world on the brink of collapse.
Shared features: Survival, Crafting
1–4 player sci-fi ghost-hunting horror extraction sim with proximity voice chat. Travel across time to extract resources, identify and capture hostile entities as fuel for a supposed future utopia. Speak to entities using your voice, upgrade your prison, craft tools, and meet a rising daily quota.
Shared features: Horror, Crafting
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