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Don't Starve
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A harsh wilderness survival game blending science and magic, with crafting, sanity management, and permadeath—playable in short brutal bursts or long-term survival grinds.

THE DEVIL HAUNTS ME
A short pixel-art survival-adventure in a spooky forest, where exploration and scavenging are driven by permadeath and an eerie, lonely atmosphere.
2019-01-06
- Adventure
- Horror

Survival

Bird view / Isometric

Indie

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Wrongworld

A quirky single-player survival adventure on a surreal low-poly planet, with permadeath options and a lengthy, well-received journey home.

2018-05-11

Action
Adventure
Indie
Simulator

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Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

A hand-drawn story-rich roguelite about repairing spaceships in a surreal garage, offering deep but punishing manual-based gameplay that reviewers spent around 10-14 hours with.

2024-12-05

Science fiction
Puzzle
Indie
Simulator

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Atrio: The Dark Wild

A dark sci-fi survival-automation game about keeping an android alive by automating and assimilating creatures into production lines; reviewers describe a tense, power-critical loop with median playtime around 13 hours.

2023-01-10

Adventure
Horror
Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Open world
Sandbox

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Card Survival: Tropical Island

A single-player card-based desert-island survival sim where combining cards to explore and craft is a punishing but rewarding knowledge game.

2022-09-16

Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper

A top-down survival sandbox action-RPG mixing exploration, crafting, and resource management, with co-op and a grindy pace that reviewers medianed around 12 hours.

2021-05-27

Action
Adventure
Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world
Sandbox

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ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL

A single-player top-down survival adventure in a frozen land, with crafting, resource-gathering, and a story of memory and redemption praised for satisfying, progressive gameplay.

2025-12-05

Adventure
Indie

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Darkwood

A tense single-player survival-horror game with a day-night cycle — scavenge by day, defend your hideout at night — set in a story-rich, atmospheric free-roam world.

2017-08-17

Action
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Wizard with a Gun

An online sandbox survival game in a magical wilderness where you craft, customize your wizard, and fight with guns and spells in co-op, with a moderate-length loop.

2023-10-17

Shooter
Action
Adventure
Survival
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Sandbox

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Sons Of The Forest

A long, open-world survival horror game where you craft, build, and fight smart cannibal enemies on a remote island, alone or in co-op.

2024-02-22

Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Simulator

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Rain World

A punishing 2D survival-platformer in a dark post-apocalyptic ecosystem, where you play a nomadic slugcat hunting with spears and surviving an indifferent, procedurally generated world.

2017-03-28

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Side view
Open world
Mystery

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I Hate This Place

An isometric survival horror that blends scavenging, crafting, and sound-based stealth under a comic-book '80s horror aesthetic, with a slow start that gives way to a steady rhythm.

2026-01-29

Shooter
Action
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Bird view / Isometric
Indie