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2013PCSteam Deck playable89 % positive−40 % 4.99 € 2.99 €

You build your own convict and try to survive a sprawling prison with twelve areas full of interactive props. You must balance mental health against physical survival while wardens enforce dozens of laws, both inside the walls and in the civilian world outside.

  • Resources and survival
  • Dense, handcrafted world
  • Deep systems to master
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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Green Hell

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2019USK 18PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified84 % positive20.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Hard Time: scarce resources and survival, a dark atmosphere as well as a realistic look.

A punishing jungle survival sim set in the Amazon that tracks nutrition, infections, parasites and wounds alongside your character's fraying sanity. A dark story campaign and a co-op mode round it out.

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Dense, handcrafted world

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Dense, handcrafted world

An enormously deep open-source survival roguelike in a post-apocalyptic New England where you juggle hunger, illness and zombies, build vehicles and shelters, and carve out your own goals with no fixed objective.

This War of Mine

Dark, serious atmosphere

Instead of soldiers, you guide a group of civilians through a besieged city, maintaining your shelter by day and scavenging dangerous ruins by night. Harsh moral dilemmas between survival and humanity make it a haunting, unforgettable experience.

Project Zomboid

Dense, handcrafted world

An unforgiving zombie survival sandbox where you loot, build, craft and train skills until your inevitable death. Its deep simulation and highly customisable rules turn every run into a personal survival story, solo or with friends.

UnReal World

Dark, serious atmosphere

An extremely detailed roguelike survival simulator set in Iron Age Finland, where you freely live as a hunter, fisherman, trader or hermit. Realism and immersion come before comfort, and the learning curve is steep.

Banished

Realistic visuals

A calm yet unforgiving city builder where you guide a band of exiles through harsh winters. You have to balance food, firewood and population growth carefully, or the whole settlement collapses.

My Summer Car

Challenging difficulty

You assemble a car and its engine from hundreds of loose parts in rural 1990s Finland while juggling bills, hunger and daily life. Brutally detailed, frustrating and often darkly funny.

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