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A raft journey down a procedurally generated river through a flooded, abandoned America, where you scavenge, craft and avoid predators. The survival struggle is backed by a moody folk soundtrack and a bold illustrated look.
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A lonely, unforgiving survival experience in the frozen Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic disaster, where cold, hunger and wolves are your real enemies. Its painterly visuals and quiet atmosphere turn every trek into a tense, often melancholic journey.
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A single-player survival roguelike where you push through a freshly generated wilderness each run, managing weather, cold and terrain. Every journey becomes its own emergent story.
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You fix up a battered RV and roam a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic world, scavenging resources and upgrading your vehicle. Each trip plays out differently, and the goal is to survive as long as you can.
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A survival climbing game where you can scale any rock face of Mount Kami, placing each limb yourself and carefully rationing pitons, food and stamina along your chosen route. From The Game Bakers, it pairs a striking art style with a personal story about ambition and sacrifice.
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An atmospheric survival roguelike in which a tiny wanderer descends into procedurally generated caverns full of hunger, cold, traps and creatures. Death is harsh and punishing, and the mood is lonely and dark.
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A merciless survival game with a gothic, Tim Burton-esque hand-drawn style, where you scavenge, craft and fend off hunger, insanity and monsters in a procedurally generated wilderness. Death is permanent, but every run teaches you something new.
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82 % 19.99 €
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As a shipwrecked adventurer you sail between stylized islands, gather resources, craft and upgrade your boat, and survive. It blends calm exploration with survival pressure and optional permadeath-style challenge.
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Darkwood is a bleak top-down survival horror where you scavenge a eerie, partly randomized forest by day and barricade your hideout against horrors by night. Its surreal atmosphere and deliberately cryptic story create constant dread.
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Permafrost is an open-world survival RPG set in a never-ending winter, built around hunting, gathering, building and crafting. You must endure a harsh world and decide whether to ally with other survivors or dominate them. Little information is available on the game, so this rating is cautious.
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An atmospheric fishing adventure where you haul catches and upgrade your trawler by day while Lovecraftian dread creeps in with the night fog. Inventory-packing puzzles and eerie island stories give it a unique hook.
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