The Best Survival Games for Playstation 4 - Page 5

Update : Core Keeper added at rank #8.
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ARK: Survival Evolved (2017)

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ARK: Survival Evolved is an action-adventure game that throws you into a mysterious world filled with dinosaurs, where you must learn to survive and craft your own weapons, clothing, and tools in order to thrive. You must explore the land, build bases and enlist the help of creatures in order to defend against predators. With beautiful water animations, lush forests and varied creatures ARK will keep you engaged and entertained for hours.


What we like:
  • Varied creatures to explore & tame
  • Combat is incredibly satisfying
  • Crafted weapons can be used to threaten or destroy enemies
  • Trading items with other players
  • Stunning visuals & water animations
What could be improved:
  • Awful character customisation
  • Long taming process can test patience

  • survival
  • dinosaurs
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • -protect
  • subdue-

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We Happy Few (2018)

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From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.


  • survival
  • stealth
  • dystopian
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • narrative
  • alternate
  • story
  • combat

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Generation ZeroA (2019)

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Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.


  • robots
  • open-world
  • shooter
  • cooperative
  • first-person
  • survival
  • inventory
  • fps
  • 1980s
  • stealth
  • military
  • combat

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Subterrain (2016)

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Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?


  • survival
  • survival-horror
  • crafting
  • top-down
  • zombies
  • sci-fi
  • horror

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Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness (2022)

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Experience the awesome power of the Curse of the Abyss, as well as the astonishing, legendary entities known as primeval creatures. Prepare to glimpse the world of Riko and her friends.


  • anime
  • survival
  • crafting
  • rpg
  • 3d
  • dungeon-crawler
  • exploration
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • dark
  • fight
  • combat
  • dungeon

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WW2: Bunker Simulator (2021)

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During WWII you are an American soldier who captured the german bunker in Normandy. You must defend it at all costs and survive this World War II. Complete missions, cook & shoot, search the bodies for medicines, ammo, and food to survive. WW2: Bunker Simulator is a mix of fps and simulator.


  • world-war-2
  • wargame
  • resource-management
  • first-person
  • crafting
  • survival
  • shooter
  • historical
  • military
  • management
  • fps
  • 3d
  • war
  • realistic
  • simulation

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Breathedge (2018)

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Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • space
  • open-world
  • base-building

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PixARK (2018)

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In addition, the player must ensure their survival by mining resources, making objects, building structures and defending himself against enemy animals and other players. The world has several areas such as jungle, desert and caves and is generated procedurally, so it is not prefabricated. Likewise, the quest system is procedural and always creates new challenges.


  • dinosaurs
  • survival
  • multiplayer
  • mmo
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • adventure
  • voxel
  • building
  • endless

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The Wild Eight (2018)

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The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.


  • crafting
  • survival
  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • open-world
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • story
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • supernatural
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • colourful
  • 2d

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They Are Billions (2019)

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They Are Billions is an addictive RTS game that puts you in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. You'll need to fortify your colony, fend off hordes of infected, and uncover the cause of the pandemic. With engaging gameplay modes and gorgeous 4K graphics, this game will keep you hooked for over 60 hours of playtime. Plus, you can pause the action to plan your attacks strategically and train mercenaries to defend your settlement. Just be prepared to face up to 20,000 zombies at once!


What we like:
  • Balanced gameplay mechanics that keep the tension high
  • Steampunk aesthetics executed beautifully
  • Rich research tree and game mode variety to explore
  • Easy to run on slower computers
  • Realistic threat from never-ending zombie hordes
What could be improved:
  • No in-game save points available during missions
  • Forced losing scenarios in some levels
  • Difficulty based on 'gotcha' mechanics that can be frustrating

  • zombies
  • survival
  • steampunk
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • pause
  • wave

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