The Best Survival Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 4

Update : The Coma 2B: Catacomb added at rank #47.
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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.

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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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Takoyaki Party Survival (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

You should consume a good balance of protein, carbohydrates, and fats to survive. The nutritional balance changes depending on the ingredients you put in your takoyaki. If you are overloaded with calories, you will be too full to eat, so please consume calories by squatting.

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  • collectathon
  • cooking
  • time-management
  • tabletop
  • survival
  • board-game
  • management
  • modern
  • physics
  • 3d
  • resource-management

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Miniland Adventure (2024)

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The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!


  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • pixel
  • building
  • farming
  • underground
  • collectathon
  • god-game
  • resource-management
  • inventory
  • relaxing
  • 2d

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Scrapnaut (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

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  • survival
  • cooperative
  • crafting
  • building
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • top-down
  • exploration
  • online
  • post-apocalyptic
  • steampunk
  • farming
  • multiplayer
  • robots

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Dead In Vinland (2018)

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DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

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  • survival
  • turn-based
  • resource-management
  • rpg
  • combat
  • management
  • crafting

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

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows

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.

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  • 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.

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

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PixARK (2018)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

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.

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

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Residual (2021)

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In a forgotten galaxy full of strange planets, you crash-land on one with the ancient mystery. Craft tools and mining devices. Hostile biological life, and more stand between the voyager and survival. You’ll have your snarky and occasionally helpful Personal Disaster Bot with you the entire way.

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • platform
  • non-violent
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • environment
  • open-world

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