The Best Survival Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 5

Update : Crashlands 2 added at rank #2.
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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.

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

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Remnants (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Remnants is an open world survival game that challenges you to face different obstacles while building your strategies and skills to survive. There are various modes to choose from, and the gameplay is immersive with crafting, vehicle construction, dynamic base building, and weather changes. With constant content updates and an active developer who addresses issues, it's an experience you wouldn't want to miss.


What we like:
  • Active developer that listens to feedback
  • Customizable game settings
  • Extensive building system
  • Plenty of loot
  • Great potential and constant content updates
What could be improved:
  • Steep learning curve: combat & navigation can be difficult
  • Early game can be challenging
  • Some bugs and UI issues

  • mmo
  • survival
  • multiplayer
  • gore
  • crafting
  • rpg
  • violent
  • action
  • sandbox
  • adventure
  • tps
  • robots
  • base-building
  • head-to-head

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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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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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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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Hobo: Tough Life (2017)

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Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.


  • survival
  • base-building
  • cooperative
  • conversation
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • heist
  • sandbox
  • socio-economy
  • fiction
  • story
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • realistic
  • atmospheric

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Survive on Raft (2022)

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Survive on Raft is a survival sandbox simulator on the raft which throw you into an epic adventure in the middle of the ocean!

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • farming
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • inventory
  • resource-management
  • management
  • sandbox
  • building
  • underwater
  • character
  • pvp
  • multiplayer

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ARIDA: Backland's Awakening (2019)

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ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.


  • historical
  • crafting
  • collectathon
  • survival
  • emotional
  • nature
  • family-friendly
  • short
  • cartoony
  • linear
  • stylized
  • inventory
  • adventure
  • third-person
  • 3d

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Landnama (2023)

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Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.


  • colony
  • rogue-like
  • hex
  • vikings
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • grid
  • build-em-up
  • economy
  • management
  • resource-management
  • historical
  • building

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The Coma 2B: Catacomb (2024)

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The Coma 2B: Catacomb is a Korean survival horror adventure. It is the back story to the previous game, The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters, and a story bridge for the full series. You return as Youngho, the hero from The Coma 1, as you once again venture forth into the terrifying mirror dimension…


  • mystery
  • survival-horror
  • lovecraftian
  • horror
  • lore
  • survival
  • dark
  • exploration
  • hand-drawn
  • psychological
  • visual-novel
  • violent
  • adventure
  • dungeon
  • anime

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