
The survival genre has been growing at an incredible rate lately, thanks to games like Minecraft, Fallout, DayZ and State of Decay, the genre is thriving. Below is a list of what we think are the 10 greatest survival games.

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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I guess it doesn't really count but I thought Farcry 2 and 3 deserve spots on the list. You had to deal with malaria in no. 2 and animals and random patrols of pirates in no. 3. Not to mention you could hunt, take out hits and harvest plants and such for survival perks.
I don't feel Alan Wake would benefit from being an open world game.
It's a story driven game, it was interesting and if it was open world, then you would be going off doing side quests and forgetting the story. Collecting manuscripts was pretty cool and being able to read the story.
DayZ is a great survival game. But where's ZombiU, it's pretty good, especially with that perma-death thing where you have to re-kill yourself.
Otherwise this is a pretty solid list.
This list is missing Stalker.
Why no The Last of Us?