BEST SURVIVAL BUILDING GAMES

BEST SURVIVAL BUILDING GAMES

It’s been over ten years since Minecraft got us hooked on surviving its deadly nights and sinister, snickering foes, and during that time there’s been wave upon wave of great new survival games to scratch our deepest masochistic itches. Attempting to tackle them all at once, however, would probably lead to an early grave, so we’ve put together this list of the very best survival games you can play on PC to help satisfy those cravings. Whether you love punching trees, surviving against the elements or simply stuffing your belly with as much grub as you can manage, there’s a survival game with your name on it.

In creating this list, we’ve kept our definition of ‘survival’ fairly broad. After all, the genre has crept into several other types of games over the years, from RPGs and management games to horror and cosmic sandboxes, so you’ll find plenty of hybrids in this list alongside the pure survival classics. That said, in keeping with the spirit of survival games, we’ve also focused on games that we’d recommend you play today as opposed to doggedly sticking with some of the genre’s founding fathers. Survival of the fittest and all that, right?

Best survival games

There are loads of brilliant survival games to be found on PC, but we’ve selected 20 of the best below. Don’t see your favourite game on the list? Tell us about it in the comments below, and maybe you’ll convince others – and us – to give it a go. Alternatively, if you’re looking for a completely different kind of game, then check out our list of the best PC games to play right now.