Games: Survival

Survival games test the primal instinct: gather food, build shelter, watch the temperature and don't let the local zombies/dinosaurs/cannibals ruin your evening. The selection includes hardcore projects where death wipes hours of progress, calm survivor games with crafting and fishing, and networked sandboxes where the main danger is the neighboring player. Check the crafting and base-building notes in descriptions if you like settling in for the long haul. Year and size filters are on the right; fellow survivors' reviews are on the game pages.