Hello Everyone!

I am attempting to finish as many Hardcore Survival Games as I can in one year. I am looking for Survival games that fit the following:

• Must have some type of story or goal, to mark as a completed game
• Has to be foremost a survival game (Survival mechanics are good but Skyrim and Read Dead are not what I’d consider survival)
• If possible, different difficulty modes

I have barely played any survival games, so most of them will be new to me. You don’t have your just suggest common ones either, as I’m excited to try all different kinds!

I have finished Subnautica Hardcore, Below Zero Hardcore, and am currently playing The Forest on Hardcore Survival for my first time! I have Icarus, Valheim, and The Long Dark on my list of upcoming games after Sons of the Forest. I also just added Grounded today to the list.

I really appreciate it, as looking online, I got a few survival games but mainly a list of games with survival mechanics.

Thank you and well wishes!

Can’t remember if it was mobile or pc (probably mobile) It’s a wave based survival games where you control a Viking warrior squad and each fight and wave gives you new equipment or warriors. I remember that you can pick up several different weapons and had to give warriors bandages frequently

First - I have never hosted a private server before so I have no idea how to do that. Willing to purchase dedicated server for small group of friends / possibly have a decent amount of 20 people total with probably 5-6 at once at most.

Ideally I would LOVE for the ability to make a PVP time window per day where you can raid / pvp.

Some games I am looking at

Rust - Strong PVP but lacks PVE out of the box. I have never done server management with mods before and I believe to reach the PVE type I would have to do this. Also I assume this would increase just overall cost being that plugins can cost money as well as server resources will demand it being its mods?

7 Days to Die - Tried to play this solo never could get into it but willing to try it once more as I keep seeing this. Curious how the group play is.

Ark - Same deal as 7 Days to Die.

Conan - Never played but I have seen it mentioned.

V Rising - I love this game but I worry that some friends want more of the immersion of being third / first person POV.

Appreciate any rec's

I am desperately trying to find the name of a game that I was eagerly waiting on its release a couple years ago. It was quite similar to Stardew Valley, but with third person camera and it was on an alien planet iirc. I remember seeing robot-like beings and alien-like critters. It had some story elements to it as well, along with NPC villages. I think it was also going to be multiplayer to some extent. In terms of graphics, I think they were on par with Animal Crossing or maybe even closer resembling that of Disney's Dreamlight Valley.

If you think you might know the name of this game, please let me know.

Thank you in advance!

EDIT: I think I finally found what I was looking for: Palia!

we are looking for game with alot of contents +100h ( we dont really care for story) for 3 players which one should we try from this list ?

• Icarus

• Saleblazers

• Return to Moria

• Forever Skies

• Factorio

• theHunter: Call of the Wild

• Abiotic Factor

• Vintage Story

• Soulmask

• Nightingale

• Lego Fortnite

• Aloft

• Palworld

• Aska

• Fallout 76

• Medieval Dynasty

• Bellwright

• Myth of Empires

I played Green Hell, Valheim, Icarus and No Mans Sky. But anyone knows survival with base bulding, maybe mining asteroids, good story?

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Like the name suggests I am searching for a free game that is like Ark I downloaded unturned and will to live and both are good but they don't have the ability to tame stuff which is what I like most about Ark which is creating your army and because I live in Syria I can't buy ark because of the sanctions and my PC doesn't run it anyways I only play ark mobile So i want some recommendations some steam games or PC games in general that are like Ark especially the taming part that are free. Thank you!​

Just finished V Rising and it was some of the most fun I've had playing a game in ages which is funny as the only reason I got it was I rewatched helsing ultimate. The bosses were interesting, the base building was great, combat was accessible for someone who is terrible at pvp and yet still challenging (Overall great game 8/10 because after the last boss all there is to do is build and get every achievement).

My steam library consists of Factorio Satisfactory Astroneer Shapez Hydroneer Dyson sphere program V Rising

So is there any similar games to V Rising that council deems to be something I'd probably enjoy.

TLDR: What do you guys think of Plains of pain, the last plague: blight, Rising World, Wild Frontier and Conan Exiles?

I'm looking for a new game to dive in, but I'm having trouble finding one that hooks me. Examples of games I like are Green Hell, Don't Starve, The Long Dark, Stardew, Vintage Story, and the likes. I can only dedicate a couple of hours for a few days a week, so I would avoid games that dont respect your personal life (like VS). The next on the list would be:

• Plains of pain: I've heard good things about the general idea, but that the actual implementation is not that great. The Mad Max vibes attract me, but the "zombies" do not.

• The last plague: blight : I've heard it is super grindy, but the few rhing I've saw really convinced me it is worth a try, I'm just waiting for a sale lol.

• Rising World: seems like a smoothed version of VS (voxels based, but not blocks). It looks great, but maybe too focused on building. Survival does not seem like a challenge, as there is no real hunting mechanics for example (you rather just poke animals with your spear).

• Wild Frontier: looks chilled and fun, but I've read several reviews mentioning game breaking bugs, and the game seems abandoned since it hasn't received updates since 2023.

• Conan exiles: I heard that single player kind of sucks, unfortunately.

I would love to hear your opinions about these, and I appreciate any suggestions as well :)

I would like a good farming game where are you take care of animals and some crops and base building. But not with any kind of monsters or zombies or bad guys. I don't like farming simulator because I don't know the machines or understand them. Seems like it would be a good game if you were knowledgeable about that stuff. I have farmers Dynasty and it's OK but there's not a lot of taking care of the animals. I have Icarus which seems OK again no farm animals really. I just want to survive and farm and ranch. Is that possible?

I don't get it.

Building bases in RTS (real time strategy) games like StarCraft and Age of Empires is infinitely enjoyable for me.

Building bases in survival games sounds awesome to me, in theory, but I never really enjoy it. Or at least, I never enjoy it nearly as much.

Can anyone relate? Does anyone have any theories why when both genres feel kind of similar in a way?

The only thing I can think of as to why would be that I enjoy thinking about defenses and placing important buildings out of harms way. I like choosing my base locations based on strategic positioning and I guess I don't get that from survival games too much? Maybe someone else could shine some light on this particular aspect of the survival genre?

EDIT: Thread was inspired by the latest Enshrouded Pact of the Flame update. The base building looks awesome in the trailer but I keep thinking...it's just cosmetic stuff.

back when I was a kid I played a lot of Ragnarok online...one of my favourite classes was the cruzader, just because you could mount a bipedal bird (peco peco) and you can fight while mounting it so you were like this mounted knight fighting demons and stuff. lately I got these memories and felt nostalgic so I was looking for games with mounted combat, there are a few but not as much as it should since a lot of game have the "knight" archetype but not so much as a mounted fighter or jouster i think its called.

and now I've been reading that ark has this system which allows you to attack while mounting an animal you own...(idk nothing about the game) Im obviously interested but I have a lot of questions:

is it fun?

its worth focusing in this mechanic?

how much content can I do with mounted combat?

if its how I think it is...I will give ark in single player pve since im not a muliplayer guy

thanks for answers

Hi, as title says. I loved that game, have 400 hours in it and still miss the times.

So any rly good new ones? Should be MMO, full PVP, Sandbox, Building and survival.
And no, not Rust pls, I stopped it long ago, couldnt handle the naked stone attacks. Yikes.
I tried a few, but most are king of the hill stuff no long time basebuilding and more.
Thnx!

So I lived on Ark and can't get into ASA. I need a great survival game like ark just not ark

recently I played a zombie minecraft modpack, and I really enjoyed the experience of setting up your own camp and going to get supplies to survive, but because it's a modpack and minecraft it wasn't one of the most detailed and realistic things out there, any indication of any game like this???

Hello, I'm finishing up Palworld and trying to decide what I want to play through next. I liked the pals doing all the farming/crafting but wasn't a big fan of the futuristic tech and that the best way to farm the endgame areas was using a rocket launcher since the pals die so quick.

I haven't looked into any of these 3 so I figured I'd ask here and see what people think.

This is really specific but I'm looking for a survival game in like the 17th century, where I can hunt with black powder rifles, u can trade with townsfolk. I can either be a colonist or be a native from the land, i think it would be cool if it had a temp. deal were depending where i am at ill have to wear certain clothes. There is also bounties you can hunt, craft bows, spears, knives, axes, and etc. I just think a game like this would be cool. Idk why ive been thinking of this for like the last week.