Nightingaletakes survival gaming to new magical lands, using interesting new mechanics and interesting lore to ground you into the Fae Realms. With a stylish gaslamp fantasy setting and a pretty intuitive learning system, you can easily get enraptured by this game.
If you’ve already done everything or simply want more of the same vibe, then you’ll be glad to know that there are more worlds out there waiting for you to survive them.
Growing up is hard enough without getting shrunk into the size of an ant, but that’s just the way the cookie crumbles inGrounded. In this game, you play one of four teens who has become essentially trapped in a backyard.
Through science and discovery, you may just go back to your regular size and find out who did this to you! Of course, this is under the assumption you don’t get turned into spider dinner first.
9Valheim
Huge Lands For Vikings To Explore
InValheim, you are a slain Viking who must prove yourself worthy to Odin before you are welcomed to Valhalla. To do so, you must build your base in the realm of Valheim and defeat the dark enemies that lurk within. You’re essentially the cleanup crew for Odin’s secret tenth realm full of his foes, but it’s no easy posting.
As a procedurally generated world, no two playthroughs will be exactly the same. All that keeps them tied together is theheavy lore that permeates Valheim’s narrative.
What an adorable little monster! Hit it!Palworldis a fun survival and creature-collector game that forces you to look past the adorable facade of its many not-quite-Pokemon beasts because you need meat and lackeys.
Palworld tries to mix a lot of things into one game, but it’s hard to complain because it does it well. Here, you don’t just build a base and hope to survive. Youcan breed Pals, get guns, make a farm, start a factory, and more! Just treat your Pals well so they don’t unionize against you.
As the title notes, you have7 Days To Die. Zombies are rampaging through the desolate streets, and you need to survive them. You can pretty easily get around them during the day, but the night makes them significantly more powerful.
This is what makes base-building and preparation so important for the scavengers who find themselves in this world. Navezgane is the base world, but you’re able to also spawn your own space. Either way, you need to be most careful about the Blood Moon that happens every seven days. Hordes upon hordes will attack with a bloodthirst that can truly make you question your planning skills.
You simply can’t go wrong withSubnauticaif you’re looking for more survival goodness. You start out crashing into an unfamiliar world that is mostly ocean, which spurs you on to discover what lies beneath the surface.
In these oceanic depths, you will find plenty of stunning locations, peculiar creatures, and a mystery that urges you to dive even deeper. If you’re particularly brave, you may even swim around in the night.
5Voidtrain
The True Midnight Train Going Anywhere
If you enjoy dimension-hopping, then it’s time to hop onto Voidtrain. Here, you maintain and upgrade your interdimensional express train as you traverse the Void. Along the way, you must face various creatures and go through gates that bring you to everchanging landscapes.
You can speed through it all with guns locked and loaded or ride slow and collect every mystery you come across. It’s a seemingly endless ride as you go through the Void and seek out the end… so far.
Enshrouded sees you taking the role of the Flameborn, finding yourself waking up to a world that is far from its once beautiful state. You must fight the corruption that runs across the kingdom, but you’re going to need some solid tools and a decent home base to do that. Heroes need their rest, too!
The Embervale realm has much for you to discover, making the game one of thebest survival titles on PC. It even surpassed two million players in less than a month since its launch.
If a tree falls in the forest and cannibals hear it, well, you’re effectively screwed.Sons of the Forestis the wildly popular follow-up to the horror survival game,The Forest. In the new forest, you must find a billionaire gone missing and try not to die in your search.
Weather and disease aren’t the only things threatening to kill you in the forest. There are also cannibals, mutations, and mysterious artifacts that can easily derail your priorities.
2Icarus
Survival On A Mission
Icarusis all about facing new frontiers. Terraforming goes wrong on the namesake planet, and you have to deal with the aftermath. Such is the nature of man and the need for expansion.
The gameplay in Icarus is mission-based, which means you have determined objectives and a deadline to meet them. This also means you shouldn’t get too attached to your base and any items you pick up along the way, because they’ll be long-gone by the time you come back for your next task.
InRaft, you have only yourself and your raft (of course) as you attempt to survive the Earth now that it has succumbed to polar ice caps melting. Try to find remnants of humanity and explore vast cities that have long been abandoned and ruined by coastal tragedy.
As the story unfolds, you must upgrade your raft to make it a formidable base that won’t crumble to pieces because of a shark attack. If you think manning the raft solo is too ‘Cast Away’ for your liking, you can bring some friends along for the adventure.
