Stranded 2
Have you ever had an experience of being stranded on an island alone? Well if not then try Stranded 2, this game will surely challenge you to survive on a distant island all by yourself. The game is a mind-blowing production of Unreal Software and is available to play on PC. Stranded 2, allows you to experience a unique game-play in which your only task is to survive. You can choose between the story and sandbox game modes to enjoy the different challenges and endings of the game. You’ll have to scavenge for food, water, and supplies to stay alive and also to fight against the hostile creatures like dinosaurs, lions and the natives of the island. While playing the game, you’ll have a chance to learn different things and gain some cool skills to survive and increase your efficiency at different tasks like fishing, digging and hunting, etc.
#1 Don’t Starve Together
Don’t Starve Together is a standalone Action-Adventure and Survival expansion pack of the original Don’t Starve with Multiplayer functionality. The game offers Reign of Giants mod that features new characters, new challenges, Puzzles, biomes, seasons and creatures to immerse you with the game-play a bit more tightly. As the same character of Wilson, you’ll have to explore a strange world filled with all the strangest creatures, hazards, dangers and wonders. In order to survive, you’ll have to gather as much resources as you can, craft items with all the available materials, build different structures, interact with other online players, fight them off of your property and save your items, or simply befriend other online players, explore the world together survive the harshest environment and Survive. With a wonderful setting, cool visuals, enhanced mechanics and an addictive game-play, Don’t Starve Together is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#2 This War of Mine
This War of Mine is a superb new Side-Scrolling, Action, Survival and Stealth video game that takes you to an amazing war torn world where you will have to act as a survivor instead of being a soldier. Your basic task is to survive in a world where almost everything is so rare. You’ll have to survive facing the worst shortage of food, medical supplies and under the heavy danger of snipers and hostile scavengers. As the game is set in a war torn world and it features day and night cycles as the main game-play times, you should avoid getting out of the shelter during the day because the snipers won’t let you out, but in night you must get out using your sneaky and stealth skills, accompany one of your trusted men and go out on scavenging missions for food and other supplies. Your main task is to stay alive, collect the items, return to your hideout, craft different items and trade them for different goods etc. Instead of going on missions to kill the enemies, This War of Mine tasks you to stay in your hideout, defend it against the enemies (Snipers and Scavengers) and save everybody around you by the use of different weapons, tactics and your skills. With a wonderful setting, great visual details, an addictive game-play, This War of Mine is a cool game to play and enjoy.
#3 Ark: Survival Evolved
Ark: Survival Evolved is an Open World Third and First-person Survival and Action-Adventure video game by Studio Wildcard. The game offers a strictly survival-oriented gameplay and to survive, it allows the players to explore the Island, search for all the required resources (By breaking the stones, cutting down trees, etc.), and craft various items, build a base and enjoy being part of a truly remarkable world. Ark: Survival Evolved provides the players with an Ark, a map to the island that is 48 kilometers in total size. The map includes a land mass of 36 Square kilometers and an ocean that measures 12 Square kilometers. As Survival is the main bet in the game, Ark: Survival Evolved allows the players to build a Base, gather wood for Fire and items to craft Primary Weapons such as Pick Axe, Hatchet, and Spear, etc. Once the players have shelter, and they have crafted weapons, they can start exploring the island, reach to the Dinosaurs, Capture and Tame them (requires more resources). With all the Structural erections, Players can craft weapons by collecting more resources and technology needed for them. On advanced levels of the game, players can also create guns and part for them with the help of right resources and technology and experience. Ark: Survival Evolved lets the players earn Engram Points by Leveling up to the advanced stages of the game. Once on an advanced level, players can use Engram points to learn various techniques to craft items and enjoy the game even more. It includes more than sixty types of different Dinosaurs in the game and the players can either tame them, breed them for more species, ride on them or kill them for food or use their abilities to ease up a bit. Weapons can be mounted on Dinosaurs and players can use them while riding on them. Ark: Survival Evolved offers playability for both Male and Female characters and offers loads of customization options for the characters as well. All things considered Ark: Survival Evolved is a brilliant combination Action, Adventure, Survival and Crafting elements. So are you ready to ride on the back of a T-Rex to hunt for prey, fly on a Pterodactyl, build alliances with fellow players and fight off the enemies in a way it leaves really deep marks on them? Well, you should be because Ark: Survival Evolved is a fantastic game to play.
#4 Don’t Starve
Don’t Starve, developed by Klei Entertainment is an Action-Adventure, Survival and Roguelike video game. The story features a Scientist named as Wilson who finds himself in a very dark and eerie place. In his struggle to survive, Don’t Starve tasks you to help Wilson keep him fed, healthy and mentally stable while avoiding various types of supernatural enemies who want to kill him. To add more depth to the gameplay, Don’t Starve offers Adventure mode that tasks the players to go against the Antagonist Maxwell and defeat him in epic encounters. The game offers Point and Click based combat in the game and allows you to be able to survive for as long as possible, keep on progressing throughout the gameplay by earning experience points and using upgrades such as Meat Effigy, life Giving Amulet and Touch Stone etc. Don’t Starve offers brilliant story and environments, fantastic game visuals and an immersive gameplay to enjoy.
#5 Rust
Rust is a Multiplayer Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game by Facepunch Studios. Currently, in the Alpha phase, Rust offers early access to the game on Steam. Set in a massive Open World, Rust allows you to survive in an unfriendly environment by simply crafting different items, exploration and by finding the supplies such as Food, Water, Shelter, loot, Weapons and medical Supplies, etc. It spawns you right in the middle of other online players and lets you use your wit to find ways in which you can survive. You must stay well fed to avoid starvation and drink plenty of water in order to eliminate the threat of being dehydrated. Encounters with the creatures will definitely result in your demise of win so you decide what to do. All the deadly creatures, harsh weather conditions, and all the obstacles must not defeat you if you want to survive. Rust with all the wonderful mechanics, visuals and immersive game-play is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.
#6 Darkwood
Darkwood is an Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game that offers an Open World game-play with procedurally generated game levels. It blends in RPG, Action, Adventure and Roguelike elements beautifully and allows you to immerse yourself deeply into an amazing game-play. Left alone as an unknown character, you’ll have to seek for the reasons why you were left in this godforsaken and unforgiving world alone without any help. You’ll also have to scavenge for supplies, weapons and survive in an environment where countless terrors are waiting for you as you further deep into the world of Darkwood. Discover the secrets of unknown and solve challenging mysteries and puzzles, trade with or kill the mysterious natives of the Darkwood and survive till your last breath. With a number of skills to learn, perks to enjoy and crafting options, Darkwood lets you set traps for food and enemies, barricade yourself or go out hunting the hunters, it totally depends on the actions you perform. Be careful of all the creatures lurking in the dark, keep your sanity intact and find out the secrets of Darkwood.
#7 FarSky
FarSky takes you to an amazing world of Seas where you’ll witness an amazing Action-Adventure and Survival experience ever. The game lets you be the protagonist named Nathan who gets lost in the deep seas after his submarine gets crashed badly. With no possible way to go, you’ll have to remain in the seas and learn how to survive as all the sea creatures do. In order to survive, you’ll have to get familiar with the environment, gather up the resources such as different materials to craft different items and tools, build a base, build an oxygen making and storing unit, use different weapons to secure yourself from all the hazards of the sea and explore to the limits. In order to stay well fed, you must create a fish hunting and keeping farm and survive as long as you can. The ultimate goal is to find all the missing pieces of your crashed submarine, repair them and repair your submarine and escape the seas. With a colorful and randomly generated environment, amazing sea creatures to interact with, cool visuals and an immersive game-play, FarSky is a brilliant game to play.
#8 The Long Dark
The Long Dark is a new Sandbox-Style Action-Adventure, Survival and Exploration-based video game that takes you to a Frozen World. The world around you gets devastated after a huge Geomagnetic event happens and the environment changes rapidly. Left in the wilderness, your task is to survive the chilling cold and all the threats Mother Nature throws at you. The game lets you think and find the ways to survive, explore the land, gather up the resources, create and craft different items with all the available materials, make shelter for yourself and keep yourself well fed by trapping the animals and drinking plenty of water. With an always changing environment and weather, loads of native creatures such as deer, rabbits, snakes, Wolves, Bears birds etc. you must know how to interact with them and how to survive the attacks. To save yourself from the unforgiving environment, you must know how to make cloths, harvest the wood to keep the fire burning, harvest different medicinal plants to make antibiotics and stuff etc. The Long Dark offers an amazing simulation like game-play, stunning visuals and lots of things to discover and Survive.
#9 Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Teleglitch: Die More Edition by Paradox Interactive is an amazing Rogue-like 2D Retro Action-Adventure, Survival RPG and Top-Down Shooter video game that takes you to a cold, dark and mega corporations plighted future of a small and shadowy planet on the edge of the galaxy. The game puts you right into the character of a scientist who gets trapped into a laboratory after an experiment on Necrotic Tissue Reactivation goes wrong and all the subject turn into fearsome mutants. Now you must survive huge waves of mutant enemies by using your abilities and weapons of different types. You must explore the premises and collect valuables, supplies and weapons, kill the mutants and finally destroy the laboratory to further stop the virus from spreading. With all the amazing things Teleglitch: Die More Edition offers, it’s a magnificent game to play and enjoy.
#10 Sir, You Are Being Hunted
This super thriller, Action-Adventure, Horror Survival and shooter video game is a great creation of Big Robot Games. Sir, You Are Being Hunted lets you roam into an open world and survive the hordes of Hunters (Robots dressed as the Victorian Gentlemen). The robots are following you only to capture you and kill you after the investigation. You must survive using all the things like weapons and objects and escape the island. There are a lot of items of interests hidden in the towns, you can find them and use them to survive and plan your escape. The enemies are way too stronger in the game and they can get help from dogs, balloons or sentries etc. to keep you out from the premises you are not allowed to enter. The robots with all the unique tactics try to lure and capture you so you better be careful even when touching an object. Other great features of the game are the Unique and engaging game-play, Randomly generated game worlds, super realistic graphics and a great story. Sir, You Are Being Hunted is an awesome game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#11 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a Horror Survival and Action-Adventure video game produced in the studios of Frictional Games. The game is about a man named Daniel who finds himself in an asylum like castle and has absolutely no memory of his past. He gets up, picks up the notes with strange writings scattered all around the place, and starts finding his way out of the haunted castle. While walking down the corridors, he feels the presence of an unknown entity who keeps on following him wherever he goes. Haunted by the fear and bizarre happenings and voices all around him, he struggles to remember his past and get rid of the unearthly being following him. Your task is to get into the character of Daniel, start exploring the Asylum. collect all the notes and objects necessary to plan your escape. Amnesia: The Dark Descent offers beautifully created visuals, a great storyline and an addictive gameplay to enjoy.
#12 Faceless
Faceless, previously known as the Slender Source is a Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure and Sci-Fi video game developed by Blacklight Studios and published by Sklarlight. This game is available to play on Microsoft Windows and Steam only with single and multiplayer gaming modes. As this game bases on the previously known game Slender Source, it features a tall, thin and a faceless being that haunts you wherever you go or whatever you do. In the game, the player sets out to collect the Dolls scattered and hid all over the place. With every doll collected, the faceless being becomes more fast and tries to trap you in any way possible. Once again, the player character is loaded with just a flashlight instead of all the fancy weapons in the world. If the player is able to collect all the dolls in time without being caught by the faceless being, he finishes the search and the episode of the game concludes. Faceless offers beautiful visuals, dark theme and an addictive gameplay to enjoy.
#13 Slender: The Arrival
Slender: The Arrival by Blue Isle Studios is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Sci-Fi Shooter video game and a direct sequel to the best selling game Slender: Eight Pages. The game starts with the protagonist (Player) inside an abandoned building. He can see the Slender Man outside but when he gets out in the open, the slender man goes to a much farther distance and can be seen on top of the hills. Loaded with just a flashlight, He starts searching for the pages and during his search slender man suddenly appears in front of him and because of slender man’s slightly changing behavior, he sometimes kills the protagonist and sometimes he leaves him alive with a little bit of his health wasted. The player carries on searching and if he finds out all the eight pages before the slender man gets to him, the search finishes and the level of the game concludes.
#14 The Culling
The Culling is a Fast-paced Action and Multiplayer Battle Royal style First-person Combat and Shooter video game by Xaviant. Released recently in 2016, The Culling offers the most thrilling and quite engaging gameplay to enjoy. According to the gameplay and the Unique Story of the game, The Culling takes the players to a Small deserted Island filled with various types of buildings. To progress through the game, The Culling lets the players explore the Island, traverse through the Caves, Poison Gas pits, and in between the Landmine fields and lanes of Explosive Barrels, etc. The game tasks the players to complete various types of tasks in an open world environment. The tasks that the players have to complete include Living for a While Travelling to certain distances interacting with the objects and loads of other things in the environment, etc. While completing the Tasks, the players receive F.U.N.C (Game Currency) that the players can use to Craft items, purchase various types of items, and buy upgrades and stuff. The Culling also allows the players to receive perks via Air Drops, combine them to have different types of combinations and use them against the enemies. These unique Combinations are called Builds, and the players are allowed to make millions of unique Builds, using the perks they have. With a very interesting gameplay and all the uniqueness in details, fantastic Perks and beautifully created graphics; The Culling is one of the few Multiplayer Battle Royale games that provide with quality gaming. Do try it out, The Culling is fun to play.
#15 Haunted Memories
Haunted Memories is an Episodic, Action-Adventure, Shooter and Horror-Survival video game. The game kicks off with an amnesiac man waking up in the woods nearing a power station. You are allowed to set yourself up into the character of that amnesiac man, explore the world around you, collect items and weapons, fight and kill the enemies. Your worst fear is that you are continuously being hunted by Mark Slender a giant paranormal entity with no face, black suit and lots of tentacles. You must find out the map, explore the surroundings and find out the way out of the woods before that Slender creature captures you. Haunted Memories is an episodic video game that allows you to experience the game in different environments, settings and with different objectives. With a mystic nature, a lot of enemies to fight with, six different episodes, an amazingly horror and creepy game-play, this game is quite fun to play and enjoy. Play it out and you’ll love every bit of this brilliant game.
#16 Anna
Anna is a Puzzle, Psychological Horror, and Single-player video game created by Dreampainters Software and published by Kalypso Media. One day the protagonist woke up and find himself in a haunted called Sawmill situated in the North of Italy. The game casts you in the role of the protagonist, and your main task is to explore the horrific world, find clues and solve a series of complex puzzles to find a way out. The game world filled with spirits, ghosts, and other deadly creatures and can raise your heartbeat. Explore the game world, unearth its secrets, interact with objects and NPCs and progress through the game to unlock further content. It features multiple ends depends on your decisions during the gameplay. Other unveil environment unlocks as you fulfill the game’s requirements. Anna offers core features such as a Hunting Tale, Physics-based Environment, Eight Endings, New Environments, Puzzles, Heart pumping Sounds, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#17 Dying Light: Harran Ranger Bundle
Dying Light: Harran Ranger Bundle is a Downloadable Content Pack for Dying Light: The Following: Enhanced Edition developed and published by Techland. The game mixes the Action Role-playing, First-person Shooter and Single-player video game available to play on multiple platforms. The DLC pack introduces a new buggy paint job, outfits for your character, armors, four new blueprints, and more. You assume the role of the protagonist with a task to explore the thrilling environment from a first-person perspective to solve multiple objectives. The game takes place in the open world detailed environment, consisting of mountains, jungle, and rivers. You explore the broad landscape either on foot or by vehicle. Fight enemies and take down them to earn experience points that you can use to unlock additional content. The game becomes tough, as you advanced. Immerse yourself in Role-playing gameplay experience and raise up your rank throughout the game. Craft multiple weapons and change the appearance of your character using customization features. Dying Light: Harran Ranger Bundle includes core features such as New Outfits, Weapons, Upgrades, and more. Try it out.
#18 Stranded Deep
Stranded Deep is an Adventure, Survival, First-person Exploration, and Single-player video game published and developed by Beam Team Games. The game takes place in the Pacific Ocean, and the story centers on a plane crash survivor stranded in the deep waters. You, as the protagonist, find yourself in the life-invading scenarios. The game introduces dynamic day-night and weather systems and includes a building system to create shelters on an Island.
In the beginning, you have limited resources and items, however, as the game progresses, you will get access to further supplies essential to survive longer. It would help if you managed your vitals of thirst, blood, hunger against the challenges you face. It includes prominent features such as Terrain Variety, Co-op Gameplay, Random Collectibles, Physics-based Crafting System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#19 Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Overture is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game created by Frictional Games and published by Paradox Interactive. The game acts as the first title in the series of Episodic Survival and Horror game Penumbra. The player assumes the role of the protagonist who can explore the land from a first-person perspective and face the terror. It blends the psychological horror, survival and adventure genres. The gameplay revolves around exploration and adventure elements where the player can interact with objects such as find, examine and collect objects to solve tricky puzzles. Most of the levels involve finding keys or other specific objects that can use to solve the problem and earn points. The game also brings physics-based puzzles where the individual objects must be placed or moved in real-time. The story takes place in the year 2001, revolving around the plot of Philip, the protagonist who is 34-year-old physicist, whose mother has recently passed away. With prominent features, detailed mechanics, and improved gameplay, Penumbra: Overture a terrific game to play.
#20 Sunless Sea
Sunless Sea is a mix of Exploration, Surreal, Role-playing and Rogue-like elements developed and published by Failbetter Games for multiple platforms. It offers the universe of Fallen London where the game takes place, in which the fictional London has been moved under the surface of the Earth to the Unterzee’s edge. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, who is a steamship captain and must explore the dungeons to battle against enemies and complete a series of quests to earn experience points. During the gameplay, the player collects resources and can use to discover new locations, trading goods across the stunning environment, battling ships and take down zee monsters to advances through the plot. There are various types of rogue-like gameplay such as procedurally generated maps, permanent death, subsequent characters and more. The world is split into multiple islands and each island has a variety of quests, enemy types, and more. The player can sell items to earn money and use to raise his level. Sunless Sea is an addictive game to play and enjoy.
#21 Monstrum
Monstrum is a Rogue-like, Virtual Reality, Survival-Horror, and Single-player video game played from a first-person perspective, developed by Team Junkfish and published by Junkfish Limited. The game takes the traditional survival horror world, and it mixes it with completely randomly generated levels, AI-driven predators, permadeath, and more. It offers challenging gameplay and forces the player to use his wits and whatever tools he discover to outsmart or outrun his pursuer. During the gameplay, the player needs to attempt to escape from the hostile environment that is out to slay him while evading the lurking terror. There are three unique monsters that the player will discover while playing the game and each has its unique type, offering different behaviour and tactics. The game enables the player to get ready for a different gameplay environment each time the player plays as the interior of ship alter the shape with every run. Monstrum offers core features such as Several Opportunities and Hazards, Escape Routes, Procedural Arena, Permadeath, and more.
#22 Neo Scavenger
Neo Scavenger is another great Action-Adventure and Survival video game that leaves you right in the middle of a Wasteland and lets you survive in an unforgiving environment, find out who you really are and why are you here. The game totally lets you decide what to do with your life and where to go from here, how to start exploring the world, how to scavenge for all the necessary items and supplies and how to approach all the ones you encounter. In order to survive, you’ll have to keep yourself properly fed, and drink plenty of water because the dehydration element will challenge you again and again, lack of weapons and tool will force you to collect different materials and create useful items. You must know how to survive in an apocalyptic environment or else you’ll perish. With a marvelously unique setting, turn-based game-play, permadeath element presence, choices between sandbox or story modes, amazing crafting abilities and a totally realistic gaming experience, Neo Scavenger is one of the brilliant games of this genre ever created. Do try it out.
#23 7 Days to Die
7 Days to Die is another great Open World, Voxel-based Sandbox-style, RPG Horror-Survival and FPS Simulation by The Fun pimps. The game takes place in a War torn world where after the Third World War, a World Wide devastation follows. Humanity is left with very less resources and means to survive. As the Survivor of the World wide destruction, you are tasked to get out of hiding, scavenge for supplies such as Food, Water, medicine and Weapons in order to survive. Because of the nuclear apocalypse, almost half of the humans are turned into deadly mutants, you must avoid encountering any one of them and if you are face to face with any, shoot them down in order to survive and to help save other survivors. Because of not any specific objective, your only task is to survive by exploration, crafting items, looting etc. Dayz, 7 Days to Die would definitely be a brilliant choice is you love playing games with Action, horror, Survival and Shooting elements. Do try it out.
#24 Amnesia
Amnesia is a fantastic series of Horror Survival video games. All of the games in the series are published by the Frictional Games and offer a similar type of gameplay but different storylines, characters, and gameplays. Amnesia offers three main games in the series including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia: Justine (an expansion to Amnesia: The Dark Descent), and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (Sequel to Amnesia: The Dark Descent). Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is the most recent game in the series released back in 2013. With a variety of gameplay, fantastic mechanics, and characters throughout the series, Amnesia offers a truly realistic approach to the environments presented in the games. All the Horror, Thrill and Dark themes of the games are enough to scare the players to the edge of a breakdown. Playing the games of Amnesia series literally feels like being part of the game world and that actually makes all the games in the series more entertaining and thrilling at the same time. Another significant aspect of the Series is that it offers all the stories from the past. In Amnesia: The Dark Descent the game is about the protagonist named as Daniel, who struggles to know about his past while being haunted by the unknown entities. In Amnesia Justine, the protagonist is a Female named as Justine who finds herself in a competitive environment, helps and saves the homeless people, and pursues the only antagonist Dr. Victor Fournier, kills him and the game concludes. In Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, the Protagonist is Oswald Mandus, the grand nephew of Daniel who is an explorer and goes on various expeditions, creates a massive machine that builds Manpigs and other disastrous Swine monstrosities. Betrayed by an Engineer Oswald gets in trouble when the engineer takes control of the machine and unleashes the said monsters into the open. Oswald struggles to save his family and all the other in the game. Considering all the fantastic inclusions to the series, Amnesia is an excellent combination of highly addictive and engaging games. Try any one of the games and enjoy an amazingly immersive experience of Horror and Survival elements.