Presenting The Escapist’s definitive list of the best survival games to play in 2026 across all platforms and genres.

With just over three weeks before launch, here's a list of games to tide you over until Feb. 27.

Gamers who love Subnautica's deep sea survival and base building but crave more combat have the perfect Steam game to check ...

Survival games have been around for a while, and for good reason. Games that challenge you to stay alive by gathering resources, battling enemies, and slowly building up your defenses offer a gameplay ...

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Jaime Tugayev is the News Editor for DualShockers with over a decade of experience, and a much longer love for fantasy, shooters and strategy games. I love survival games because they tap into a ...

Prologue: Go Wayback's stripped-back approach to the survival game genre has kept it firmly on my radar. It foregoes monsters and loot-hungry hostiles in favor of the most terrifying predator of all: ...

Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you ...

Cairn is a survival climbing game that was released on January 29, 2026. As part of its gameplay, you get to scale towering ...

Indie game developer and publisher Crosswind Crew has revealed that their latest game, the aptly named Crosswind, will be coming out sometime in 2026. The game takes a different approach to being a ...

It's full of brutal combat (you'll die, a lot), clever exploration (lots of unique, game-changing weapons to equip), and it ...