In survival games, the player must live in a hostile environment, using skills and equipment to stay alive. Often starting out with nothing, survival games require players to eat, craft tools, hunt animals, build shelters, and gather resources. Some games have goals, with bosses to defeat or challenges to overcome, but most survival games task the player to simply live for as long as they can.

Yes. You can select the ‘Controller Support’ tag on the Browse page to find survival games with controller support within the store. This link will also take you to the survival games with controller support for the PC.

Yes. In fact, most survival games are open world, thanks to the need for a large map and resource gathering. Resources are usually spread across a large area for the player to hunt them down and combine.

You can search for the “Open World” tag on the Browse page to find open world survival games within the store. This link will take you to the Open World Survival Games we have tagged on the Epic Games Store.

Yes. You can use the “Single Player” tag on the Browse page to find offline survival games within the store. That will show you all the Single Player Survival Games we have tagged on the Epic Games Store.

A lot of survival PC games have multiplayer, which makes their world even harsher. You’ll be playing against real people, who might be friendly, or they might decide to take all your stuff.
You can select the “Multiplayer” tag on the Browse page to find online survival games within the store to discover all the Multiplayer Survival Games on the Epic Games Store.

Almost every survival game strives to be realistic. Some of the key elements of the genre--hunger, thirst, shelter, and protecting yourself from harm--are universal themes. They’re basic requirements that people outside of games are required to manage. Any survival game striving to be considered realistic should have those elements above all else. You can have realism of this kind in any genre of game, be it post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, or fantasy.