Survival game

Survival games comprise a loose genre featuring a player character who is stranded and struggling to survive in a wilderness environment. Gameplay typically involves satisfying the PC's needs for food, water, shelter, and other basic needs.

Games in this genre often feature crafting, procedural generation, exploration, and open world or sandbox gameplay. Roguelike elements are sometimes present. Often there is no win condition or explicit goal – the challenge is simply to survive for as long as possible.

Survival games often model complex game worlds with many interacting mechanics, such as a day/night cycle, weather (including life-threatening situations such as extreme heat or cold), renewable flora and fauna, fire propagation, farming, crafting and building, etc.

Examples

 * Minecraft
 * Don't Starve
 * Project Zomboid