The survival genre has been growing at an incredible rate lately, thanks to games like Minecraft, Fallout, DayZ and State of Decay, the genre is thriving. Below is a list of what we think are the 10 greatest survival games.
Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
"The Vancouver-based (Canada) indie games developer Blinkmoon Games are today very happy and proud to announce that their dark fantasy bullet heaven "Necromantic", is coming to PC via Steam Early Access in 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Athenian Rhapsody is a JRPG with a difference: alongside turn-based combat & exploration, you'll need to complete WarioWare-style microgames.
I guess it doesn't really count but I thought Farcry 2 and 3 deserve spots on the list. You had to deal with malaria in no. 2 and animals and random patrols of pirates in no. 3. Not to mention you could hunt, take out hits and harvest plants and such for survival perks.
I don't feel Alan Wake would benefit from being an open world game.
It's a story driven game, it was interesting and if it was open world, then you would be going off doing side quests and forgetting the story. Collecting manuscripts was pretty cool and being able to read the story.
DayZ is a great survival game. But where's ZombiU, it's pretty good, especially with that perma-death thing where you have to re-kill yourself.
Otherwise this is a pretty solid list.
This list is missing Stalker.
Why no The Last of Us?