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

Every open-world survival game fan needs to play these near-perfect games.

Horror? Guaranteed. Survival? Less so.

These survival games are the best to come back to and explore to your heart's content solo or with friends time and time again.

A ton of great new survival games have come out in recent years, but these older classics are still worth revisiting.

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Ever since Resident Evil exploded onto the scene in 1996 and made inventory reshuffling in the face of a zombie outbreak popular, players have been regularly fighting down to their very last bullet.