Best 5 Survival Games for PC – With Key Features and System Requirement

Why survival games are so popular? It should not be hard to understand. Surviving is a basic instinct, fighting to stay alive is coded in our DNA. Same reason why we like Battle Royale games so much. There are a lot of survival games on PC but the best one will push you hard against difficult problems so you can come up with creative solutions.

This is a widespread genre and mentioning only 5 out of them is not fair. Below I will mention 5 survival games that you can enjoy on your computer. This is not a ranking, I am just going to mention 5 of the best survival games and this is totally my personal choice.

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#5 The Forest

The Forest

The forest is a first-person survival game developed and published by Endnight Games Ltd. In the game, you play the role of a lone survivor of a jet crash. You find yourself in the middle of a dense forest fighting a society of cannibalistic mutants. Explore the open-world jungle as you build weapons and tools to survive in the first person horror simulator.

Key Features of the game:

1. You can explore the amazing open-world of the game. Trees and plants can be chopped down. Explore the cave network below the ground to move faster and safer.

2. You can use the chopped down trees and plants to build a shelter or start a fire to stay warm. The open-world allows you to hunt for your food.

3. Players can build anything, a small shelter in the jungle or a beach fortress near the ocean. You can set traps around your shelter to keep a safe perimeter.

4. Explore and build everything in the daytime and use the night to protect your shelter, you can hunt during the evening before it gets too dark. The environment in the game matters a lot. Use it to your strength.

5. You will fight a horde of enemies that are almost human and has family and morals.

6. You can either evade the enemies using your stealth or fight them directly using you own built weapons and tools.

Minimum System Requirement:

OS: Windows 7

Processor: Intel dual-core 2.4 GHz or above

Memory: 4 GB RAM

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or above

Storage: 5GB space

DirectX: Version 9.0

Note: 32-bit users need to make sure they have at least 4GB usable RAM.

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#4 Don’t Starve

Don't Starve

As the game says, don’t starve and most importantly don’t die. Don’t Starve is an open world survival game full of magic and science. The game was developed and published by Klei Entertainment.

Enter a strange and unexpected world of mysterious creatures and danger. This game follows the classic survival game rules. Gather resources and build your items and weapons to survive in the open-world thriller survival game.

“You play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.”

Key Features of the Game:

1. This game introduces you to uncompromised survival experience and exploration. No instruction, no help, no spoon feeding. Players can craft items and weapons, hunt in the map, research, farm, and fight. It all depends on your specific play style and how you want to deal with things.

2. The visual is really dark and surprising. A 2D character in a 3D game? Crikey! Encounter the odd and mysterious creatures.

3. This game should be the heaven of depressed emo kids. Bored of the map? This game allows you to generate a living breathing new map that hates your very existence and wants you to die.

Minimum System Requirement:

OS: Windows XP/ Windows 7 or any newer version of Windows.

Processor: Any 1.7 GHz processor or better ones.

Memory: 2 GB RAM or higher

Graphics: Any GPU 2 GB or higher

HDD: 500 MB space or higher

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#3 Dying Light

Dying Light

Dying light is an open world first-person horror-themed action-adventure survival game. The game was developed by Techland and published by Techland Publishing. Roam the dangerous open world of a city devastated by mysterious tragedy. Just like any other classic survival game, hunt for gears and items to craft your weapon before you jump into the fight against a horde of flesh-eating zombies.

Key Feature of the Game:

1. Unique Parkour gameplay is a very interesting feature of the game. Explore the open world of Dying Light, go anywhere inside any building or climb up anywhere to get a vision of your enemies. While hunting or evading the hunters you can roam around the city freely in this fast-paced game. Jump from rooftops to rooftops or climb a wall to attack your enemies from the top. Master you parkour skills and use them in combats.

2. Fast-paced Cooperative gameplay of the game makes it even more interesting as you can team up with your buddies and explore the campaigns together. Take part in the cooperative challenges and show off your customized characters with different outfits.

3. The day-night circle of the game matters a lot in the gameplay. In the daylight, you search the city for weapons and tools while at night the creatures come out and you have to fight them to stay alive. While you hunt in the day, you hide and survive at night. The creatures will keep getting stronger as you progress in the game.

Minimum System Requirement:

OS: Windows 7/8/ 8.1 or above. 64-bit only

Processor: Intel Core i5 or higher

Memory: 4GB RAM DDR3

Hard Drive: 40GB available space

GPU: GeForce GTX 560 or newer versions

Note: Laptop version of the graphics card may work but are NOT officially supported.

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#2 7 Days to Die

7 Days to Die

This is a very special game and why is it a very special game? Because 7 Days to Die is a very unique combination of First Person Shooter, Role Playing Games, Tower Defense, and horror survival.

Just like any other classic survival game you need to craft your own weapons and building in the game. The game is set in a brutal post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead. The game allows you to loot, mine, research, craft, combat and grow your character. Play the zombie survival to feel it.

Key Features of the Game:

1.Explore, craft and build. The open world allows you to interact with it and create weapons and buildings for yourself that will match your play style. Play the game with full freedom in the unique biomes.

2.You can work with other players and help each other to build what you need to survive or you can play against other players and loot their base.

3. You can grow your character and improve your gameplay by learning new techniques and survival skills.

4. You can find quests by finding out buried treasure maps left by other players and search for the treasure.

5. You can grow plants and farm or you can hunt to collect your resources. The game also allows you to drive the badass vehicles available in the game.

6. Looting and destroying is a big part of the game. You can loot other players and from the game to help yourself crafting new weapon, the structures and the open world can be destroyed with structural damage or they can collapse cause of their own bad structure.

Minimum System Requirement:

OS: Windows XP/7 or higher

Processor: 2.4 GHz dual core or higher

Memory: 6 GB RAM or above

Graphics: 1 GB memory GPU cards or higher. Any new GPU will work fine.

HDD: 4 GB free space

Note: Running the server and client on the same PC will cause double usage of RAM. The future updates might require more HDD space.

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#1 RUST

RUST

You can’t leave Rust out if you are making a list of Survival Games. The one and only aim in Rust is to survive. You fight hunger, cold, thirst, and other players. You overcome your struggles and do whatever it takes to survive in the open world of rust.

You can build a shelter to protect yourself, build fire to keep yourself warm, hunt the wild animals for meat or fight and kill other players for meat. Create your alliance with other players and form a town. Do what all you need to do to survive.

Key Features of the Game:

1.The multiplayer is definitely a key feature. You can either build with them or destroy them. You can make a town with your alliance or hunt other players for the meat.

2. Building - is always a key feature of any survival game. Build your shelter and protect yourself from the ruthless world of Rust.

3. You can hunt wild animals for meat and fight with hunger. The amazing real-life struggles like hunger, thirst or cold is a key a feature of the game. Hunt an animal to eat or build a fire to stay warm in the freezing cold.

Minimum System Requirement:

OS: Windows 7 or higher. 64-bit only

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 or better

Memory: 8 GB RAM or higher

GPU: GTX 670 2GB or higher

Storage: 20 GB of available space

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