Best Survival

Amnesia: The Bunker is a masterclass in emergent horror. Set in a WWI bunker, you are hunted by a persistent, intelligent creature that reacts to your every sound and movement. Unlike previous entries...

The Resident Evil 4 Remake is the gold standard for modernizing a classic. It retains the campy charm and intense combat of the original while introducing modern movement, stealth mechanics, and a dar...

Subnautica is a captivating underwater survival adventure game set on an alien ocean planet. Players must scavenge resources, craft equipment, and build underwater bases to survive the depths. The gam...

The Last of Us Part I is a ground-up remake of the iconic Naughty Dog title. While the story remains the same, the visuals, animations, and AI have been completely overhauled to match the quality of i...

RimWorld is a sci-fi colony simulator driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. You manage a group of crash-landed survivors, building their base, managing their psychological needs, and defending agai...

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is the gold standard for disaster anime. It depicts a massive 8.0 magnitude earthquake hitting Tokyo, following two siblings, Mirai and Yuki, as they attempt to traverse the ruined...

John Wiseman's SAS Survival Handbook is a definitive guide to wilderness survival, drawing on the expertise of the British Special Air Service. It covers a vast range of topics, from basic first aid a...

Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' is a powerful and groundbreaking memoir depicting his father's experiences as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. The story is told through anthropomorphic animals Jews as mice...

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard revitalized the franchise by shifting to a first-person perspective and focusing on intimate, claustrophobic horror. Set in a derelict plantation house, you must survive aga...

The Hunger Games brought dystopian fiction to the mainstream, focusing on a televised fight to the death in a post-apocalyptic nation. It follows Katniss Everdeen, who volunteers to take her sister's...

The Hunger Games introduces readers to Panem, a nation built on the ruins of North America, where children are forced to fight to the death in a televised spectacle. Suzanne Collins' writing is fast-p...

This collection includes the first two games in the Zero Escape series: 999 and Virtue's Last Reward. Players are kidnapped and forced to participate in a deadly game where they must solve complex esc...

Angels of Death follows Rachel Gardner, a young girl who wakes up in the basement of an abandoned building with no memory. She soon encounters Zack, a scythe-wielding serial killer, and they form a pa...

The Revenant (2015) portrays Hugh Glass's harrowing journey of survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead in the 1820s American frontier. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu masterfully captur...

James Dashners The Maze Runner is a high-stakes, mysterious adventure set in a giant, shifting maze. Thomas wakes up in a place called the Glade with no memory of his past, surrounded by other boys. T...

Shadow of the Tomb Raider concludes the reboot trilogy, focusing on Lara's mastery of survival skills and her confrontation with a Mayan apocalypse. The game emphasizes stealth and exploration, with i...

Metro 2033 is a survival horror first-person shooter based on Dmitry Glukhovsky's novel of the same name. Set in the Moscow Metro after a nuclear apocalypse, players navigate a dark and claustrophobic...

First Blood is the definitive survivalist one-man-army film. Unlike its explosive sequels, this original entry is a tense, psychological drama about a traumatized Vietnam veteran pushed to the brink b...

A foundational work of Japanese horror, The Drifting Classroom follows an elementary school that is mysteriously transported to a desolate, apocalyptic future. The students and teachers must survive s...

Ronald D. Moore's reimagining of Battlestar Galactica is a dark and gritty space opera exploring themes of survival, faith, and the nature of humanity. Following a devastating attack by the Cylons, a...

Resident Evil 4 VR brings the iconic survival horror classic to virtual reality with impressive fidelity. Players experience the intense action and suspense of the original game from a first-person pe...

Despite being over a decade old, Alien: Isolation remains the definitive survival horror experience. Its AI-driven Xenomorph is still one of the most terrifying enemies in gaming, exhibiting unpredict...

A masterclass in claustrophobic action, this Indonesian film follows a SWAT team trapped in a tenement building run by a ruthless drug lord. The film is famous for its brutal, high-speed Pencak Silat...

School-Live! is a deceptive series that starts as a cute slice-of-life school anime before revealing its true nature as a dark survival horror. It follows a group of girls trying to survive a zombie a...

Alice in Borderland follows a group of friends transported to a desolate, parallel version of Tokyo where they must compete in lethal games to survive. The games are categorized by playing cards, with...

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater redefined stealth action with its emphasis on survival and realism. Players control Naked Snake as he undertakes a perilous mission in the Soviet Union. The game introd...

Minecraft: Pocket Edition brings the iconic sandbox experience to mobile devices. Players can collaborate to build incredible structures, explore vast worlds, and survive against hostile creatures. Th...

Seeking to restore humanity's diminishing hope, the Survey Corps embark on a mission to retake Wall Maria, where the battle against the merciless "Titans" takes the stage once again. Returning to the...

The film that defined the post-apocalyptic aesthetic for decades. Max, a drifter, helps a small community of settlers defend their oil refinery against a gang of marauders. It is a lean, mean, and inc...