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Upcoming survival games: 15 coming in 2026
Hunger, temperature, crafting and threat, managed rather than defeated. These have not been released, so none of them carry a score. They are ordered by when you can play them. For survival games you can play today, see the ranked survival games.
Every upcoming survival games we track
- as Steam has it
Until North EndsAnticipation 87
Fight, farm, and forage as a new experience awaits in this open-world survival crafting adventure. Journey alone or with friends as you build your own safe haven to weather the harsh Nordic landscapes before you.
- as Steam has it
Last Light: SurvivalAnticipation 85
A first-person survival game where you command the dead — because you are one of them. Build, craft, and survive while uncovering a truth buried in your own memories: you were the monster all along.
- as Steam has it
Roadside ResealAnticipation 32
A roadside store where the night never feels safe. Flickering lights, endless aisles, whispers from the dark. Each task feels like research into fear—you restock, you lock, you fight to keep the seal closed.The silence breaks, the air is heavy, and every moment is research into survival.
- as Steam has it
An Unknown LandAnticipation 31
Explore a mysterious island, gather resources, manage your flashlight and oil lamp, evade terrifying creatures, and survive as long as possible in this atmospheric single-player survival adventure.
- as Steam has it
Text Survival Rules - MicroAnticipation 31
Amid info nodes, you’re a codebreaker—each choice shifts the story. Click nodes for clues, pull key details from text, crack codes, link logic. When all light up, truth emerges: unravel with reason, or get stuck in a thought labyrinth? It depends on your calls.
- as Steam has it
Not Quite Dead: Open World SurvivalAnticipation 95
Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.
- as Steam has it
Crime Scene Clean: ParanormalAnticipation 88
Crime Scene Clean is about Sector 7 hides the supernatural from the world. You’re their cleaner—erasing cursed symbols, demonic traces, and forbidden rituals. No fame, no questions. Just silence, speed and survival. Clean haunted scenes, contain threats, and bury the truth before it spreads.
- as Steam has it
Out Of WaterAnticipation 19
OUT OF WATER is a visual novel about survival, myths, love, and choice. In 1 CE Watarholt, a quiet village prepares for winter - until bodies begin to surface. Shape your path through bonds, ancient horrors, and a fading peace. Will you fight, plead, or surrender to the waters?
- as Steam has it
The Sunset LandAnticipation 15
The Sunset Land is a survival CRPG. Journey across the burgeoning American frontier and become a legendary cowboy.
- as Steam has it
Service Equals SurvivalAnticipation 14
Service Equals Survival is an incremental real-time strategy and tower defence game, where you are a commander tasked with eliminating as many bugs as possible. Featuring limb-damage on bugs, turrets, airstrikes, and barbed wire.
- as Steam has it
Shardwatch DominionAnticipation 11
Build and upgrade towers to defend your crystal fortress from endless waves of enemies in this classic circular tower defense game. Strategic placement and powerful upgrades are key to survival.
- as Steam has it
Category 6Anticipation 75
Brace yourself for the ultimate open-world survival craft experience. Welcome to a world shattered by the relentless fury of the most colossal hurricane in history. Explore and gather resources for survival and crafting. Fight off aggressive wildlife and scavengers. Play story mode or survival mode
- as Steam has it
ScavlandAnticipation 99
Scavland is a hardcore Top-Down Pixel Art survival RPG set in a Post-Apocalyptic Soviet world. Scavenge the wastes and forgotten bunkers, take dangerous jobs, build your reputation, and customize your arsenal as you fight to survive mutants, hostile survivors, radiation, and the deadly Mist.
- as Steam has it
THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World SurvivalAnticipation 83
Explore a dangerous open world, loot abandoned places, build your shelter, produce food, and manage your resources. Survive alone or in co-op against zombies, hostile humans, and the growing dangers that come with the fog.
- as Steam has it
CONTROL ResonantAnticipation 95
Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in this thrilling action-adventure RPG. Unleash the extraordinary powers of Dylan Faden as he fights for his humanity and our survival against a reality-bending cosmic threat.
Matched on store genre and description rather than player tags, because unreleased games have none. That will occasionally pull in a game that mentions the subject without being about it.
Already out
Our ranked list of survival games you can play now is computed from player sentiment, critic aggregates and reach, which is the evidence these upcoming titles do not have yet.
Common questions
What upcoming survival games are coming out next?
Until North Ends is the next one with a firm date, 30 August 2026 as its Steam listing has it. 15 of the 15 on this page carry a real date; the rest give a window only.
How are these survival games chosen?
An unreleased game has no player tags, because nobody has played it. So these are matched on the store genres and description text rather than on the tags behind our released survival games pages. That is a weaker match: a description mentioning the subject is not the same evidence as thousands of players tagging a game with it.
Why is there no ranking here?
Because there is nothing to rank on. The GamingPickz Score is computed from player sentiment, critic aggregates and reach, none of which exist before a game is released. Ordering these by anticipation would be an opinion dressed as a measurement, so they are ordered by date instead.