The realistic ceiling for Survival games
Two honest views of what Survival games do on Steam: the whole market from a systematic sample, and the games gathered here. Kept separate on purpose.
The Survival games gathered on wishvane
Across the 959 Survival games compared here, the middle one runs ≈ 34k–50k copies (est.), with Terraria the biggest comparable game at ≈ 97.9M–159.1M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than the market figures above.
- The Survival games gathered here span 2007 to 2026, and 246 of the 959 of them shipped in the last two years.
- The biggest Survival games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Open World Survival Craft and Open World.
- Across the Survival games gathered here the median price is $11.99, and the biggest charge more, around $20.
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
- Terraria
- Rust
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Dead by Daylight
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- Among Us
- The Forest
- Unturned
- Don't Starve Together
- Valheim
- Dying Light
- Palworld
- Project Zomboid
- DayZ
- No Man's Sky
- 7 Days to Die
- Subnautica
- Raft
- Sons Of The Forest
- Resident Evil 4
- RimWorld
- Factorio
- Z1 Battle Royale
- Oxygen Not Included
- Fallout 76
- ASTRONEER
- Outlast
- Stumble Guys
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- Frostpunk
- V Rising
- Space Engineers
- SCUM
- The Long Dark
- Starbound
- Scrap Mechanic
- The Isle
- Brotato
- Conan Exiles Enhanced
- My Summer Car
- Days Gone
- ARK: Survival Ascended
- Kenshi
- Don't Starve
- Subnautica: Below Zero
- Enshrouded
- Green Hell
- Ring of Elysium
- This War of Mine
- Grounded
- Mad Max
- Barotrauma
- Fallout Shelter
- Friday the 13th: The Game
- Just Survive
- No More Room in Hell
- The Planet Crafter
- Eternal Return
- State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
and 899 more
Building a Survival game? This genre already ran your experiment. Add the games yours will be compared to and see what's realistic, before you spend months on it.