Survival games on Steam: market size, sales and what works

51 games on Steam carry the Survival tag as one of their main tags. The median one has 193,153 reviews and 98% pass 1,000.

Games released per year

2 2016
2 2017
11 2018
4 2019
4 2020
2 2021
0 2022
3 2023
4 2024
4 2025
8 2026

2026 is the year so far.

What games make

Percentile	Reviews	Estimated owners
Median game	193,153	about 5.7M
Top 25%	434,134	about 10.8M
Top 10%	940,704	about 19.5M

94% of games get over 50 reviews and over 70% positive. Owners are modeled from review counts, see how the estimates work.

Pricing

Median paid price $28.49

Free 8%
Under $5 6%
$5 to $15 18%
$15 to $30 40%
$30 to $60 28%
$60 and up 0%

Most reviewed Survival releases of the last 24 months

Upcoming Survival games 0 on Steam

Astral Hunter: Homebound Nov 13, 2026
Orbital Drift 2027
Railborn 2027
Annihilation Coming soon
Astro World Coming soon
Be the Ruler: Britannia To be announced
Crystal Venture Coming soon
Dark Dimensions: Chasing Legends Coming soon
Deadly Survival To be announced
Dead of Day To be announced
DEEP SIX Coming soon
Freelancer Simulator Coming soon

Tags these games also carry

Multiplayer 31
Action 28
Open World 24
Co-op 23
Singleplayer 23
Strategy 19
Online Co-Op 18
Adventure 16
First-Person 15
Sandbox 15

What good store pages do

Medians across the 50 most reviewed Survival games.

Screenshots: 13.5
Trailers: 3
Description length: 5,176 characters

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