Presenting The Escapist’s definitive list of the best survival games to play in 2026 across all platforms and genres.

In Episode 138, Part 2 of ARK Survival Evolved, the quest to craft the strongest Wyverns continues! 🦖💥 Watch as I push the limits of breeding, leveling, and crafting to create the ultimate Wyverns ...

In Episode 138, Part 3 of ARK Survival Evolved, the journey to craft the strongest Wyverns reaches its thrilling conclusion! 🦖🔥 Watch as I finalize the breeding, max out stats, and prepare these ...

Stranded on a pixelated island? Crawling through a desolate wasteland? Whether in closed quarters or open-world survival games on PC, they offer a thrilling buffet of calamity. From battling the ...

Valheim 1 — 10 Open-world Viking survival Online via private/public servers High – shared building, boss fights, exploration Dune: Awakening 1 — 4 MMO open-world survival in the Dune universe Online ...

Survival games don’t stick to just staying alive anymore. Currently, it’s all about whole experiences packed with exploration, building cool stuff, and most times, chaos. In 2025, the genre is ...

Ark: Survival Evolved left early access on August 27, 2017. That's nearly 70,000 hours ago… which means if a player has logged 35,202 hours in Ark, they've essentially been playing the dino-survival ...

ARK: Survival Evolved first landed on Steam’s Early Access on June 2, 2015. What began as an indie dinosaur survival sandbox game has since been downloaded tens of millions of times, seen a steady ...

TL;DR: ARK: Survival Ascended faces controversy for enabling FSR frame generation by default without the player even realizing this has happened, as there's no option to turn it off in the graphics ...

Studio Wildcard is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of ARK: Survival Evolved with a new update, a move to an engine, and a special event. First off, the game has been updated with the Unreal Engine ...