We all know of REAL survival games, Dwarf Fortres is in its core a survival game, Schiffbruch is what started it all, Stranded 2 is the Nethack of survival games, everything in that gengre is based upon this game wich is based upon Schiffbruch. We know of minecraft, but that is more creative than survival, pussies and their antigrief.. There are a few out there like Hazordhu and other survival BYOND's and there are more. But most of theese games are nothing but getting logs and building houses of them, that is shit. Survival Horror isntreally survival as its all about shooting braindead people wich is retarded and overdone. What would be a real survival game, would be were you actually survive in actual conditions, not some crappy island or LOL CITEH WIT ZOMBEH GOASTZ. Like being a soldier trapped behind enemy lines, many games are like that but lack the survival aspect, its mostly about sneaking around, or being caught in a nuclear attack, FO:NV ftw ftw ftw! Sea survival, invasion survival, we need more non stranded and ZOMBEH GHOAST games.
Sometimes, unintentionally, games become survival games, many times i have miscalculated an orbit in Orbiter, and then racing towards time to save my crew's life, or when i fail at that landing and cause some kind of malfunction in my vessel making me have to make oxygen, water and food supplies, then set up a base and fly another ship there to rescue them. In Ace of Spades, your little outpost could be searched by the enemy, and you would have to hide. Minecraft isnt really survival, but this kind of thing also happens there, stuck in a desert with no wood and most of your pals being below 3 hearts of HP.
REAL survival games:
Dwarf Fortress
Fallout: New Vegas downgraded to "Survival" game per request.
"Survival" games:
Stranded series
Schiffbruch
Gmstranded
Minecraft *shudders
Shores of Hazeron
Various BYOND games
Fallout: New Vegas, they got a point here, its just as shit as all the others.
Unintentional survival games:
Orbiter
Ace of Spades