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Survivalist
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“This game is honestly very good. You're easily getting a game worth more than the $5 you're paying for it. What I like about this game is being able to individually control all of your people, giving them jobs, equipping them, etc.. Your man power actually matters in this game…”
— a player, Steam review · 85 hrs played“The game offers pretty much all it advertised, something I thought rather rare for a 5 € game. You're pretty much thrown into the post-apocalyptic world unawares, unequipped, climbing out of your Vault (where have I seen this before?) and completely unprepared for the horrors…”
— a player, Steam review · 36 hrs played“The game has all the content to be a great survival game - scavenging, base constructing, farming, item crafting, diplomacy, trading... unfortunately it suffers from a terrible lack of balance that completely breaks realism. First, the zombies aren't actually 'fast zombies',…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Czech translation in publicbeta!
Hey everyone, new patch! Jiří Linhart who did the Czech translation for Survivalist: Invisible Strain has now done Survivalist too! publicbeta branch for a little while before moving to the main branc
Steam Deck Verified & Brazilian Portuguese
Hello, it's Survivalist patch time! As mentioned last month , Valve's testing team delved deeply enough into their back catalog to give Survivalist a yellow Playable tick for Steam Deck - meaning they
Steam Deck Playable rating + Survivalist: Invisible Strain launch!
Hello, not a patch but a few updates: Valve have given Survivalist a Playable rating on Steam Deck! Evidently their testing team have been working through their massive back catalog and they've now re
New patch with Brazilian Portuguese updates (v77)
Hello, I've released a small patch with improvements for the Brazilian Portuguese translation. Arthur the translator has been diligently playtesting it and making corrections over the last couple of m
Brazilian Portuguese Added
Well, you wait years for an update and then two come along at once. The game now has a Brazilian Portuguese translation! Many thanks to the translator, Arthur 'Loki' Nunes for producing what looks lik
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Survival · Zombies · RPG · Open World · Action · Strategy · Base-Building · Adventure · Post-apocalyptic · Simulation · Multiplayer · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, Hungarian, Spanish - Spain, French, Russian, German, Italian, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 39 |
| Official site | https://www.ginormocorp.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: XP Service Pack 3 Processor: Dual Core Processor Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX10-capable graphics card DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 160 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible Additional Notes: Uses the XNA Framework HiDef profile, which means it will run on any graphics card that is compatible with DirectX 10 or higher, and some but not all DirectX 9c ones. PLEASE NOTE: having a version of DirectX installed on your PC is not the same thing as having a graphics card that supports it! If in doubt play the demo.