10 Best Survival Games on Xbox Game Pass (2024)

Are you looking to knuckle in on all the best survival games on Xbox Game Pass this month? If so, then be sure to read on for a few quick recommendations. Here are, in our option, ten of the best titles that currently make up the breadth of the library.

10. Conan Exiles

Conan Exiles is a survival game in the rough open world. You start by gathering stuff like wood, stone, and food to keep yourself alive. More than this, you can craft tools, weapons, and shelters to protect yourself from bad people. However, you need to be aware of wild animals and enemies because they're all over. In addition, keeping track of your hunger, thirst, and health will help you survive. Exploration of the world allows finding materials and secret spots. Eventually, you can fight on your own or team up with others to survive.

9. Minecraft

Minecraft is basically a survival game where you gather resources, build shelters, and create tools. You get to venture into this enormous open world full of forests, caves, and mountains. You spend the day gathering wood, stone, and food for the night. And at night, it's zombies and skeletons who come out, so it gets a little tricky as far as survival is concerned. Players also dig deep down to find rare things like iron and diamonds. The game manages to encourage creativity and teamwork in exploring while surviving the challenges around you.

8. No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky is a great massive space survival game in which a player explores planets. You gather resources to survive, upgrade your tools, and repair your spaceship. The game lets you travel between planets and discover alien creatures and plants. Survival becomes tougher with dangerous weather as well as hazardous environments. The game allows you to craft items, mine materials, and fight hostile creatures. You can also play alone or along friends in multiplayer mode.

7. Brotato

Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite game that runs fast, where the player plays as a potato and has access to multiple weapons. All of the weapons can fire automatically, and the task is to survive waves of enemies. And between waves, you can choose upgrades or buy new weapons to improve your chances. The waves get harder, so it constantly requires players to be alert and make sound decisions. The game is simplistically exciting yet filled with action and focuses on strategic survival.

6. Palworld

Palworld is a pretty interesting genre mashup between Pokémon-like creature collecting and survival gameplay. Here you explore the big world of creatures called Pals, catch them, tame them, and have them help with farming, or crafting or fighting against enemies. Pals can collect resources, build shelters, and get through hard times of hunger or storms. Moreover, you explore new locations, search for rare Pals, and gather material to build tools and armaments. So, the game is all about working with your Pals to survive and explore.

5. Still Wakes the Deep

In Still Wakes the Deep, you are basically an oil rig worker whose rig collapses during a disaster. The whole place then crumbles around you and you must escape while being pursued by this rather terrifying enemy. All the exits are blocked, and no phone is available to call for help, so you really have to depend on your skills to get out of this situation alive. You will be running, climbing, and swimming through flooded areas to get out. You gotta sneak around and keep the enemy distracted if you are to survive this kind of risky scenario. Every little thing you do counts for your survival.

4. Generation Zero

Generation Zero is a survival game that's kind of like stuck in this world that's taken over by deadly machines. You need to roam, grab all the resources you can, and use them to make weapons and supplies. You take on those robotic enemies with some tactical combat and set traps to outsmart them. The game lets you team up with your friends in multiplayer mode so you guys can tackle missions together. Survival in this game would require proper planning, scavenging, and teaming up to take down the dangerous enemies.

3. Rise of the Tomb Raider

Rise of the Tomb Raider is an action-survival game where players play Lara Croft. She scavenges through perilous environment and collect resources and materials to craft weapons and tools. Players hunt animals, gather materials, and build gear to survive harsh conditions. Combat is with enemies by using bows, guns, and stealth tactics. Players climb, swim, and explore ruins to complete objectives. The gameplay gives an experience of survival mechanics blended together with fast action.

2. Grounded

Ever thought what it would be like to be the size of an insect? Grounded lets you feel everything just like that. The game takes place in a backyard where you have to survive against huge bugs and other dangers. You collect all the available stuff, making tools, weapons, and building shelters to keep you safe. In this game, checking out your surroundings is very crucial for finding food, water, and other materials that will help you survive. You can also team up with friends to work together and fight off insect threats.

1. Core Keeper

Core Keeper is a sandbox game in which you explore an incredibly huge underground world full of secrets. The game features mining, relic collecting, crafting tools or weapons to make it possible to survive, building bases, growing food, and farming so you stay alive. During your playthrough in this game, you will encounter various terrible creatures and super powerful Titans. You can play solo or grab some friends to check out different spots and find hidden treasures together. On the whole, this game weaves mining, crafting, and fighting together into an exciting adventure.

So, what’s your take? Will you be picking up any of the above ten titles on Xbox Game Pass this month? Let us know your thoughts over on our socials here.