Near-Perfect Survival Games You Forgot Exist

Over the last decade, survival games have exploded in popularity, to the point that the genre is arguably overexposed nowadays. Each month seems to coincide with the release of a couple of open-world survival games, most of which enter Steam Early Access and seem happy to never leave. Due to the sheer volume of competition and a few perennial titles that hog the spotlight, the industry moves on from new games pretty quickly, causing once-highly anticipated releases to be wiped from our collective memories.