The Best Upcoming Survival Games of 2022 and Beyond

Players who love survival, crafting, and base-building elements will meet many new games in the coming days. We have compiled the best upcoming survival games that fans of the genre are eagerly waiting for. Here are the upcoming survival games that attract attention with their different mechanics and stories. 

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Upcoming Survival Games

Retreat to Enen

Release Date: August 5, 2022

A therapeutic survival game, Retreat to Enen invites players to explore, craft, hunt and find their place in the world. The Head West team is sitting in the developer seat of the game, which is expected to be released on August 5, 2022.

Players who like creation mechanics more than action can give Retreat to Enen a chance.

The Day Before

Release Date: March 1, 2023

The Day Before, which was announced to be released on March 1, 2023, will offer extensive multiplayer gameplay unlike other games on our list. The production in the MMO genre is also the scene of chaos in a post-apocalyptic USA, where the weapons never stop. Players will collect equipment to survive, pit against each other for resources, or work together to survive.

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Sons of the Forest

Forest, one of the most popular games in the survival genre, returns with its second game. This survival game, which will bring fear to the top, will test our patience on an island of all kinds of strangeness and terrible mysteries. Sons of the Forest will be with us in the last quarter of 2022.

Release Date: October 2022

Frostpunk 2

Release Date: To be announced

Frostpunk by 11bit Studios took strategy lovers to a frozen world and tasked them with establishing a post-apocalyptic colony. The sequel of Frostpunk, which received a passing grade from the players, will have much more challenging mechanics. Players will face the brutal cold and make critical decisions to keep the colony alive.

Winter Survival

Release Date: October 27, 2022

Winter Survival, which will be released on October 27, 2022, invites players who spent tens of hours in The Long Dark to a much more challenging winter adventure. Winter Survival, which draws our attention with its realistic elements and its structure that makes the player feel cold to the marrow, is being developed by DRAGO Entertainment.

Occupy Mars: The Game

Release Date: 2022

Offering a free experience with the introductory chapter called Occupy Mars: Prologue, Pyramid Games promises a complete survival adventure with Occupy Mars: The Game, which is expected to be released this year. The company, which released a trial version before releasing the full version, will task players with objectives such as survival on Mars, base building and resource gathering with Occupy Mars: The Game.

Ixion

Release Date: 2022

Bulwark Studios, which previously developed the turn-based strategy game Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus, has rolled up its sleeves again. With Ixion, players will take a leap into space and into the future. Blending strategy and survival components, Ixion will debut in 2022. In the game, where the players will undertake the search for a new home for humanity, the sole aim will be to keep the last members of the race alive.

ARK 2

Release Date: 2023

Developed by Studio Wildcard, ARK will greatly expand the dinosaur-filled world offered by the first game, Survival Evolved. The production, which invites the actors to a new generation survival experience, also includes the famous actor Vin Diesel.

Diesel will give life to a hero named Santiago and will face them in adventures that the player will embark on.