Survival games are tough to get right — creators have to make resources accessible, but not too accessible, incorporate originality in a seemingly exhausted genre, and figure out a reasonable endgame. When done correctly, survival games can be engaging and entertaining for hours at a time.

In the last decade, the survival genre has grown to be about more than just horror, and thus has grown in popularity. The gaming world now has a few shining examples of great survival games like No Man’s Sky, Don’t Starve, and, of course, the legendary Minecraft. But how about the games that didn’t fare so well? Let’s look back at 10 of the worst survival games of the 2010s.

10 Resident Evil 6 (Metascore: 60)

Capcom released Resident Evil 6 for all platforms in 2012. Players control characters in three different campaigns that eventually overlap. Players face a global, biological terrorist threat and must save the public from a resulting zombie outbreak.

Resident Evil 6 was definitely not the series’ most successful installment. Many critics argued that the campaigns were weak overall, and the handful of new features that Capcom introduced actually made the game worse. Thankfully, though, producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi vowed to use the negative feedback from Resident Evil 6 to avoid mistakes in the following Resident Evil 2 remake, according to GameRant.

9 Rise of Nightmares (Metascore: 54)

Rise of Nightmares, developed and published by Sega in 2011, was the first M-rated game to be released on the Kinect for Xbox 360. The game follows a group of prisoners who attempt to escape their cell, but in doing so release some terrifying, nightmarish (duh) creatures.

Among a slew of family-friendly Kinect games, Microsoft hoped that Rise of Nightmares would fare well. Overall, the game received mixed reviews, with many critics noting that the controls were awkward while the plot drew from overused video game tropes.

8 Saw II: Flesh & Blood (Metascore: 47)

Saw II was better off as just a movie. Flesh & Blood is set between the first and second Saw movies, just like the first Saw game. Konami published Saw II: Flesh & Blood in 2010 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game follows David Tapp’s son, Michael, as he searches for the truth about David’s death and ultimately becomes another one of Jigsaw’s targets.

Saw II: Flesh & Blood received overwhelmingly unfavorable reviews, especially compared to the original video game. Many critics argued that, rather than providing a satisfying follow-up to Saw, the sequel’s repetition and terrible combat bring only disappointment.

7 Left Alive (Metascore: 37)

Left Alive was developed by Ilinx and published by Square Enix in March 2019 for PC and PlayStation 4. This stealth survival game is set in the Front Mission universe and primarily involves sneaking through a mech-filled field. After the Republic of Ruthenia is attacked by the Republic of Garmoniya, the Ruthenian army is forced to leave their city. Anyone left behind must fend for themselves on foot.

Left Alive ranked at No. 2 on Metacritic’s list of the 10 worst games of 2019 and was criticized largely for its poorly-executed combat.

6 7 Days to Die (Metascore: 35)

7 Days to Die was released by The Fun Pimps on PC in 2013, and on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One two years later. This open-world survival horror takes place after a fictional World War III nuclear bomb destroys most of the world except for a few odd areas, such as a city in Arizona. As the name suggests, players have a week to prepare themselves for a mass of zombies to attack their current location.

The Xbox One version of 7 Days to Die received the brunt of negative reviews for poor functionality and outdated graphics. The game fared a bit better on PC, having been named on a list of the top 100 best-selling games on Steam in 2017.

5 Escape Dead Island (Metascore: 35)

Deep Silver’s Escape Dead Island is a 2014 spin-off of the 2011 action-adventure, survival horror RPG Dead Island. The PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 title follows adventurer Cliff Calo, who takes to the sea to investigate a mysteriously abandoned island. Soon, he finds himself in the middle of a horrifying zombie outbreak.

Escape Dead Island garnered far worse reviews than its original counterpart (though the original game didn’t exactly receive overwhelmingly positive feedback either). It was said to have poor structure and little replay value.

4 Agony (Metascore: 34)

Madmind Studio released Agony, an incredibly dark, adults-only, fantasy survival horror game, in 2018 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It was released on Nintendo Switch one year later. The game follows a lost soul in Hell who has lost all memories of his past life. As he attempts to escape Hell and reclaim his life, he discovers an ability to control demons, which is his ticket to survival.

Agony is exactly what people seem to feel when they play this glorified Dante’s Inferno. For the most part, the game’s negative reception centers around its alleged anti-women agenda and overuse of gory violence. On top of that, Agony is said to include a poorly-thought-out plot and boring gameplay.

3 DayZ (Metascore: 31)

DayZ, by Bohemia Interactive, was in an early access period on Windows for five years before it was officially released in December 2018. One year later, it came to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game is set in a plague-ridden, fictional Russian state and the goal is to stay healthy (and alive) among thousands of infected citizens.

DayZis notorious for its radically mixed reviews. The game was called “catastrophic” and “dull” by critics, yet won Golden Joystick Awards for Best Indie Game and Best Original Game in 2014. Bohemia Interactive released an update back in August to fix some of players’ biggest complaints, but critics still seem to be set in their opinions.

2 Infestation: Survival Stories (Metascore: 20)

Infestation: Survivor Stories, known as War Z before the name was changed due to trademark issues, was released in 2012 for PC. This open-world zombie survival offered quite a few gameplay options — there were first- and third-person shooting perspectives as well as both PvP (player versus player) and PvE (player versus environment) battles. The premise was as simple as it could be: survive the zombie apocalypse as long as possible.

Infestation: Survivor Stories had a short life. The servers were taken offline in 2016, just four years after its initial release. Sales-wise, the game actually did really well, having sold over 2.8 million copies. Unfortunately, though, the game’s developers (OP Productions) were surrounded by controversy, which caused the game itself to suffer.

1 Alone in the Dark: Illumination (Metascore: 16)

Alone in the Dark: Illumination is a third-person-shooter survival released in 2015 for PC. The game is set in an abandoned town in Virginia, occupied only by strange, Demogorgon-like creatures. Each level is filled with randomly generated obstacles and enemies, which players must defeat to find a safety vault at the end.

This sixth and final installment of Atari’s Alone in the Dark survival horror series received the worst reviews of them all since the original was released in 1992, with most critics describing it as boring and buggy. Truthfully, the series probably could’ve ended after one or two games and saved Atari from all that negative reception.

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