PC Gaming Weekly: the magic of the $398 million survival game market

Wonder why you’ve seen so many survival games on Steam over the past few years? Two of the top 20 trending games on SteamSpy — The Long Dark and Citadel: Forged with Fire — are survival games, and Rust and Ark: Survival Evolved are in the top 20 in terms of playtime.

Hundreds of thousands of people are playing, streaming, and watching these games. And it’s helped survival and horror games grow to a near $400 million sector for the first six months of 2017 (with January’s Resident Evil 7 leading), the market research firm SuperData estimates.