Originally posted by Faceplant8:

I would love to see a link to a definition of "survival game" that doesn't encompass Valheim and/or a list of survival games that doesn't include Valheim, or at least Minecraft, which is clearly has a similar game play loop.

Who would have the authority to establish this definition/list?

Is Far Cry a survival game? What about The Witcher? You craft stuff, level up your skills and weapons, walk around an open world and you try not to die. I never see them qualified as "survival games" though.

Some definitions include the concepts of "open world" and "crafting" and yet "Oregon Trail" is often referred to as one of the 1st survival games.

I gave my definition, everybody is free to think what they want.