Choose How To Survive: Third Person Standalone
Choose How To Survive: Third Person Standalone if it's currently about 33% cheaper on the Steam Store. How To Survive: Third Person Standalone launched in 2015.
How To Survive: Third Person Standalone vs How to Survive 2
How To Survive: Third Person Standalone and How to Survive 2 both land in Action, Adventure, RPG on Steam, which is why they keep getting compared. The comparison below is built from each game's Steam metadata — release year, genres, categories, Steam Deck status, price, and review score — refreshed daily by imho.run's scraper. Headline differences: Both share Action, Adventure, RPG on Steam. How To Survive: Third Person Standalone (2015) is 1 year older than How to Survive 2 (2016). How to Survive 2 scores higher on Steam reviews (66.1% positive) than How To Survive: Third Person Standalone (52.5% positive). No login or purchase needed — scroll for the full table, the verdict FAQ, and links to ranked similar games for both titles.
Which should you pick?
Choose How to Survive 2
Choose How to Survive 2 if you want the Multi-player, Online PvP, and Shared/Split Screen PvP side of the pairing. On Steam, it carries the stronger Steam consensus at 66.1% positive across 1,936 reviews.
Both How To Survive: Third Person Standalone and How to Survive 2 sit in Action, Adventure, and RPG on Steam and both list Steam Leaderboards, so either pick lands in the same broad neighborhood. Use the side-by-side table for the feature view, or follow the "Games like" links below to see ranked alternatives for either title.
Side-by-side comparison
 How To Survive: Third Person Standalone |  How to Survive 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2015 | 2016 |
| Genres | Action, Adventure, RPG | Action, Adventure, RPG |
| Platforms | Windows | Windows |
| Steam Deck | Deck Playable | Deck Playable |
| Price | 9.99 USD | 14.99 USD |
| Steam reviews | 52.5% positive (379 reviews) | 66.1% positive (1,936 reviews) |
| Multiplayer | Single-player only | Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op |
| Developers | Eko Software | Eko Software |
Side by side
- Both share Action, Adventure, RPG on Steam.
- How To Survive: Third Person Standalone (2015) is 1 year older than How to Survive 2 (2016).
- How to Survive 2 scores higher on Steam reviews (66.1% positive) than How To Survive: Third Person Standalone (52.5% positive).
- How To Survive: Third Person Standalone is currently ~33% cheaper on Steam than How to Survive 2 (9.99 USD vs. 14.99 USD).
- How to Survive 2 has co-op; How To Survive: Third Person Standalone does not.
- Both are Deck Playable.
How To Survive: Third Person Standalone vs How to Survive 2 — FAQ
- Which is better, How To Survive: Third Person Standalone or How to Survive 2?
- On Steam reviews How to Survive 2 scores higher (66.1% positive) than How To Survive: Third Person Standalone (52.5% positive). Both have enough reviews to trust the signal, so for players using reviews alone, How to Survive 2 is the safer pick. Genre fit still matters — check the side-by-side table for the categories each game lands in.
- Should I play How To Survive: Third Person Standalone or How to Survive 2 first?
- If you want chronology, How To Survive: Third Person Standalone (2015) came out before How to Survive 2 (2016). If neither is a sequel to the other, order doesn't really matter — start with whichever fits your current mood, since both share enough on Steam to make either a reasonable opener.
- Are How To Survive: Third Person Standalone and How to Survive 2 similar?
- They overlap on Action, Adventure, RPG on Steam, so the catalogue groups them together — but "similar" depends on the specific mechanics. Use the genre + category rows above to decide whether the overlap matches what drew you to the one you've already played.
- Does How To Survive: Third Person Standalone have multiplayer like How to Survive 2?
- No. How to Survive 2 supports multiplayer on Steam (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op), while How To Survive: Third Person Standalone is listed as single-player only.