Survival Game Name Generator

Titles for survival games, servers and mod packs

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Generate survival game names that sound like real titles: frozen wildernesses, island castaways, zombie outbreaks, post-nuclear wastelands, deep-sea and offworld colonies. Useful for indie game projects, game jams, custom servers, mod packs and survival-themed stories.

About survival game names

Survival game titles follow a few recognizable patterns because the genre sells a feeling before it sells a story. The most durable names are single blunt nouns that describe the material you will be fighting with or against: Rust, Raft, Grounded, Valheim, The Forest. A one-word title works best when the word is physical and slightly hostile, which is why Ashfall, Permafrost or Saltmarsh land while something abstract like Destiny does not. The second pattern is the place-name: a coast, valley, station or colony that the whole game takes place in, often with a short subtitle added for sequels and expansions.

The sub-genre changes the vocabulary. Cold-weather survival pulls from ice and exposure (whiteout, crevasse, thirty below). Island and ocean games use wreck, reef, flotsam and tide. Outbreak games borrow medical and quarantine language, wasteland games borrow radiation and salvage, and space survival leans on airlocks, oxygen and landfall. Sentence titles like Don't Go Out at Night or Nothing Grows Here read as horror-tinged and suit smaller, story-driven projects.

The names below span all of those styles. Use the short ones as working titles for a game, jam entry or Steam page, the place-names for custom servers and persistent worlds, and the subtitled forms when you need a season, DLC or mod pack name.

How to choose survival game names

  • Pick a title that names a physical threat or resource (frost, salt, rot, ash) rather than an emotion; survival players want to know what they will be up against.
  • Check the name on Steam and itch.io before committing; single common words are often taken, so a two-word variant like Cinder Coast is safer than Cinder.
  • For a server or season, keep the base game's title and add a colon subtitle (Harrow Valley: The Long Night) so players recognise it instantly.
  • Sentence titles work for narrative or horror survival but get long in a logo; keep them to five words or fewer.
  • Say the name with 'Let's play' in front of it; if it sounds natural in a video title, it will work as a game name.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a good survival game name?

Short, concrete and a little hostile. The best survival titles name a material, a place or a condition the player has to endure, such as frost, salt, a coast or a quarantine, and avoid vague fantasy words. One or two words is ideal for a logo and a Steam capsule.

Can I use these names for a game I plan to sell?

Yes, they are original and free to use, but titles cannot be reserved here. Search Steam, itch.io, app stores and a trademark database before you launch, because short common words are frequently taken by existing games.

Are these names useful for a Rust, DayZ or Ark server?

Very. The place-style names like Harrow Valley, Outpost Kestrel or Pale Harbor make natural server and map names, and the subtitled forms work for wipes, seasons and events.

How do I name a survival game sequel or expansion?

Keep the original title and add a short subtitle that signals the new setting or threat, for example Ashfall: Second Winter or Driftwood: Open Waters. Players recognise the brand and the subtitle tells them what changed.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 16 names

  • Adrift: Saltwater Sky
  • After the Thaw
  • After Zero Hour
  • Airlock
  • Alien Winter
  • Alkali Flats
  • Ash Borough
  • Ash Tithe
  • Ashcloud
  • Ashen Meridian
  • Ashfall
  • Ashfall: Second Winter
  • Ashveil
  • Ashwick
  • Atoll
  • Aurora Station

B: 36 names

  • Backcountry
  • Barnacle Bay
  • Barnwood
  • Barrowlands
  • Beached
  • Bear Country
  • Before the Frost Comes
  • Below the Surface
  • Beneath the Permafrost
  • Beyond Rescue
  • Beyond the Treeline
  • Biodome
  • Birchwood Winter
  • Blackwater Jungle
  • Blackwater Reach
  • Bleak Harvest
  • Bleakmoor
  • Blighted Hollow
  • Blister Coast
  • Bloodmoon Harvest
  • Bog Iron
  • Boil the Water
  • Bone Orchard
  • Bonefire
  • Bonewater Crossing
  • Brackish
  • Briarlands
  • Brick & Bone
  • Brimstone Valley
  • Brine & Bone
  • Brinefall
  • Bunker 19
  • Bunker Cinder
  • Burn the Dead
  • Burrow
  • Burrowlands

C: 37 names

  • Cactus Moon
  • Cairn
  • Camp Deadwood
  • Camp Hollow Pine
  • Camp Saltgrass
  • Canyon Country
  • Caribou Moon
  • Carrion Moon
  • Castaway: Gull Rock
  • Castaway: Kelp Bay
  • Cinder Coast
  • Cinder Coast: Stormfront
  • Cinder Cone
  • Cinderwake
  • Clan of the Ash Wolf
  • Cobalt Winter
  • Cold Ashes Station
  • Cold Iron Coast
  • Cold Moon Colony
  • Cold Snap
  • Coldforge
  • Coldharbour Drift
  • Colony 7
  • Colony Ashwood
  • Colony Meridian
  • Colony Tidewater
  • Concrete Winter
  • Contagion Valley
  • Coral Graveyard
  • Crag & Hollow
  • Crash Site Kilo
  • Crawlspace
  • Crevasse
  • Crowfeast
  • Cryosleep
  • Crypt Cold
  • Cursed Marsh

D: 34 names

  • Dark Side
  • Day 400
  • Day Thirty-One
  • Dead Air
  • Dead City
  • Dead Horizon
  • Dead Planet
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Dead Reef Desert
  • Dead Weight
  • Dead Zone Delta
  • Deadfall
  • Deadhands
  • Deadlight
  • Deadwood Creek
  • Deep Frost Protocol
  • Deep Woods
  • Deepwater Ridge
  • Derelict Sky
  • Dig In
  • Don't Go Out at Night
  • Dosimeter
  • Driftline
  • Driftwood
  • Driftwood: Open Waters
  • Dry Gulch
  • Dry Season
  • Dunewalker
  • Dungeon Depths
  • Duskmire
  • Duskwood
  • Dust and Daylight
  • Dust Bowl
  • Dusthaven

E: 11 names

  • Eat or Be Eaten
  • Eight Days of Ash
  • Eighteen Months
  • Elk Moon
  • Ember Rationing
  • Embertide
  • Embertide: Red Sky
  • Empty Streets
  • Exodus: Harrow Valley
  • Exoplanet Fallow
  • Exposure

F: 28 names

  • Fallow
  • Famine
  • Far Bank
  • Fathomfall
  • Fenceline
  • Fenwater
  • Fever Season
  • Firebreak
  • Firemaker
  • First Frost
  • Flint & Fire
  • Flotsam
  • Fog of the Hollow
  • Fogbound
  • Fogmarch
  • Forage
  • Freightline
  • Frontier: Blackwater
  • Frontier: Frostbite Pass
  • Frostbound
  • Frostbound: Crevasse
  • Frostburn
  • Frostfire Hollow
  • Frostvik
  • Frostwake
  • Frozen Wake
  • Fumarole
  • Fungal Bloom

G: 14 names

  • Ghost Town Protocol
  • Glacier's Edge
  • Glow Country
  • Gravel & Bone
  • Gravel Sky
  • Gravewalkers
  • Graveyard Orbit
  • Greenhell Creek
  • Greenrot
  • Greenrot: Canopy
  • Greyfall Harbor
  • Grid Down
  • Grimhollow
  • Ground Zero Plus One

H: 29 names

  • Hardpan
  • Harrow Valley
  • Harrow Valley: The Long Night
  • Harvest Moon Outbreak
  • Hayloft Winter
  • Hearthfire
  • Hearthless
  • Heatstroke
  • Hexfall
  • Hibernal
  • High Country
  • High-Rise Hollow
  • Hoarfrost
  • Hold Fast
  • Hold the Line at Hollow Creek
  • Hollow Earth
  • Hollow Earth: Descent
  • Hollow Ration
  • Hollowed
  • Homestead: Bitter Creek
  • Homestead: Pine Hollow
  • Hotzone
  • Hour Seven
  • Hull Breach
  • Hunger Moon
  • Hungerwood
  • Hunter's Dawn
  • Huntress Moon
  • Husks

I: 10 names

  • Ice Age Dawn
  • Ice Station Vanta
  • Icebound Strait
  • Icebreaker
  • Icefield
  • Infected Harbor
  • Ironhusk
  • Ironroot
  • Ironwinter
  • Ironwood Saga

J: 1 name

  • Jarl's Bane

K: 3 names

  • Keep Breathing
  • Kelpwood
  • Kindling

L: 21 names

  • Landfall
  • Lantern Winter
  • Last Ember Station
  • Last Harvest
  • Last Light on Ember Bay
  • Last Train Out
  • Lava Tube
  • Lead Lining
  • Lean Season
  • Leechwater
  • Leviathan Shoals
  • Lifeboat
  • Lifeline
  • Lights Out
  • Lockdown: Red District
  • Longhouse
  • Lost Coast
  • Lost Probe
  • Lost Trail
  • Low Sun Country
  • Lowtide

M: 11 names

  • Mammoth Steppe
  • Marooned
  • Marooned: Black Sand
  • Marrow
  • Methane Sea
  • Metro Zero
  • Monsoon Coast
  • Moss & Marrow
  • Moss Kingdom
  • Mudlark
  • Mudwater

N: 14 names

  • Netherbog
  • Nettle Season
  • Night of the Hungry
  • Nightcall
  • Nightfall Colony
  • Nightsoil
  • Nine Below Zero
  • Ninefingers Gulch
  • Ninety Days
  • No Man's Shore
  • No Signal
  • Nothing Grows Here
  • Nuclear Spring
  • Nunatak

O: 13 names

  • Off the Grid
  • Offworld
  • Open Water
  • Operation Driftwood
  • Operation Tinderbox
  • Orbit Decay
  • Ossuary
  • Outbreak: Carrion Fields
  • Outbreak: Day One
  • Outpost Brine
  • Outpost Kestrel
  • Outpost Kestrel: Blackout
  • Oxygen Debt

P: 17 names

  • Pale Harbor
  • Pale Harbor: Quarantine
  • Pangaea
  • Patient Zero Coast
  • Peatfire
  • Permafrost
  • Polar Night
  • Predator Valley
  • Pressure Hull
  • Project Fallow
  • Project Hearth
  • Project Lifeboat
  • Project Thaw
  • Project Wildfire
  • Protocol Ember
  • Protocol Winter
  • Pyroclast

Q: 3 names

  • Quadrant Ash
  • Quarantine Zone Echo
  • Quicklime

R: 21 names

  • Rad Storm
  • Raiders' Winter
  • Rainforest Protocol
  • Rainshadow
  • Ration
  • Ration Day
  • Ravenmoor
  • Red Dust Colony
  • Red Waste
  • Red Zone
  • Reef & Rust
  • Rime
  • Rooftop Gardens
  • Rooftop Kingdom
  • Rootbound
  • Rootcellar
  • Rotters
  • Rotwood
  • Ruins of Harrow
  • Rustbelt
  • Rustwater Delta

S: 61 names

  • Saber Winter
  • Saltbrine
  • Saltcrust
  • Saltmarsh
  • Saltmarsh: High Water
  • Saltpan
  • Saltwash
  • Saltwater Grave
  • Salvage
  • Sandsea
  • Scavenger
  • Scavenger's Creed
  • Scorched Meridian
  • Scorchland
  • Scrap
  • Scurvy Coast
  • Season Four
  • Seastack
  • Sector Greywater
  • Seedbank
  • Settlement Ash Creek
  • Settlement Iron Hollow
  • Seven Nights
  • Seventh Dawn
  • Sewerlight
  • Shadowfen
  • Shale Hollow
  • Shambling Season
  • Shelter in Place
  • Shipwrecked: Skerry

S, continued

  • Shiver
  • Silent Moon
  • Sinkhole
  • Sixty Days of Rain
  • Skerry
  • Skyscraper Summer
  • Slagfield
  • Sleet
  • Smoke Season
  • Smokehouse
  • Snowblind
  • Snowline
  • Snowmelt
  • Sodbuster
  • Sporefall
  • Starfall Station
  • Starvation Ridge
  • Starving Sun
  • Station Nightfall
  • Stay Above Ground
  • Stillwater Quarantine
  • Stormcellar
  • Stormshelter
  • Stranded: Barrow Isle
  • Stranded: Coral Reach
  • Subway Shelter
  • Sunbleached
  • Sunderfall
  • Sunscorch
  • Survive the Night
  • Survive the Silt

T: 81 names

  • Tallow & Tin
  • Terra Incognita
  • Thaw
  • Thawline
  • The Ash Road
  • The Back Forty
  • The Baked Earth
  • The Barren Reach
  • The Bitter Shore
  • The Black Thaw
  • The Blighted Mile
  • The Bramble
  • The Brine Fields
  • The Buried Sky
  • The Cinder Plains
  • The Cold Lantern
  • The Dead Canopy
  • The Drowned Mile
  • The Drowned Valley
  • The Drowning Season
  • The Empty Reef
  • The Fallow Year
  • The Fire Must Not Die
  • The Frozen Mile
  • The Furrow Year
  • The Furthest Shore
  • The Glow
  • The Grey Harvest
  • The Hollow Tide
  • The Hollow Wake
  • The Hungry Coast
  • The Iron Orchard
  • The Kindled Dark
  • The Last Campfire
  • The Last Winter
  • The Long Haul
  • The Lost Caldera
  • The Night Garden
  • The Ninth Circle Colony
  • The Ninth Winter

T, continued

  • The Pale Frontier
  • The Quarantine Coast
  • The Quiet Outbreak
  • The Quiet Wood
  • The Raft Diaries
  • The Rotting Season
  • The Rusted Bay
  • The Salt Flats
  • The Salt Year
  • The Saltless Sea
  • The Second Flood
  • The Sick Season
  • The Silt Kingdom
  • The Thaw Ledger
  • The Thawing Ground
  • The Third Year
  • The Tunnels Below
  • The Turned
  • The Unburied
  • The Unlit Mile
  • The Waking Glacier
  • The Wet Season
  • The White Silence
  • Thermocline
  • Thirty Below
  • Thorncoast
  • Thornfield
  • Tidebreak
  • Tidewrack
  • Till Morning
  • Timberline
  • Tinderline
  • Tomb Crawler
  • Trapline
  • Trappers' Winter
  • Treefall
  • Trench Light
  • Tribe of the Hollow
  • Tundra Ghost
  • Tundra Protocol
  • Twelve Miles to Nowhere

U: 5 names

  • Under a Dead Sun
  • Undercity
  • Undergrove
  • Undergrowth
  • Unknown Shore

V: 3 names

  • Vault of Thorns
  • Viper Mile
  • Void Rations

W: 28 names

  • Warden of the Wilds
  • Wastebound
  • Wastelight
  • We Who Remain
  • Week One
  • Whalebone Bay
  • What the Flood Left
  • When the Lights Went Out
  • Where the River Ends
  • Whiteout
  • Wilderness: Raven Ridge
  • Wilderness: Widowmaker Falls
  • Wildfire Season
  • Wildland
  • Wildwood Keep
  • Wind Chill
  • Windbreak
  • Wintering
  • Witchwood
  • Wither
  • Wolf Winter
  • Wolfmonth
  • Wolfpack
  • Woodsmoke
  • Wreck of the Maren
  • Wreckwood
  • Wretched Tides
  • Wyrmfall

Y: 2 names

  • Year Zero
  • Yule Night

Z: 1 name

  • Zone Frostbite