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noun
A video game genre that emphasizes scarcity of resources (such as health or ammunition refills) in a dangerous setting like that of a horror film.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: video-games
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noun
An individual game in this genre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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History
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese サバイバルホラー (sabaibaru horā), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from survival + horror.
Across languages
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