# List of survival and escape room anime and manga
## Legend

    Survival game – The setting of a story is explicitly made to be a survival game/tournament, where loss equals death.
    Survival game Lite – The setting of a story is explicitly made to be a game/tournament, where loss equals financial ruin or slavery/loss of freedom or memory loss or loss of powers.
    Survival – The story revolves either around murderer(s)/assassin(s) hunting/targeting an individual or a specific small group of people as they are trying to survive, or an individual or a small group of people trying to survive in unknown/inhospitable environment.
| Year | Title | Creator(s) | Type | Original medium |
| 2001 | 7 Seeds | Yumi Tamura | Survival | Manga |
| | Aiyou's Secret Room (X&Y) | | Escape room | Manhua |
| 2020 | Akudama Drive | Norimitsu Kaihō, Tomohisa Taguchi | Survival | Anime |
| 2010 | Alice in Borderland | Haro Aso | Survival game | Manga |
| 2015 | Angels of Death (Satsuriku no Tenshi) | Hoshikuzu KRNKRN | Survival game | Video game |
| 1979 | Arion | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Survival | Manga |
| 2015 | Battle Game in 5 Seconds | Saizō Harawata, Kashiwa Miyako | Survival game | Manga |
| 2000 | Battle Royale | Koushun Takami, Masayuki Taguchi | Survival game | Manga |
| 2011 | Big Order | Sakae Esuno | Survival | Manga |
| 2002 | Blue Heaven | Tsutomu Takahashi | Survival | Manga |
| 2009 | Btooom! | Junya Inoue | Survival game | Manga |
| 1999 | Bus Gamer | Kazuya Minekura | Survival game | Manga |
| 2011 | C ([C] CONTROL) | Noboru Takagi | Survival game Lite | Anime |
| 1996 | Corpse Party | Kenix Soft | Survival game | Video game |
| 2010 | Danganronpa | Spike, Spike Chunsoft | Survival game | Video game |
| 2012 | Darwin's Game | FLIPFLOPs | Survival game | Manga |
| 2007 | Deadman Wonderland | Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou | Survival game | Manga |
| 2009 | DCD (Diamond Cut Diamond) | Kenji Taguchi | Survival | Manga |
| 2012 | Doreiku | Shinichi Okada, Hiroto Ōishi | Survival game Lite | Manga |
| 2007 | Doubt, Judge, Secret | Yoshiki Tonogai | Survival game | Manga |
| 2012 | Dramatical Murder | Nitro+chiral | Survival game | Video game |
| 2009 | Eden of the East | Kenji Kamiyama | Survival game | Anime |
| 2011 | Five Numbers! (Norageki!) | Dai Satō | Escape room | Anime |
| 2006 | Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) | Sakae Esuno | Survival game | Manga |
| 2000 | Gantz | Hiroya Oku | Survival game | Manga |
| 2015 | Gleipnir | Sun Takeda | Survival game | Manga |
| 2013 | High-Rise Invasion | Tsuina Miura, Takahiro Oba | Survival | Manga |
| 2018 | Human Ranch | Yusura Kankitsu, Ageha Saotome | Survival | Manga |
| 2015 | Juni Taisen: Zodiac War | Nisio Isin, Hikaru Nakamura | Survival game | Light novel |
| 1993 | Jyu-Oh-Sei (Jyu-Oh-Sei: Planet of the Beast King) | Natsumi Itsuki | Survival | Manga |
| 2023 | KamiErabi God.app | Yoko Taro, Jin | Survival game | Anime |
| 2006 | Kämpfer | Toshihiko Tsukiji, Senmu | Survival game | Light novel |
| 2012 | Magical Girl Raising Project | Asari Endō, Maruino | Survival game | Light novel |
| 2012 | Magical Girl Apocalypse (Magical Girl of the End) | Kentarō Satō | Survival | Manga |
| 2013 | Magical Girl Site | Kentarō Satō | Survival | Manga |
| 2014 | The Ones Within (Nakanohito Genome [Jikkyouchuu]) | Osora | Survival game | Manga |
| 2011 | Phi Brain: Puzzle of God | Mayori Sekijima, Junichi Sato | Survival game | Anime |
| 2011 | Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Madoka Magica) | Magica Quartet, Gen Urobuchi | Survival | Anime |
| 1997 | Revolutionary Girl Utena | Yōji Enokido | Survival game | Anime |
| 2012 | Riddle Story of Devil (Akuma no Riddle) | Yun Kōga, Sunao Minakata | Survival | Manga |
| 2009 | The Severing Crime Edge | Tatsuhiko Hikagi | Survival game | Manga |
| 2021 | Sonny Boy | Shingo Natsume | Survival | Anime |
| 2016 | Talentless Nana | Looseboy, Iori Furuya | Survival | Manga |
| 2013 | Tasūketsu: Fate of the Majority | Taiga Miyakawa | Survival game | Manga |
| 2013 | Tomodachi Game | Mikoto Yamaguchi, Yuki Sato | Escape room | Manga |
| 2003 | Uninhabited Planet Survive! | Shōji Yonemura | Survival | Anime |
| 2017 | Your Turn to Die -Death Game by Majority- | Nankidai | Survival game | Video game |
| 2018 | The Promised Neverland | | Escape | Manga |