Minecraft survival has player health and player armour strength. It also has a hunger bar. And the player has an inventory of items collected.

And then there are a bunch of statistics. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Statistics

I agree this would make a player that has an unusual play style (never making a base, for example), but it might make for some fun Let's Play videos.

And increasing YouTube subscriber count, and video view count, and video thumbs up, while minimising video thumbs down would be an interesting experiment. ("I welcome our AI Clickbaiting overlords")