Survival for Xbox — top best games in the Survival genre

Silent Hill 2 (2001)

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Logic, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 24 October 2001

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Silent Hill 2 (2001) — mystical action-horror with puzzle elements and third-person view. James Sunderland comes to Silent Hill after receiving a letter from...

Silent Hill 4: The Room

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Logic, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 27 September 2004

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Silent Hill 4: The Room is a mystical action-horror game with a third-person view and puzzle elements. The goal of the game is to help the character Henry Townsend...

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 8 November 2002

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is an enhanced version of the game, first released on XBox and later ported back to PS2 and PC. Most of the gameplay consists of...

Evil Dead: Regeneration

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 13 September 2005

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 67/100

This third-person action horror game offers a “what if” continuation of Evil Dead 2. Ash, the sole survivor of an encounter with the Necronomicon, is confined to an...

Suffering

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 14 May 2004

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Suffering is a third-person action horror game. As Torque kills enemies during gameplay, an on-screen meter called the insanity meter begins to fill. When it is...

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 25 January 2005

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

This survival horror story follows twin sisters Mio and Mayu Amakura as they find themselves in an abandoned village. After spotting a crimson butterfly in the sky...

Thing (2002)

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 18 October 2002

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 78/100

This third-person action horror game follows a military rescue team sent to Antarctica to investigate the mysterious deaths of an American scientific expedition. In...

Fatal Frame

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 2 May 2003

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Fatal Frame is a Japanese-style third-person action-horror adventure game. Armed with a camera, the young girl Miku Hinasaki, along with an ancient camera, goes in...

The Suffering: Ties That Bind

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 28 October 2005

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 75/100

This action-horror game unfolds in the streets and prisons of Baltimore, where Torque seeks revenge against Blackmore, a mysterious mastermind connected to the...

Dino Crisis 3

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival

Game released: Xbox → 16 September 2003

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 51/100

Dino Crisis 3 is an action game with a third-person view. Throughout almost the entire game, the player controls the character Patrick, and only in some places you...

Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 17 June 2003

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 57/100

This third-person action horror game follows Ash as he tries to save Dearborn from the deadites pouring through a vortex opened during an investigation into the...

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge

Action, Fighting, Music game, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Survival

Game released: Xbox → 13 October 2005

Metacritic: 65/100

This third-person action-adventure based on the animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas continues the story of Jack Skellington and other familiar characters...

Breakdown

Action, Shooter, Fighting, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival

Game released: Xbox → 16 March 2004

Metacritic: 71/100

This first-person science-fiction action game follows Derrick Cole, who wakes up in a mysterious laboratory with no memory of his past and struggles to survive...

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Best Games in the Survival genre for Xbox