Survival for Xbox 360 — top best games in the Survival genre

Minecraft - a game in the Survival genre

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: Xbox 360 → 9 May 2012

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploring a practically endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

Terraria

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike, Sandbox, Survival, Online

Game released: Xbox 360 → 27 March 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Terraria is an adventure sandbox game with platformer elements and a side view. You will embark on a colorful journey where you can create various items, build...

How to Survive

Action, Horror, Hack and slash, Beat them all, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Zombies, Crafting

Game released: Xbox 360 → 23 October 2013

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This survival action game follows a shipwrecked castaway stranded on a remote island inhabited by monsters. To stay alive, the protagonist must find food and water...

State of Decay

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Survival, Open world, Zombies

Game released: Xbox 360 → 5 June 2013

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This third-person action game with horror and survival elements takes place in an open world after a massive zombie outbreak. A small group of survivors must band...

Resident Evil HD Remaster

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 27 November 2014

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Resident Evil HD Remaster is an improved edition of the legendary action-horror game with a third-person view for modern platforms. The game will delight you with...

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 8 April 2013

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 35/100

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is an adventure shooter with a first-person view, created based on the popular series about the zombie apocalypse The Walking...

I Am Alive

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 7 March 2012

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 8/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This post-apocalyptic survival action game follows a man struggling to stay alive in a ruined city and find his missing wife and daughter, one year after a...

Minecraft: Story Mode

Adventure, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Crafting, Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 13 October 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 75/100

Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic adventure from Telltale Games in the Minecraft universe. The game tells the story of Jesse and his four friends. They did...

Silent Hill 2 (2001)

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 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...

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Fighting, First-person view, Detective, Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 9 March 2010

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A dark psychological thriller in which the hunt for killers gradually turns into a hunt for one's own sanity. FBI agent Ethan Thomas investigates a series of brutal...

Condemned 2: Bloodshot

Action, Shooter, Horror, Fighting, First-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 11 March 2008

Metacritic: 81/100

This first-person shooter with horror elements follows Ethan Thomas, a former Serial Crimes Unit investigator called back to duty after his partner goes missing...

Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 19 October 2010

Metacritic: 46/100

This dark thriller based on the Saw series takes place between the events of Saw and Saw II. Michael, the estranged son of Detective Tapp, investigates his father’s...

Clive Barker's Jericho

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 26 October 2007

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 62/100

This first-person horror shooter follows a special forces squad sent to a lost city that has reappeared in a remote desert. An ancient evil has resurfaced there...

Escape Dead Island

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Zombies, Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 21 November 2014

Players: 3/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 41/100

Escape Dead Island is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view in the Dead Island universe. A mystical survival game awaits you with a fresh look at...

Haunt (2012)

Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 18 January 2012

Metacritic: 70/100

CastleMiner Z

Action, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Survival, Zombies, Online

Game released: Xbox 360 → 9 November 2011

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 85/100

CastleMiner Z is a first-person action game with a touch of horror and indie games from developers from the DigitalDNA studio. The main publisher of the game is...

Silent Hill: Downpour

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 18 May 2012

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Silent Hill: Downpour — mystical third-person horror game with puzzle and action elements. You play as Murphy Pendleton, an escaped criminal. While Murphy...

Dead Rising 2: Case West

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 27 December 2010

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 74/100

An action-horror expansion for Dead Rising 2 that continues the Dead Rising 2 experience. In single-player or co-op, players can create new combo weapons, test them...

Saw

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 6 October 2009

Players: 6/10

Metacritic: 59/100

This third-person survival horror game based on the Saw film franchise follows detective David Tapp, who wakes up in an abandoned asylum after being captured by his...

Neverdead

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 31 January 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 51/100

This third-person action shooter follows an immortal hero battling demons that have returned to plunge the world into chaos. Centuries earlier, demons made him...

Alan Wake: The Signal

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 27 July 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 75/100

An expansion for Alan Wake, The Signal follows Alan Wake as he faces a threat unlike any he has encountered before, yet one that feels familiar. To make sense of...

Alien Breed: Evolution - Episode 1

Action, Shooter, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 16 December 2009

Metacritic: 68/100

An isometric futuristic shooter with survival elements, bringing the Alien Breed series back as a remake powered by Unreal. Alien Breed: Evolution - Episode 1...

Alan Wake: The Writer

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 12 October 2010

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

An action-horror expansion for Alan Wake, in which Alan Wake fights for his life in an increasingly surreal and dangerous world where nightmares become reality. The...

Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 3 March 2010

Metacritic: 75/100

Дополнение для Resident Evil 5, continuing Jill Valentine’s story after Chris Redfield rescues her and leaves to complete his mission. Jill must make her own...

Rise of Nightmares

Action, Horror, First-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 9 July 2013

Metacritic: 54/100

Rise of Nightmares is a first-person horror adventure controlled through the player’s full-body movements. Its survival-horror action and exploration use...

Amy

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 5 February 2013

Metacritic: 29/100

This survival horror action-adventure follows Lana as she tries to escape a disease-ridden city with Amy, an eight-year-old girl with mysterious powers. The player...

Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Survival, Stealth

Game released: Xbox 360 → 29 January 2013

Players: 5/10

Steam: 65/100

This on-rails military shooter follows an operation to stop Iran from launching a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile. The mission begins in...

Dead Rising 2: Case 0

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival

Game released: Xbox 360 → 31 August 2010

Metacritic: 79/100

This third-person action game introduces Chuck Greene, a former motocross champion, and connects the original Dead Rising to the events set in the gambling paradise...

Resident Evil 5: Lost in Nightmares

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 17 February 2010

Metacritic: 80/100

This add-on for Resident Evil 5 follows a mission involving Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine at Spencer’s estate, which Chris alludes to during the main story. He...

Vampire Rain

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 3 July 2007

Metacritic: 34/100

This stealth action game with horror elements follows a special forces unit tasked with eliminating the Nightwalkers, supernatural creatures threatening to overrun...

Survival

Best Games in the Survival genre for Xbox 360