The Best Survival Games for Xbox Series X - Page 4

Update : Survivalist: Invisible Strain added at rank #39.
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Endzone - A World Apart (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Endzone - A World Apart is a post-apocalyptic city-building game that challenges you to rebuild society in a radioactive wasteland. With an extensive tutorial, you'll navigate challenging environmental effects, manage resources, and make meaningful decisions to ensure the survival of your people. The game will test your survival skills and requires strategic placement of buildings and resource monitoring. While a steep learning curve may hinder some players, the game offers hours of enjoyable content and a great sense of accomplishment when your settlement begins to thrive.


What we like:
  • Extensive tutorial for in-depth guidance
  • Challenging environmental effects add immersive gameplay
  • Visually appealing with a trippy soundtrack
  • Trading system sets an example
  • Game mechanics are solid
What could be improved:
  • Poor AI pathing and priorities
  • Unbalanced raiders quickly disrupt game enjoyment
  • Updates are slow with frequent patches needed
  • Building alerts are not prominent

  • city-building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • survival
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • building
  • management
  • simulated
  • resource

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ARK: Survival Evolved (2017)

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Android Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone stadia

ARK: Survival Evolved is an action-adventure game that throws you into a mysterious world filled with dinosaurs, where you must learn to survive and craft your own weapons, clothing, and tools in order to thrive. You must explore the land, build bases and enlist the help of creatures in order to defend against predators. With beautiful water animations, lush forests and varied creatures ARK will keep you engaged and entertained for hours.


What we like:
  • Varied creatures to explore & tame
  • Combat is incredibly satisfying
  • Crafted weapons can be used to threaten or destroy enemies
  • Trading items with other players
  • Stunning visuals & water animations
What could be improved:
  • Awful character customisation
  • Long taming process can test patience

  • survival
  • dinosaurs
  • crafting
  • open-world

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Praey for the Gods (2021)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One

Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • lore
  • climbing
  • cinematic
  • fantasy
  • soundtrack
  • mythology
  • fight
  • platform

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Voidtrain (2023)

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PC Windows j Xbox Series X

Embark on a surreal journey in Voidtrain, where you'll craft, upgrade, and battle aboard your very own train in a mysterious void. Dive into a vast world, customize your train to the fullest, and uncover the enigmatic lore awaiting your discovery. Are you ready to engineer your adventure?


What we like:
  • Stunning visuals
  • Engaging crafting and upgrading system
  • Dynamic, ever-changing environments
  • Lengthy gameplay for extensive exploration
What could be improved:
  • Grind-heavy progression
  • Occasional minor bugs

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • building
  • first-person
  • trains
  • exploration
  • sandbox

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Deadside (2020)

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early access Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Deadside is a hardcore multiplayer shooter with survival elements. Post-Apocalypse, PvP, PvE, open world, realistic weapons, craft, base building


  • open-world
  • survival
  • crafting
  • shooter
  • post-apocalyptic
  • pvp
  • first-person
  • multiplayer
  • base-building
  • fps
  • tps
  • mmo
  • cooperative

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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

The only survival crafting game set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth, the iconic fantasy world created by J.R.R. Tolkien.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • dwarf

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Oppidum (2025)

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Android Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch j Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Face the challenges of Oppidum, a survival adventure for 1-4 players with a unique story waiting to be unraveled. Build a camp, collect everything a fantastic land can offer, and use it to push forward through the island. A world hanging by a thread needs your help – will you answer the call?


  • survival
  • crafting
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • survival-crafting
  • resource-management
  • farming
  • character
  • customization
  • simulation
  • adventure
  • action-adventure
  • stylized
  • narrative
  • exploration

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ARK: Survival Ascended (2023)

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early access Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox One

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!


  • multiplayer
  • dinosaurs
  • survival
  • mmo
  • crafting
  • base-building
  • non-mod
  • building
  • subdue-
  • -protect
  • open-world
  • character
  • pve
  • inventory
  • pvp

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Survivalist: Invisible Strain (2025)

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j Xbox Series X PC Windows

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.


  • survival
  • open-world
  • colony
  • crafting
  • conversation
  • zombies
  • hunting
  • post-apocalyptic
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • character
  • procedural
  • stealth
  • choices
  • customization

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7 Days to Die (2024)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Xbox One

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!


  • zombies
  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • survival-horror
  • post-apocalyptic
  • sandbox
  • cooperative

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