Ninjas are traditional Japanese assassins, appearing from the shadows, killing the target within a split second, and disappearing back where they come. Ninjas video games put the player in the centre of the action and allow the player to take own the role of the ninja, unleash his/her abilities to take down the targets to advance. The humans who can move at the sound’s speed like wind are known as Ninjas. They have special skills and are master of Martial Arts. Mostly Role-playing games use the Ninja element. These games can be played from either a side-scroll, third-person or first-person perspectives. During the gameplay, the player uses the ninja special skills and weapons to slay the foes to earn points. These games mix the Stealth, Combat, and Shuriken-based Attack elements. The Tenchu offers the stealth component while games like Shinobi brings the fantastic gameplay with shuriken-based attacks against enemies wearing the battle armour. Ninja Games deal with exploration, combat, stealth, and special abilities.

16 Best Ninja Games for Xbox 360

#1 Ninja Gaiden

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Ninja Gaiden is a Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game developed by Team Ninja for Xbox. The game has Single-player mode and centers on the fictional story of the protagonist named as Ryu Hayabusa, a master who set out on an epic quest to recover the stolen sword and take revenge for the murder of his clan. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his ultimate task is to explore the environment from a third-person, fight against enemies and fulfill his tasks to complete the quest. The protagonist equipped with a sword that he can use to kill enemies and can perform ninja tricks during the gameplay. He can run, jump, and climb on walls to progress in the game. The player needs to solve puzzles, find keys, and fight against foes to become the master. There are multiple quests and each requires a completion of specific goals. Ninja Gaiden offers core features such as detailed Environment, Exploration, Low-level Abilities and more. Ninja Gaiden is the best game as compared to other hack and slash games.

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#2 Mini Ninjas

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Mini Ninjas, developed by IO Interactive is one of the best Action- Adventure, Platforms and Stealth video games like Mark of the Ninja. The game features six main player character that you can play with by switching momentarily, but in order to play with the other characters, you’ll have to rescue them from the enemies. On your journey to free the characters, you’ll have to go on different missions and use a number of weapons (Bombs, Swords, fishing Rods, knives etc.) to defeat your enemies. For a brief time (Until the other characters are rescued by you), you’ll have to play the game as Hiro who is laced up with sword, caltrops and shuriken and amazing magical skills (Firebal, Lightning Bolts, Camouflage and Time Manipulation etc.) and your task is to defeat your enemies who are animals possessed by dark spells. You can defeat them and tame them in order to use them against the enemies and eventually free all of the other characters. You can also collect different items such as Mushrooms, coins, flowers and ginseng roots and exchange them with weapons. With an immersive game-play, cool dynamics, great quest-based storyline and a lot of other great things, Mini Ninjas is a brilliant alternative to Mark of the Ninja. Do try it out.

#3 Fruit Ninja

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Fruit Ninja is a Single and Multiplayer Arcade video game created by Halfbrick Studios. The game allows the players to enjoy playing the game on their Smartphones and tablets. The gameplay of Fruit Ninja is quite easy. The game allows the players to slice the fruits with a Swiping motion on the device’s screen and earn points. The players can use one, two or more fingers to swipe simultaneously and cut all the fruits. Slicing all of the fruits on the screen is necessary and if the players miss slicing three fruits, the game ends. With high scores such as multiples of one hundred, players can get an extra life and carry on playing thins marvelous game. Fruit Ninja includes a mode in the game known as “Zen”. Zen mode allows the players earn more points and high scores with ease and by blasting the bombs on the screen in one minute and thirty seconds. If a player takes more than One Minute Thirty Seconds, he/she can never earn the maximum rewards. Players can also earn big scores by slicing special fruits such as Special bananas. With all the amazing Fruit Slicing fun, addictive gameplay, beautiful 3D visuals and cool background sounds, Fruit Ninja is one of the best Puzzle video games to play and enjoy.

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#4 Ninja Gaiden 3

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Ninja Gaiden 3 offers a brilliant Combination of Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, RPG and Ninja Assassin aesthetics. The game features the protagonist Ryu who gets summoned by the Self Defense Force (SDF) of Japan currently fighting against a massive Terrorist Organization run by the most notorious leader The Alchemist. Ryu joins the Self Defense Force of Japan, starts fighting against the Alchemist forces and himself, captures him in East London. After the Capture of Alchemist, another group of terrorist’s attacks Ryu, The Alchemist gets free and Ryu gets beaten and wounded badly. The Alchemist flees the scene leaving Ryu at the scene, alive but with severe injuries. A chunk of time passes, Ryu gets himself right, follows the Footsteps of The Alchemist and finds him taking refuge in the Rub-Al-Khali, a desert covering almost the Third of the Arabian Peninsula. In order to eliminate The Alchemist, Ryu fights off hordes of his accomplices and finally reaches to Alchemist’s Den where he gets into a One on One melee Combat with The Alchemist and kills him after a long run of bloody fight. Ryu Returns to Japan and the Story Concludes after the demise of Alchemist and his Terrorist organization. Ninja Gaiden 3 offers a fantastic mix-up of multiple genres such as Action, Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash elements along with a wonderful story, great visuals and an immersive game-play.

#5 Mark of the Ninja

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Mark of the Ninja by Klei Entertainment is an Action-Adventure, Side Scrolling Puzzle-Platform, Run and Gun Style Stealth video game. The story of the game kicks off with an attack on a DOJO by a strange force that leaves the protagonist half dead. A female character of the game (Ora) wakes him up and the protagonist starts his journey to avenge the attacking power and all of its allies. Mark of the Ninja lets you be the Ninja and allows you to focus on stealth and platform characteristics. Your objective is to sneak through a series of platforms by staying out of sights of the guards and assassinate your targets silently. The game focuses on your stealth and your sword fighting skills and lets you assassinate your targets by a single slashing blow to their bodies. If a guard sees you, all the lights will immediately turn on and the guards will capture you so you must remain in the dark till the target is executed. Mark of the Ninja allows you to experience an amazing blend of Action-Adventure, Stealth, Platform-Puzzle and Hack and Slash elements. Do try this game out.

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#6 Tenchu Z

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Tenchu Z is an Action-Adventure, Stealth-based Co-op and Single-player video game created by K2 LLC and published by From Software. Unlike previous titles, in which the player create and customize his own ninja character, them builds up his skills as he play through the game, Tenchu Z lets the player select his playable character from a small selection of pre-made characters, as the player takes instruction from the character of previous title named as Rikimaru. It takes place in the stunning world of Gohda, where the protagonist named as Azuma Ninja Clan reside under the king Gohda. According to the plot, the protagonist is sent on an epic mission to assassinate those who assisting the territory of Ogawara, including spies, army generals, and more. The ultimate task of the player is to explore the land, battle against evil people and recover the stolen items and save the prisoners. The game comprises fifty challenging missions with objectives and difficulty settings. Each character has its unique attributes, health, agility, and strength. With challenging gameplay, superb mechanics, and detailed environment, Tenchu Z is the best game to enjoy.

#7 TMNT: Mutant Melee

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TMNT: Mutant Melee (Teenage Mutant Turtles: Mutant Melee) is a Single and Multiplayer Fighting video game published and developed by Konami. It is the sequel to the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game. The game takes place in the 3D environment and includes a variety of playable characters including four protagonists who is turtles such as Casey Jones, Splinter, April O’ Neil, etc. There is two main evil antagonists available as playable characters. It has four different modes such as Last Man Standing, King of the Hill, Knock Out, and Keep Away. The main aim of the player is to become the last living player by defeating different opponents in the Last Man Standing mode. In Knock Out mode, the player must try to take down the enemy within the time limit. Face deadly rounds and battle against different characters to take down. Learn new abilities and become the master. With superb mechanics, addictive gameplay, and cool features, TMNT: Mutant Melee is the best game to play and enjoy.

#8 Strider

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Strider is a marvelous new Action-Adventure, Platform, Stealth and Hack and Slash video game by Double Helix Games. The game offers an amazingly fast-paced and action filled game-play in which you act as the finest Ninja Assassin named as Strider Hiryu who works for the Strider Organization. The Strider Assign you the task to assassinate the Evil Grand maestro Meio who is taking refuge in his den in the city of Kazakh. In order to complete the game objectives, you’ll have to go through the hordes of highly trained and fast acting enemy ninjas, kill them by the use of your great sword wielding and platforming skills and by using other sharp edged weapons like shurikan, knives etc. Strider lets you use the Cypher a plasma weapon as your main weapon that can kill multiple enemies with only one good blow. As you proceed to the advanced levels of the game, Strider allows you to use upgrades to enhance your weapons and skills and get blasted upon the enemies as a bolt of lightning, finally reach to the Grand maestro and assassinate him. With an amazingly fast action, great visuals, immersive game-play and a wonderful story, Strider is a great game to play and enjoy.

#9 Kung Fu Chaos

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Kung Fu Chaos combines the elements of Action, Martial Arts, Fighting, Third-person Perspective, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Just Add Monsters Ltd. The game takes place in the 3D environment with party elements and introduces a set of characters including Master Sho Yu, Ninja Fu Hiya, Lucy Cannon, Monkey, etc. Your main aim is to select your character and dive into the battle where you have to fight up to four characters including you and be the last who survive to win the match. There are different levels and each with the various environment. Each character offers its unique abilities, and personality. The game is about selecting a player and set on a journey to defeat a variety of opponents to become the ultimate master. You can use fighting style and combos to beat your competitors and try to decrease his health bar to knock out. Avoid enemy’s attack and maintain your health bar. Kung Fu Chaos offers prominent features such as a variety of Characters, Martial Arts Gameplay, Smooth Controls, and more. Kung Fu Chaos is the best game for those who love playing fighting games.

#10 Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball

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Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball is a Sports, Volleyball, Single and Multiplayer Third-person Perspective video game created and published by Tecmo. The game offers an exciting gameplay that you have never played before. It takes all female fighters from the Dead or Alive 3 video game and sends them to a mysterious Island called Zack Island. It allows the player to select his/her female character to play for a duration of his/her two-week period. The player starts with a partner in the game, where he/she has to pits against another team in volleyball matches. There are various activities available, and the player chooses one activity in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the night. Ayane, Christie, Helena, Hitomi, Lisa, etc. are the prominent female characters in the game. Each character has its unique abilities, personalities, likes, and dislikes. As the game progresses, it becomes difficult to play. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, excellent controls, and interesting characters Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball is the best game to play and enjoy.

#11 A Kingdom for Keflings

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A Kingdom for Keflings is a City-Building video game created by NinjaBee and published by Microsoft Studios. It supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story, in which the Keflings are the small creatures and needs your help in order to build their beautiful Kingdom. The game casts you as the giant and tasked you to start from a small land and turn it into a beautiful kingdom using different items, accessories, buildings, and equipment. It has a variety of levels and each level requires a set of objectives to complete. Unlock blueprints, building and task by progressing through the game and show your creativity. It takes place in the medieval world filled with little cute creatures. There are different locations to explore, challenging quests to solve and a massive variety of content to unlock. The game is played from an isometric view. Explore the game world, assists the Keflings to collect resources (crystals, stone, wood, and wool) and transport them to different places and structures. It offers the similar gameplay like SimCity and Black & White. A Kingdom for Keflings offers enhanced mechanics, visuals, gameplay, and story. Try it out and it’ll entertain you.

#12 Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a Platform, Action-Adventure and Single-player video game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Namco Bandai Games. The game takes place in the destructive world, in which the war has left the land in ruins, only some humans can survive and nature tries to reclaim the land. The player can dive into the role of the protagonist and explore the game world from the third-person perspective and can use his combat moves and platforming abilities to navigate obstacles. The game world full of monsters, and their supporters and the player have to fight against them using a close-combat system and long-range weapons. It offers exciting open world environment and lets the player uses melee weapons and combat for fend off his enemies. Earn lots of points by completing objectives and use them to unlock advanced options. The player will gain experience as he explores the game world and completes a series of objectives. Stunning Environment, Dynamic Combat System, Melee Attacks, Engaging Storyline, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out.

#13 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution

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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution is a Fighting, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Games for multiple platforms. The game serves as the sequel to Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, released in 2013, and revolves around a revamped fighting system. The game introduces a new way of establishing teams based on their counterattacks, skills as well as guard attacks. There are more than 100 playable characters available and the player must select his favorite to battle against rivals in one-on-one matches. It offers the similar gameplay to its previous titles and comes with fourteen support characters. The game gives the ability to the player to unleash his deadly attack to serious damage. There is a limit of deadly attack, but it can be used in many times. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution offers key features such as Tons of new Techniques, Support Ninjas, Ninja Battle Action, Improved Gameplay, Exclusive Characters, Ninja World Tournament, and more. Try it out, if you love playing Fighting Games.

#14 Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3

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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 is an Action-Adventure, Fighting, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Namco Bandai Games. It is the fourth entry in the series of Ultimate Storm and focuses on fighting elements. The game features up to eighty characters, and each character has its unique skills and abilities. You can select one of them to start your battle against another player or AI character to show off your fighting. The character can use his kicking and punching abilities with combos to take down the opponent. Each character in the game equips with a health bar, and you can choose two different characters to assist you in battle like previous entries. The helping characters can assist you through the use of 13 different types of combos. It offers exciting story, in which the leader of the villages named the Kages, inviting the people to discuss the terrorist attacks by an organization named Akatsuki. Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 includes prominent features such as Epic Storyline, Excellent Gameplay, Additional Chapter, Hundred new Missions and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#15 Ninja Blade

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Ninja Blade is an Action, Hack and Slash and Single-player video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Microsoft Game Studios. According to the story, a small tribe was attacked by unknown creatures, and the remaining survivors were moved to find a facility. The survivors show the symptoms of necrotizing while researching facility and they find out that they are infected by an unknown virus known as Alpha war. The virus spread around the world and infected the almost population. Most of the people are looking for its cure but failed. The game takes place in the fictional land and cast you in the role of the protagonist and assigned you a task to navigate the world and find a cure to save your people. You can navigate the world from a third-person perspective and can fight against monsters and their supports using your mighty sword. Your character can run, jump, and fight against creatures using his sword. Ninja Blade offers prominent features such as a variety of Ninja Abilities, Weapons and Upgrade system, Cinematic Action, City of Tokyo and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#16 Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z

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Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is a cool Third-person Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, RPG and Beat ‘em’ Up video game from the Ninja Gaiden series. The story of the game revolves around the character of Yaiba Kamikaze, a Ninja with special Ninja and Skills and abilities. After an outrage in the Clan, Yaiba Kamikaze turns against all of his Clan Elders and kills them and soon after that challenges Ryu Hayabusa, the leader of the clan. After a series of combats, Ryu Hayabusa slices up Yaiba’s left arm and that results in the death of Yaiba. After being resurrected, Yaiba Kamikaze emerges from the dead and follows the trail of Ryu Hayabusa, encounters him one last time and kills him. After killing Ryu Hayabusa, Yaiba finds out that the Forge Industries is manipulating every event from the very start and the recent Zombie outbreak is one of its doing. Yaiba travels to Ukraine where Russian Army invades Ukraine and the protagonist teams up with the Ukrainians and fight off against the forces and zombies all together and finally brings down the Forge Industries along with all of its owners and plotters. With great story, an amazingly engaging game-play and a lot of other cool things, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is a great Action-Adventure and RPG game to play and enjoy. try it out and you’ll love every bit of this brilliant game.