Is buying investment plans from insurance companies, eg. Prudential, considered as investing for your future?

For typical insurance such as term life and personal accident, I would say that it isn't a form of investment but rather, a protection for yourself and family should any unfortunate incident were to happen. However if you're referring to endowment plans, then I guess you can consider it as a form of investment

most investment linked policy does not provide good returns so in my view I would say no.

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it would be better to buy insurance for risk mitigation and focus on your own set of investment.

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Unless you are refering to endowment aka savings plans. Then yes that would be part of your investment bucket but personally I do not like savings plans due to low returns.

An analogy suddenly hit me.
Think of different roles in an RPG. Your financial plan is like a team.
Insurance - Healer
Tank - Bonds / Fixed Deposit
Fighter - Fixed income with Equities
Assassin/Marksmen - Equities only and higher risk
They all play different role in your financial plan. Some are aggressive in getting returns (but also suffer huge damage if overpowered)
While some does nothing much, but supports the plan

So insurance provide the support that in the event any of the guys got killed, it resets by healing / resurrecting to a base portfolio. But it's damage ability (ROI) is super low.

An investment plan with insurers is like a Mixed class with elements of healer and maybe fighter or assassin. But trade off is it's (premium), required you to purchase and the stats may, or may not be better than a pure build.
It depends on how it is customised, and hence required more knowledge on your FA to make it a good customised hero

No, it is more for protection rather than for investment. Insurance is more of an income replacement if one were to lose the ability to generate income.