Best Dystopian Games
Dystopian games immerse gamers in frightening yet incredibly captivating worlds where everything has gone wrong. Here, corporations or totalitarian regimes control people, and technologies meant to improve life are used to oppress consciousness.
In this list, we've gathered games that showcase different versions of the future, the past, or an alternative present, prompting reflection on freedom, morality, and the cost of progress.
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic
October 28, 2008
Players:
8.2/10
Metacritic:
91/100
Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy universe. The events of the games take place in 2277. 200 years have passed since the...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga
February 29, 2024
VGTimes:
9.0/10
Players:
8.6/10
Metacritic:
91/100
The second part of the re-release of the Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy VII from 1997 and a direct continuation of VII Remake. Fans of the cult JRPG and...
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk
August 23, 2011
VGTimes:
9.4/10
Players:
8.4/10
Metacritic:
89/100
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a continuation of the legendary first-person action role-playing game Deus Ex. The game will take you to 2027, in which you will play...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Survival
May 23, 2019
Players:
8.7/10
Metacritic:
70/100
Pestilence is a remake of the 2005 open-world thriller. Three very different doctors are trying to save an unusual steppe city from an epidemic of a deadly disease...