Post-apocalyptic
The gaming setting of post-apocalypse transports players to a world that has experienced a global or local (if the place is isolated) catastrophe. During this event, nearly all of the world's population or a specific location perished. The survivors establish their new orders and laws. The entire world is hostile to the player: among the survivors, there are hostile factions, locations are filled with monsters, and the Earth itself has changed and become filled with natural traps (predatory plants, radiation, energy emissions, acid rains, etc.). Such a world is depicted in action games, shooters, role-playing games, and their hybrids.
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Best Games in the Post-apocalyptic genre of 2009
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Open world
October 28, 2008
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
80/100
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...
Arcade, Action, Shooter, Racing, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Sports game
December 4, 2009
Players:
6.7/10
Steam:
84/100
Metacritic:
64/100
Zombie Driver is a whirlwind racing action game with a top-down view in the dangerous world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to travel around a city inhabited by...
Action, Shooter, Strategy, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic
April 17, 2009
Players:
8/10
Iron Sight is a post-apocalyptic shooter with turn-based strategy elements. The premise of the game is deceptively simple: destroy your opponent before he destroys...
Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
October 21, 2005
Steam:
77/100
Metacritic:
67/100
Set in 2054, this post-apocalyptic strategy game combines squad-based tactical combat with global management. Fifty years after a disaster made Earth’s surface...
Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, MMO, Free game, Survival, Open world
September 22, 2009
Steam:
100/100
Metacritic:
71/100
Fallen Earth is an action role-playing game with a third-person view. The year is 2156. The world is scorched by nuclear fire and biochemical weapons. Your journey...
Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic
February 5, 2009
ExZeus (2010) is a third-person arcade game with a mixture of action, shooter, flight simulator and robot simulator from the developers of HyperDevbox Japan. The...
Action, Shooter, Strategy, Stealth, Fighting, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk
April 19, 2006
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
70/100
On a poisoned planet torn apart by an endless war between the Norts and the Southers, the last surviving Genetic Infantryman sets out to avenge his fallen comrades...
Strategy, Horror, In real time, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Tactics
October 3, 2003
Players:
7.4/10
Steam:
77/100
Metacritic:
67/100
This tactical strategy game with RPG elements follows an alien invasion in which a spacecraft releases spores into the atmosphere, wiping out macroscopic life on...
