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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Platforms
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Statuses
Best Games in the Post-apocalyptic genre of 2017 (Game released)
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 → 2 November 2017
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
87/100
Metacritic:
76/100
Post-apocalyptic action adventure with first-person view and survival elements. The game tells the story of pilot Will McKennzie, who caught his plane in a...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Adventure
Game released: PlayStation 4, PC → 5 December 2017
Players:
8.3/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
84/100
Complete Edition Horizon Zero Dawn, which includes the original game and the expansion The Frozen Wilds. You will have to immerse yourself in a world where you...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Adventure
Game released: PlayStation 4, PC → 1 March 2017
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
89/100
Horizon Zero Dawn is an action role-playing game with a third-person view in the world of a futuristic post-apocalypse. The game is dedicated to the confrontation...
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 15 March 2016
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
77/100
Metacritic:
64/100
Sheltered is a procedurally generated adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. After many died in a nuclear holocaust, you are lucky enough to survive in a...
Game released: Android, iOS, PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 13 August 2015
Players:
7.6/10
Steam:
85/100
Metacritic:
71/100
Fallout Shelter is a free-to-play side-view management strategy game set in the Fallout universe. In the game you have to build your own shelter and take care of...
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Collection, Post-apocalyptic
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 26 September 2017
Players:
8.5/10
Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition is a special edition of the role-playing game in the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 4. The game includes all the latest...
Role-playing game, Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Free game
Game released: Android, iOS → 25 May 2017
Players:
8.2/10
Last Day on Earth: Survival is an isometric online shooter with survival and horror elements. In this game you will find yourself on a land that has turned into an...
Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Sandbox, Survival, Zombies
Game released: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, Linux → 12 November 2020
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
90/100
Unturned is a multiplayer sandbox action game with a first-person view. The main goal here is to survive by defending yourself from zombies and hostile players...
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Zombies, Online, Post-apocalyptic
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 18 November 2016
Players:
7.5/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
76/100
Killing Floor 2 is a cooperative zombie shooter with a first-person view. The action takes place in Europe after the appearance of zombie-like creatures. Up to six...
Online, Educational game (Education), Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Tactics, Science fiction, Zombies, Action
Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 10 November 2017
Steam:
57/100
The game takes place in the year 2000. The UN created quarantine zones around the world to conceal the spread of an unknown virus. Scientists searched for the cause...
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Open world
Game released: Mac, PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360 → 2 February 2012
VGTimes:
7.4/10
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
73/100
Metacritic:
80/100
This post-apocalyptic action game combines shooting with driving across a devastated landscape. Players explore the surroundings and engage in...
Game released: PC, Linux, Mac, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 22 July 2016
Players:
5.5/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
79/100
Death Road to Canada is a top-down action RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. You will go to the center of a full-scale invasion of the living dead. Having taken...
Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Mac, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 → 20 September 2016
Players:
6.4/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
61/100
Bunker is an interactive psychological thriller with horror elements. The game is a reincarnation of video quests that were popular back in the 90s. You will play...
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 9 September 2003
Players:
8.7/10
Metacritic:
66/100
Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with RPG elements, pitting the player against aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and other enemies. The goal is to survive the...
Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic, Indie
Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 26 September 2017
Steam:
84/100
Metacritic:
68/100
A futuristic mech action game about a war on a devastated Earth, where a young pilot controls a Battle Frame. The campaign pits the player against enemy units...
Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Space
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 7 November 2017
Players:
7/10
Steam:
77/100
This post-apocalyptic space strategy game with action and role-playing elements follows survival in a galaxy after a zombie apocalypse. Infrastructure has...
Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Horror, Simulation, DLC, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Open world
Game released: PC → 16 January 2017
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
100/100
Waste Walkers Subsistence — a post-apocalyptic survival role-playing game created in RPG Maker. In the game, users will encounter a hunger and thirst system, a...
