Post-apocalyptic for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Post-apocalyptic genre

Dying Light - a game in the Post-apocalyptic genre

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 October 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Adventure action game in the open world Dying Light allows you to fully immerse yourself in the world of the zombie apocalypse. You can expect upgrades, RPG...

The Long Dark

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 September 2020

Players: 8.6/10

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...

NieR:Automata Game of the YoRHA Edition

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 October 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 91/100

NieR:Automata Game of the YoRHA Edition — a complete third-person action RPG edition NieR Automata. The events revolve around an alien invasion on Earth. Due to...

Remnant: From The Ashes

Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 March 2023

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Cooperative game from the creators of Darksiders 3, set on a post-apocalyptic Earth. The world has been taken over by terrifying monsters from another dimension...

Fallout Shelter

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Free game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 June 2018

Players: 7.5/10

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...

Frostpunk

Strategy, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Frostpunk is a management strategy game from the creators of This War of Mine. The game tells the story of people surviving in a snowy world and using steam...

Darksiders 3

Role-playing game, Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 September 2021

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Darksiders 3 is an action-adventure hack-and-slash game set in a post-apocalyptic world from a third-person perspective. In this new installment of the saga...

Metro 2033 Redux

Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 February 2020

Players: 8.2/10

The Metro universe tells the story of the inhabitants of Moscow, whose city was destroyed by a nuclear strike in 2013. The only salvation turned out to be the...

Fortnite

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 June 2018

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Most of the planet was destroyed by a cataclysm, which led to the emergence of strange creatures resembling zombies. The survivors named them "brain-eaters." The...

ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

Role-playing game, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 September 2020

Players: 8.7/10

ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. The game takes place in the...

Darksiders Genesis

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 February 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Action-slasher with RPG elements, Darksiders Genesis is a prequel to the Darksiders trilogy. The events start decades before the first game, and the main character...

Biomutant

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 May 2024

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Open world action RPG. The player takes on the role of a mutant who goes on a journey to save the world from a threat. The main character can mix up melee attacks...

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

Action, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 June 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a dark fantasy setting. The setting is the fallen kingdom of Outland...

Surviving the Aftermath

Business / Management, Strategy, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), In real time

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 November 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Surviving the Aftermath — a real-time management strategy game from the creators of Surviving Mars. The game allows you to build a colony of people who survived a...

Despot's Game

Indie, Strategy, In real time, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 May 2023

A futuristic post -apocalyptic strategy, where a group of survivors needs to get out of a gloomy labyrinth. The path is full of dangers, but the weapon and...

World War Z

Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 November 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 70/100

World War Z — a cooperative shooter with horror elements and a first-person view, created based on the film "World War Z". The cooperative campaign is designed for...

The Final Station

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 February 2018

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The player will have the opportunity to become a train driver in a desert world, carrying his passengers from...

Ghost Song

Arcade, Side view, Metroidvania, Science fiction, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Horror, Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 3 November 2022

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Ghost Song is an action-adventure platformer in the metroidvania genre with a side view in a dark post-apocalyptic setting. On the desert moon of Lorian, the...

Metro: Last Light Redux

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Collection, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 February 2020

Players: 8/10

Metro: Last Light Redux is an improved version of the post-apocalyptic shooter with a first-person view. The Metro universe tells the story of Moscow residents...

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier

Adventure, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 January 2020

Players: 7.8/10

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is the third season of an episodic third-person adventure set in the Walking Dead universe. The game's plot is connected to...

Crysis Remastered Trilogy

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 October 2021

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Crysis Remastered Trilogy — a remaster of the popular first-person shooter series in a science fiction setting, which includes enhanced versions of Crysis...

Zombie Driver

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Racing, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 July 2019

Players: 6.7/10

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...

Atomicrops

Arcade, Business / Management, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 May 2020

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Atomicrops is a mix of a farming simulator in the spirit of Stardew Valley and roguelite action. The player creates a farm in the post-apocalyptic wastelands and...

God Eater 3

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 July 2019

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 72/100

God Eater 3 is a continuation of the action role-playing game with a third-person view in the God Eater universe. The universe of these games tells about the brutal...

I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival

Isometric, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Survival, Crafting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 January 2026

Players: 8.9/10

The game takes place in a destroyed and flooded post-apocalyptic city. The main character builds a shelter on the roof of a skyscraper. You can explore nearby...

Bastion

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 September 2018

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Bastion is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You will go to a fairy-tale world, which, by the will of fate, is gradually...

FAR: Lone Sails

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 August 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

FAR: Lone Sails is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer set in a post-apocalyptic setting. The main character will have to cross the dry ocean in an amazing...

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 July 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is an adventure tactical strategy with turn-based combat in a futuristic setting. In the game you have to control a team of mutants...

There Is No Light

Action, Indie, Slasher, Post-apocalyptic, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 November 2023

There is No Light is a hardcore action-adventure slasher film set in a dark fantasy setting. After a global catastrophe, humanity was forced to move underground. In...

DEADCRAFT

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Action, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 May 2022

Metacritic: 76/100

DEADCRAFT is a post-apocalyptic zombie survival game with a top-down view from the creators of Daemon X Machina and Doraemon: Story of Seasons. The main...

Death Road to Canada

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 May 2018

Players: 5.5/10

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...

Death Trash

Role-playing game, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Cooperative (co-op)

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

Players: 10/10

Death Trash is a post-apocalyptic isometric role-playing game with horror elements in a futuristic setting. You'll be sent into a world filled with large creatures...

Undying

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Open world, Zombies

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 July 2024

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 74/100

An isometric zombie action game about a mother who is trying to protect her son from all the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world. The problem is that she has been...

The Bunker

Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 April 2018

Players: 6.4/10

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...

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead

Logic, Puzzle, Side view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 November 2020

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead is another crossover in the bridge-building puzzle game Bridge Constructor, this time meeting famous characters from the...

Wasteland 2

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 September 2018

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Wasteland 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the post-apocalyptic role-playing game with turn-based combat that inspired the Fallout series. Just like in the original...

Despotism 3k

Side view, In real time, Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Indie, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 May 2020

Players: 10/10

Despotism 3k is a side-scrolling real-time strategy game in a post-apocalyptic style. Humanity is enslaved by artificial intelligence and this is great because we...

Sheltered

Role-playing game, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 December 2018

Players: 8/10

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...

Metal Max Xeno: Reborn

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Tanks, Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 July 2020

Metacritic: 72/100

Metal Max Xeno: Reborn is an enhanced edition of the Japanese-style sci-fi RPG with turn-based combat, where you fight with futuristic vehicles. The game takes...

Walking Dead: Season 1

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 August 2018

Players: 9.3/10

Walking Dead: Season 1 is an episodic third-person interactive adventure based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comics. The main character is a black guy named...

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Best Games in the Post-apocalyptic genre for Nintendo Switch