The 20 Best Post-Apocalyptic Video Games of All Time

Some of these wastelands are played for laughs and some for grief, and a couple were made in a city about 100 km from the real Zone.

1. 1
   Fallout 4

   Bethesda's 2015 Boston wasteland with settlement building.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Horizon Zero Dawn

   Guerrilla's 2017 open world of hunters and machine animals, centuries after the fall.
   784pts
3. 3
   Dying Light

   Techland's 2015 parkour zombie game set in a quarantined city.
   719pts
4. 4
   The Last of Us Part II

   Naughty Dog's 2020 sequel about revenge in a flooded, overgrown Seattle.
   660pts
5. 5
   Rage

   id Software's 2011 wasteland shooter after an asteroid strike.
   642pts
6. 6
   Fallout 3

   Bethesda's 2008 open world in the ruins of Washington, D.C.
   642pts
7. 7
   Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

   Ninja Theory's 2010 retelling of Journey to the West in an overgrown future.
   582pts
8. 8
   Death Stranding

   Hideo Kojima's 2019 game about reconnecting a broken America one delivery at a time.
   582pts
9. 9
   Days Gone

   Bend Studio's 2019 biker survival game in the Oregon high desert.
   434pts
10. 10
    Fallout

    Interplay's 1997 original, which started the series from a vault in southern California.
    434pts
11. 11
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

    GSC Game World's 2024 sequel, a return to the Zone 15 years after Call of Pripyat.
    434pts
12. 12
    Mad Max

    Avalanche Studios' 2015 car-combat game in the Wasteland of the film series.
    434pts
13. 13
    Fallout: New Vegas

    Obsidian's 2010 Mojave Desert role-playing game of factions and a stolen platinum chip.
    342pts
14. 14
    Metro Exodus

    4A Games' 2019 sequel that takes the survivors out of the tunnels on a train.
    342pts
15. 15
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

    GSC Game World's 2007 shooter set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, made in Kyiv.
    342pts
16. 16
    Metro 2033

    4A Games' 2010 shooter in the Moscow metro, built by a studio founded in Kyiv by former GSC developers.
    233pts
17. 17
    The Last of Us

    Naughty Dog's 2013 story of Joel and Ellie crossing a fungus-ravaged America.
    233pts
18. 18
    Frostpunk

    11 bit studios' 2018 city builder about keeping a generator alive in a frozen world.
    233pts
19. 19
    Wasteland 2

    inXile's 2014 revival of the 1988 game that inspired Fallout.
    233pts
20. 20
    NieR: Automata

    PlatinumGames' 2017 action game of androids fighting machines on an abandoned Earth.
    233pts

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