# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published September 29, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-20-best-post-apocalyptic-video-games-of-all-time*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Fallout 4** — score 1000/1000
   Bethesda's 2015 Boston wasteland with settlement building.
2. **Horizon Zero Dawn** — score 784/1000
   Guerrilla's 2017 open world of hunters and machine animals, centuries after the fall.
3. **Dying Light** — score 719/1000
   Techland's 2015 parkour zombie game set in a quarantined city.
4. **The Last of Us Part II** — score 660/1000
   Naughty Dog's 2020 sequel about revenge in a flooded, overgrown Seattle.
5. **Rage** — score 642/1000
   id Software's 2011 wasteland shooter after an asteroid strike.
6. **Fallout 3** — score 642/1000
   Bethesda's 2008 open world in the ruins of Washington, D.C.
7. **Enslaved: Odyssey to the West** — score 582/1000
   Ninja Theory's 2010 retelling of Journey to the West in an overgrown future.
8. **Death Stranding** — score 582/1000
   Hideo Kojima's 2019 game about reconnecting a broken America one delivery at a time.
9. **Days Gone** — score 434/1000
   Bend Studio's 2019 biker survival game in the Oregon high desert.
10. **Fallout** — score 434/1000
   Interplay's 1997 original, which started the series from a vault in southern California.
11. **S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl** — score 434/1000
   GSC Game World's 2024 sequel, a return to the Zone 15 years after Call of Pripyat.
12. **Mad Max** — score 434/1000
   Avalanche Studios' 2015 car-combat game in the Wasteland of the film series.
13. **Fallout: New Vegas** — score 342/1000
   Obsidian's 2010 Mojave Desert role-playing game of factions and a stolen platinum chip.
14. **Metro Exodus** — score 342/1000
   4A Games' 2019 sequel that takes the survivors out of the tunnels on a train.
15. **S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl** — score 342/1000
   GSC Game World's 2007 shooter set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, made in Kyiv.
16. **Metro 2033** — score 233/1000
   4A Games' 2010 shooter in the Moscow metro, built by a studio founded in Kyiv by former GSC developers.
17. **The Last of Us** — score 233/1000
   Naughty Dog's 2013 story of Joel and Ellie crossing a fungus-ravaged America.
18. **Frostpunk** — score 233/1000
   11 bit studios' 2018 city builder about keeping a generator alive in a frozen world.
19. **Wasteland 2** — score 233/1000
   inXile's 2014 revival of the 1988 game that inspired Fallout.
20. **NieR: Automata** — score 233/1000
   PlatinumGames' 2017 action game of androids fighting machines on an abandoned Earth.

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