Post-apocalyptic Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated post-apocalyptic games.

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ICY: Frostbite Edition ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.

Price -90% 1.29€
Rating 8.0
Release 11 Aug 2017
Cart Racer Get a new gaming experience as a racer in a shopping cart! Play for the brutal and steep Cart Racer. Overcome obstacles in the city, in the sea, in the ancient castle and the snowy mountains!

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Jun 2017
Exoplanet: First Contact Build your path in this alien world. Do a dirty job for food or become the one who makes calls. Sometimes the right word makes a bigger impact than a big gun. Explore local culture and mysteries, and discover the harsh yet beautiful nature in this handcrafted singleplayer action RPG.

Price -56% 8.58€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Dec 2016
VERSUS SQUAD Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

Price -75% 1.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Oct 2016
Harmonia From renowned visual novel studio Key, which brought you the highly rated visual novel “planetarian~the reverie of a little planet~”, this is “Harmonia”, the latest kinetic novel in the series.

Price -60% 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 22 Sep 2016
WASTED Get wasted or get wasted trying in WASTED, a roguelike post-apocalyptic pub crawler. Fight tooth and nail, bullets and baseball bats in search of Booze, gain strange mutational Hangovers, and explore the Coolers in search of powerful weapons, armor, and a nice stiff drink to top it all off.

Price -94% 0.80€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Jun 2016
March of the Living Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Price -92% 1.29€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Apr 2016
Shardlight A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.

Price -70% 4.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Mar 2016
The Bottom of the Well Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Mar 2016
Control Craft 2 Control Craft 2 is a real time strategy game where you will have to act quickly against attackers who want to invade our planet! Wave after wave, your soldiers will overthrow the enemy colonies and will occupy enemy bases one after another.

Price -93% 0.38€
Rating 7.1
Release 15 Feb 2016
The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.

Price -90% 1.39€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 Jan 2016
Mushroom 11 An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Oct 2015
Bloodsports.TV Co-Op Hero Defense set in a deadly post-apocalyptic Sweden. Team up with your friends and protect the Missile Silo against horrific beasts and outlaws.

Price -96% 0.43€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Mar 2015
Disney Pixar Cars Mater-National Championship Mater is holding a national race festival allowing racers from all around the world to challenge Lightning McQueen. Along with racing against the new characters, players can explore the world of Radiator Springs and Lightning McQueen's racing headquarters.

Price -65% 6.82€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Feb 2015
Xsyon - Prelude Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.

Price -75% 6.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 Dec 2014
Death Skid Marks Death Skid Marks is a rogue-like car combat game about what so many of us have experienced: a road trip to a music gig… only in this game, things get violent. The game uniquely blends top down arcade action and RPG mechanics.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 20 Nov 2014
Merchants of Kaidan Regain your riches, restore your honor and avenge your father's murder. A challenging trading game with lots of RPG elements.

Price -98% 0.31€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Nov 2014
Richard & Alice Richard and Alice are prisoners. Both their cells have a leather sofa and a state-of-the-art computer. But only Richard’s has a TV. Outside, the snow falls. It has done for some time. Elsewhere, they say, parts of the world have been rendered an inhospitable desert, the earth parched and cracked. People live in the zones now.

Price -83% 0.89€
Rating 6.9
Release 05 Jun 2014
Planet Alcatraz Planet Alcatraz is a 3D role playing game with isometric projection. The player travels through the game world and fights against enemies in the real-time mode.Several genres are mixed in this game but despite that fact it isn't stuck between them and appears to be a classical RPG that is based on a specially developed system.

Price -82% 0.74€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Apr 2014
Collapse In 2013 the Central Europe (Ukraine, Kiev) witnessed a catastrophe. Everybody was mystified by its cause. What happened was beyond our comprehension. Somebody called it the collision of worlds or the stratification of two dimensions.

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 6.9
Release 11 Apr 2014
Marauder Marauder, is a squad based and tactical 3D game with RPG elements. It was released in late 2009, in Russia. You may know these names as the former made Brigade 7,62 and the later also published Pathologic.

Price -75% 2.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 04 Apr 2014
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise Of Clans / Ex Machina: Meridian 113 Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans - is an addon to a vehicular Action/RPG set in an alternate future. New heroes and mysteries await you in the vistas of a post-apocalyptic North America.

Price -82% 1.09€
Rating 7.1
Release 14 Mar 2014
OMG Zombies! OMG! Alert! Alert! The City of Redfield has been hit by an outbreak of exploding zombies! For cool and unimportant reasons these suckers literally explode when shot, showering their zombie brethren with gore and causing chain reactions of showering zombie gibs with just a single bullet!

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Feb 2014
Titan Attacks! As the last surviving tank commander on Earth, single-handedly turn back the evil invading alien army, drive back the Titans across the Solar System, and defeat them on their homeworld... Titan Attacks has the same easy-to-learn and addictive gameplay of the classic arcade shoot 'em up, but is packed full of extras - new features, new...

Price -91% 0.92€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Feb 2012

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