Best Post-apocalyptic Games 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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Unturned You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 07 Jul 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 1.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Jun 2017
planetarian HD planetarian HD is an engaging and emotional visual novel from legendary game studio, Key. A sub-brand of VISUAL ARTS, Key are also famed for creating Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, Rewrite, Angel Beats!, and Summer Pockets.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 May 2017
Fallout Shelter Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Mar 2017
Rain World You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Price -90% 2.63€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Mar 2017
NieR:Automata™ NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.

Price -60% 15.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Mar 2017
BRAIN / OUT Brain / Out is a multiplayer shooter with a nostalgic post-Soviet feel. Experience dynamic battles and exterminate your enemies with a large arsenal of modern weaponry. Lock'n'load!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 24 Feb 2017
CAYNE Hadley wakes in a facility. She is 9 months pregnant. They want her baby... CAYNE is the FREE, isometric horror game from the creators of STASIS.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 24 Jan 2017
Rise & Shine Welcome to Gamearth, a once peaceful planet now threatened by the warmongering Space grunts of Nexgen. In the aftermath of their devastating first strike a child named Rise is forced to take on the sacred gun Shine - and with it the fate of his world.

Price -67% 3.26€
Rating 6.7
Release 13 Jan 2017
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?

Price -87% 1.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Dec 2016
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 -26% 14.43€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Dec 2016
Arizona Sunshine® Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.

Price -63% 7.48€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Dec 2016
Darksiders Warmastered Edition Deceived by the forces of evil into prematurely bringing about the end of the world, War – the first Horseman of the Apocalypse – stands accused of breaking the sacred law by inciting a war between Heaven and Hell.

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 Nov 2016
Killing Floor 2 In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.

Price -97% 0.95€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Nov 2016
Dead Age Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Nov 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 -68% 2.56€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Oct 2016
Slayaway Camp A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.

Price -73% 2.05€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Oct 2016
Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency A Pro-Donald Trump presidential simulation. Make America Rich Again through trade. Make America Safe again by Defeating ISIS. Make America Great Again!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Sep 2016
Stellar Tactics A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with thousands of star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!

Price -33% 13.23€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Sep 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 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 22 Sep 2016
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day The Uncertain is an story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Experience the mysterious vibe of each of carefully explored locations, solve diverse puzzles, make fateful decisions and discuss intriguing matters to find out the whole truth being kept from you.

Price -94% 0.53€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Sep 2016
The Bunker The Bunker is an award-winning interactive psychological horror movie. You are John, born underground the day the bombs fell, now alone and trying to survive. But when an alarm goes off, a catastrophic chain of events begins. Unlock the dark secrets of your past as you try to escape The Bunker.

Price -80% 3.05€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Sep 2016
The Underground Man Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Sep 2016
The Final Station Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Price -94% 1.01€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016
GOD EATER 2 Rage Burst Swear your oath as a GOD EATER and drive back the supernatural harbingers of Earth’s destruction. Buy GOD EATER 2 Rage Burst and get GOD EATER Resurrection FOR FREE

Price -92% 4.37€
Rating 7.5
Release 29 Aug 2016
Sixtieth Kilometer You're going to work by train, but strange things happens on the way: the train stops, the pink fog appears outside and the man who came off the train immediately dies. The main characters turned out to be locked in the train without any clues about what's happening...

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 25 Aug 2016
Frozen State Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.

Price 11.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 05 Aug 2016
Bot Vice Show off your skills & reflexes in this frantic gallery shooter action arcade, filled with bullets, bots and explosions! You play as Erin Saver, carrying out her personal vendetta against the criminal Wildbots.

Price -92% 0.87€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Jul 2016
The Technomancer The Technomancer is a sci-fi RPG that offers players plenty of dynamic combat action based on 4 skill trees dedicated to 3 combat styles and the destructive electrical powers of the Technomancers.

Price -94% 0.60€
Rating 6.7
Release 28 Jun 2016
KARAKARA KARAKARA. It is the sound of aridity. It is the sound of dry asphalt and sandy winds. It is the sound of relentless sunshine, as well as the sound of a withering race.

Price -83% 1.73€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Jun 2016
Deadlight: Director's Cut A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.

Price 11.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 21 Jun 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 -37% 8.30€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Jun 2016
Investigator Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.

Price -23% 3.11€
Rating 6.7
Release 01 Jun 2016
35MM Post-apocalyptic story about two travelers who set out on a long journey in the wasteland, left by people after the global epidemic.

Price -72% 2.52€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 May 2016
Scrap Garden Scrap Garden is a charming puzzle platformer about the adventures of Canny, a lonely robot, who awakens in a post-apocalyptic world to find all other robots shut down and seized up. What happened to the City? Why did all robots stop moving? Did anyone survive except him?

Price -93% 0.59€
Rating 7.3
Release 06 May 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 -97% 0.51€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Apr 2016

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