Best Post-apocalyptic Games on Steam
Games set after catastrophe, collapse, wastelands, scarcity, or broken civilizations.
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1Left 4 Dead 2
- Players say: Four survivors battle through Deep South campaigns, sharing supplies and rescuing teammates as zombie encounters shift each run. Players like: Co-op Teamwork · Dynamic Replayability · Workshop Mods
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Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Nov 16, 2009
In this game, you can…
- play as the infected in multiplayer, coordinating ambushes and hunting your friends as special monsters.
- have a giant brute show up mid-fight and start throwing cars at you in the middle of your escape route.
- run the same campaign twice and get different enemy spawns, item placement, lighting, and even weather, changing every fight and route.
- rip through a crowd with a chainsaw, then swap to a frying pan and keep clearing zombies up close.
- get grabbed by a long tongue and dragged around a corner while your team has to sprint after you.
- startle a crying witch, and she instantly mauls the nearest survivor.
- get vomited on, and it immediately calls a horde straight onto your whole team.
- race to fill a generator with gas cans while the other team tries to stop you, turning the match into a frantic objective sprint.
2Unturned
- Players say: Scavenge a zombie-overrun world, craft gear and shelter, and try to survive alone or with others in co-op and PvP. Players like: Nostalgic Memories · Playing With Friends · Open-Ended Survival
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Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Jul 7, 2017
In this game, you can…
- arrest other players with handcuffs and blindfolds instead of killing them, then stage prisoner captures on roleplay servers.
- find a tank, stock ammo for it, and use it to raid other players' bases.
- pose as a killed player, talk your way into their squad, ride in their truck, then shoot the front seats and take everything.
- build a silenced, scoped marksman gun from junk parts, including duct-tape optics and a campfire-made muffler.
- shoot out of vehicles, cram friends into a truck, and do drive-bys as a rolling squad platform.
- fortify rooftops and hillside bases with barricades and traps, or even build on a vehicle to make a moving fortress.
- recruit a beach full of kids into your crew, make yourself the leader, and roll up on bases as a growing mob.
- explore huge maps for hidden bunkers, military zones, and radioactive deadzones, then hop into custom workshop maps built for totally different modes.
3Dying Light
- Players say: Trapped in zombie-stricken Harran, an agent races across rooftops, scavenges supplies, crafts weapons, and faces deadly nights. Players like: Fluid Rooftop Parkour · Tense Night Chases · Satisfying Melee Combat
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First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Jan 26, 2015
In this game, you can…
- swing across the skyline with a grappling hook that opens up entirely new routes.
- outrun night hunters, flash an ultraviolet light to buy seconds, then hide in a pipe until the chase ends.
- dropkick enemies off rooftops so they ragdoll down six-story drops.
- chain parkour into kills by vaulting a zombie and instantly drop-attacking for a finisher.
- turn the city into a weapon by luring zombies into spikes, fires, and exploding barrels.
- risk going out at night for bigger rewards, then sprint safehouse-to-safehouse when the world flips into hunt mode.
- craft melee weapons with elemental effects that set zombies on fire or shock them on hit.
- join a friend in co-op and race rooftops together, turning escapes into shared, chaotic near-misses.
4Project Zomboid
- Players say: In a zombie-overrun Kentucky sandbox, create a survivor, scavenge and fortify a home, manage daily needs, and try to outlast the horde. Players like: Emergent Survival Stories · Detailed Survival Systems · Tense Atmosphere
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Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Nov 8, 2013
In this game, you can…
- look down from a skyscraper roof at thousands of zombies swarming below, then get trapped inside and survive by rationing food.
- trade Sonic fan fiction for gasoline in multiplayer, then crash the car and die four minutes later.
- kill your bitten friend after he turns into a zombie, using a frying pan on the side of a highway.
- load a car with supplies, drive out for a VHS-store run, and find a pristine video store packed with tapes after clearing the street.
- press one wrong key, accidentally shout, and pull the whole neighborhood into your base like a siren.
- turn a lumber mill into a fortified co-op settlement with roof crops and water projects, then lose it to a kitchen fire and a converging horde.
- loot a gun store, get chased deeper into the city by a helicopter, fight from a rooftop until the door breaks, then jump off and keep going on a shattered leg.
- level skills by doing physical work like dismantling furniture and electronics, stripping car parts, and even practicing first aid by bandaging your own injuries.
5R.E.P.O.
- Players say: As a robot crew in haunted ruins, haul fragile valuables past monsters and extract enough loot to fund upgrades. Players like: Co-op Laughs · Chaotic Physics · Horror Atmosphere
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An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Feb 26, 2025
In this game, you can…
- get dumped into a boxing arena when the mission fails and beat your friends to crown a winner.
- run over a teammate with the cart, pick up their body, and use it to kill a monster.
- watch a monster sprint up, snatch a 20k statue you can barely lift, and hurl it back hard enough to wipe the team.
- revive teammates mid-round by cashing out their head, or dragging them back to the truck for a revive.
- haul fragile, fully physics-based treasure like pianos and antique vases that can smash, drop, or lose value on the way out.
- pick up crouching teammates, throw them onto shelves, and turn their bodies into weapons or hazards.
- sneak past monsters while dragging sofa-sized loot, then get yanked down a hallway by a ghost as someone drops into an elevator shaft.
- hide under furniture and whisper in proximity voice chat while monsters search, with the dead and living stuck in separate comms.
6Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Players say: Lead a doomed expedition to stop a Paintress who erases people by age, using turn-based tactics and timed dodges and parries. Players like: Story and Characters · Painterly World Design · Memorable Soundtrack
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Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
Apr 24, 2025
In this game, you can…
- dodge or counter basically anything enemies throw at you, including spells, projectiles, cosmic rays, and even buildings.
- spend action points to free-aim in third person and shoot an enemy's weak spot to end a fight early.
- watch the story's yearly death countdown tick toward "33," then head out on a final mission to stop it.
- dodge, parry, and counter enemy attacks in real time during turn-based fights.
- jump over low attacks mid-fight, then land right back into the dodge-and-parry rhythm.
- swap builds to answer a specific encounter, then stack party synergies into a setup that can delete bosses in one turn.
- wander a huge world map packed with secret areas, hidden encounters, and travel methods that unlock with companions.
- walk into higher-level areas and still win if your timing is good enough on dodges, parries, and jumps.
7Fallout: New Vegas
- Players say: As a Courier left for dead, explore the Mojave, build a character, and choose which faction will control New Vegas. Players like: Meaningful Choices · Faction Writing · Replayable Builds
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Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Oct 19, 2010
In this game, you can…
- walk into the Strip with high Luck, win so much at blackjack and slots that every casino bans you for draining them.
- kill major named characters and still finish the main story without the game walling you off from the ending.
- wake up after being shot in the head and immediately start hunting down the person who buried you and stole your delivery.
- pick a side in a town standoff, then have that decision follow you as the wronged faction starts treating you like an enemy.
- play factions against each other until some towns welcome you and others attack on sight based on what you've done for their rivals.
- stumble into an off-path vault, uncover its fake-sacrifice tradition, and learn the residents have been killing people for nothing.
- switch between slow-motion body-part targeting and real-time gunfights, then watch kills play out in cinematic slow motion.
- build a character who can do wildly different jobs, like a laser-weapons medic one run and an explosives-and-melee brute the next.
8DOOM Eternal
- Players say: As the Slayer, battle Hell’s invasion in a fast FPS, switching weapons and killing demons to replenish health, armor, and ammo. Players like: Fast Combat Flow · Heavy Metal Soundtrack · Weapon Variety
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Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.
Mar 19, 2020
In this game, you can…
- set enemies on fire to make armor shards spray out of them while you keep shooting.
- chainsaw a weak demon mid-fight to refill ammo, then immediately spend it on heavy weapons.
- open up the hub and play the original DOOM games from inside this one, alongside secret encounters and replayable challenge rooms.
- glory-kill demons for health.
- hook onto an enemy with a gun, yank yourself to them, blast at point-blank range, then double-dash back into the air.
- double jump, double dash, grab monkey bars, hit jump pads, and wall-climb during the same firefight to keep moving and shooting.
- shoot specific weak points to disable enemy attacks instead of emptying whole magazines into them.
9Resident Evil Requiem
- Players say: FBI analyst Grace investigates a mysterious death while agent Leon pursues Midwest killings through horror and combat. Players like: Grace's Tense Sections · Horror-Action Balance · Raccoon City Return
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Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
Feb 26, 2026
In this game, you can…
- deal with zombies who keep weird routines, like singing, cleaning, turning off lights, or getting mad if you "make a mess."
- collect blood from zombies to craft a formula, then inject it to stop certain enemies from mutating into something worse.
- parry a missile with a hatchet, then keep moving like nothing happened.
- switch between first-person and third-person whenever you want, even mid-play, to see different details and handle fights differently.
- run a brutal opening stretch where you crouch, scout for supplies, and avoid fights because one wrong move gets you killed.
- make every save count with scarce ammo and craftable ink ribbons, sometimes leaving items behind and returning when you have space.
- parry attacks with a hatchet, sharpen it mid-fight, and keep fighting like it's just part of the routine.
- return to the ruined Raccoon City and walk through the post-nuke police station as an explorable area.
- hit a final code choice where you either release Elpis to try saving Leon, or destroy it without knowing if it's a cure or a weapon.
10Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
- Players say: Build a lane-by-lane plant defense against invading zombies, adapting your lineup to changing lawns and enemy types. Players like: Accessible Strategy · Varied Challenges · Memorable Music
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Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
May 5, 2009
In this game, you can…
- play a mode where you control the zombies, choose your horde, and break through cardboard plants to eat the brains.
- create your own custom zombie and sometimes see it wandering around in the actual attacking hordes.
- beat the final boss, then watch the zombies you fought all game perform a full ending music video together.
- plant sunflowers to generate sun, then spend it to build a defensive lineup before the next wave reaches your house.
- fight on lawns that turn into night fog, pool lanes, and a rooftop, forcing you to rethink where every plant goes.
- drop a cherry bomb to instantly erase a packed lane and flip a losing wave into a win.
- replay the whole campaign with the full plant roster, but have three of your plant picks randomly chosen for you.
- smash open vases to reveal hidden plants and zombies, then rebuild your defense on the fly based on what you found.
