
Fallout 4
Explore a ruined open world, shape your own character and story, and survive the Commonwealth your way.
Still thinking about Fallout 76 and its brutal and dark tone? These games could fill that gap nicely.
Build an underground Vault, keep your Dwellers alive and oddly cheerful, and send the brave ones up into the Wasteland for loot. A relaxed little management game with a wicked sense of humor, perfect in short sessions, and you never have to spend a cent.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark
7 Days to Die is a survival sandbox in a ruined land full of the undead, blending shooting, tower defense, and role-playing. You loot, craft, grow skills through perks and books, and build a fort to hold through zombie hordes. It rewards planning, building, and playing with friends across a large, rough world.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Brutal, Dark, Tense
Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with your robot companion, gather resources, and maintain the Atlas network in hardcore VR, where order is a matter of choice.
Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
A hardcore top-down survival RPG in a post-apocalyptic Soviet wasteland. Scavenge bunkers and irradiated swamps, build guns from found parts, earn a reputation among Zalesye's survivors, and dig into the mystery of the Mist. Ammo is scarce, mutants are fast, and every expedition is a decision about how much you are willing to risk.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
A 1-10 player co-op survival game in a nuclear exclusion zone. Raid radioactive ruins for loot, build out your bunker, hunt artifacts and try not to lose your mind. Dark, tense and best shared with friends.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you. Fight heat, thirst and hordes of madmen, build a settlement from nothing, craft hover vehicles to cross the desert, and pick a side in a faction war over the last outposts. Solo or with friends, every procedurally generated wasteland plays out differently.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Dark, Tense
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
Five years after a nuclear disaster, a quarantine zone sits in the English countryside, and you wake up inside it with no memory. Atomfall sends you scavenging, bartering and talking your way through cults, caves and rogue agencies, piecing together leads instead of following quest markers. Every choice shapes which of several endings you reach.
Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
Once Human is an odd post-apocalyptic survival game where you join friends against monsters, build your own territory, and uncover what Stardust wants. You watch food and water for Sanity, hunt bosses for powerful loot, and shape guns with parts, perks, and upgrades.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Brutal, Dark, Tense
A top-down extraction shooter in a pixel-art wasteland. Raid procedurally generated maps, loot what you can carry, and get out alive. Between runs, build up a bunker, mod your guns and pick a faction. Solo, tense, and endlessly replayable: every raid plays out differently.
Brutal, Dark, Tense
Seventeen years after the bombs, Hope County, Montana has gone green in the strangest way: flowers over ruins, raiders in the ruins. Lead survivors against the Highwaymen and their leaders, the Twins, upgrade your homebase, craft wild weapons and bring a friend along in two-player co-op.
Also in Co-op · Brutal, Dark, Tense
An open-world survival shooter where every gun is forged by your own hands and every raid can end in riches or an empty holster. Build a shelter into a town, tame mutant beasts, and run procedurally generated instances for loot you keep only if you walk out alive. Solo or with friends.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Dark, Tense

Explore a ruined open world, shape your own character and story, and survive the Commonwealth your way.

Leave the vault behind and shape your own path through a grim, story-driven wasteland where every choice marks you.

Shot in the head and left in a desert grave, you crawl out and walk to New Vegas to find who did it.

Step out of Vault 101 into the ruined Capital Wasteland to find your father, and stay for everything else: a grim open world, choices that actually…

Eighty years after the bombs, your village is dying and the cure lies somewhere out in the wasteland.

A grim retro role-playing classic where every decision shapes your journey through a ruined California, with multiple endings waiting at the finish.

Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with…

Scavenge the wasteland for parts, build your own guns and push a little further each time, knowing ammo runs out faster than mutants do.

Raid irradiated ruins, hunt artifacts and keep your bunker standing while your mind holds on.

A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike.

Raid a pixel-art wasteland, grab what you can carry, and make it back to your bunker before the wasteland takes it all.

Scavenge the wasteland for parts, build your own guns and push a little further each time, knowing ammo runs out faster than mutants do.

Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with…

Craft weapons, raise a town from a shelter and raid for loot you keep only if you make it out alive, alone or with friends.

Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America.

Loot, gear up and cross a hostile border zone, where every run into Vostok is permadeath and the best loot sits behind the worst risks.

Lead Delta Team across a vast post-apocalyptic open world, surviving, crafting and fighting to rebuild what the virus destroyed.

Scavenge, build and fight your way through a grim open world, alone or with friends at your side.

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.

Raid irradiated ruins, hunt artifacts and keep your bunker standing while your mind holds on.

Five years after a nuclear disaster, a quarantine zone sits in the English countryside, and you wake up inside it with no memory.

Rewind to the week before the apocalypse, stockpile supplies, upgrade your RV and survive the frozen road in runs that play out differently every…

Welcome to the Unknown Research Consortium (U.R.C.), where you’re tasked with conducting reconnaissance missions, terminating unknown threats…

Scavenge the wasteland for parts, build your own guns and push a little further each time, knowing ammo runs out faster than mutants do.

Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with…

Rewind to the week before the apocalypse, stockpile supplies, upgrade your RV and survive the frozen road in runs that play out differently every…

Craft weapons, raise a town from a shelter and raid for loot you keep only if you make it out alive, alone or with friends.

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

Instead of saving the world, worry about what to eat and how not to get a dose of radiation or not to freeze in changing conditions.

Loot, gear up and cross a hostile border zone, where every run into Vostok is permadeath and the best loot sits behind the worst risks.

Explore a grim post-apocalyptic open world, craft your gear, and take on PvE raids and PvP zones with other players.

Gather, craft and fortify a base, then push back against the empire in first person, alone or with friends.

Scavenge, build and fight your way through a grim open world, alone or with friends at your side.

Raid irradiated ruins, hunt artifacts and keep your bunker standing while your mind holds on.