Post-apocalyptic games: about the games
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is an open-world tactical third-person shooter in which players help rebuild Washington, D.C. after a devastating pandemic. Firefights take place from cover, where positioning and gadgets decide the outcome, and players build their own agent by looting and crafting gear and choosing skills and Specializations such as the long-range marksman or the demolition expert. Co-op missions with up to three other agents take place while the city reacts to changing weather and faction fights over map control. After reaching max level, players can take on high-stakes endgame missions, intense PvP battles and dynamic world events.
Set in a vast open world, the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone, where anomalies, mutants and rivals stand in your way at every turn. You explore the area, scavenge for supplies and try to survive in a harsh and perilous land. The game keeps evolving through updates and is now reworked and capped off with UPDATE 2.0.
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure set in a dangerous future, where the surface is ruled by the lethal machines of ARC. Players move between this surface and the underground society of Speranza, repairing and upgrading their gear in a personal workshop. Topside they scavenge the remains of a twice-destroyed world, sell loot for coin or craft new equipment from it, and complete quests for Traders. Play solo or in groups of up to three, with weather, enemies and map conditions changing so that no two runs are the same. Four maps are available at launch.
Fallout 4 is an open-world role-playing game from Bethesda Game Studios, in which the player is the sole survivor of Vault 111 and emerges into a world reduced to ash by nuclear war. In a massive world with many locations, characters and quests, the player can join factions, form alliances, or go it alone. The character is built with the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system and chosen Perks shape the playstyle; combat can be slowed with V.A.T.S. or played through real-time gunplay. Players also scavenge, craft and customize items and can build and manage settlements across the Commonwealth.
Metro Exodus is set in 2036, roughly a quarter-century after a nuclear war. You play as Artyom, who leaves the ruins of the Moscow Metro and leads a group of Spartan Rangers eastward in search of a new life across the vast wilderness of post-apocalyptic Russia. The game offers large non-linear levels that mix action, stealth and survival horror, and you scavenge materials in the field to craft and customize your handmade weapons. The story covers an entire year, from spring and summer through autumn into the depths of nuclear winter, and your decisions determine what happens to your companions.
DOOM Eternal is a first-person action game with a single-player campaign in which the player takes on the role of the Slayer to defeat demons across dimensions and prevent the final destruction of humanity. Combat stresses speed and power, and the Slayer has a shoulder-mounted flamethrower, a retractable wrist blade, and upgraded guns, mods, and abilities. Enemies can be finished with glory kills for health, incinerated for armor, or chainsawed for ammo. Battlemode is a 2-versus-1 multiplayer mode in which a fully armed Slayer faces two player-controlled demons in a best-of-five match.
Set in Los Angeles, the game follows a deadly virus that spreads through the city and turns its inhabitants into zombies. The main character has been bitten and infected, yet is more than just immune, and must uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who, or what, they really are. The aim is to survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer. The genre is action adventure.
Back 4 Blood is a cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of Left 4 Dead. Players fight the Ridden, once-human hosts of a deadly parasite, either solo or with up to three friends online in a four-player co-op campaign. The roster includes eight customizable Cleaners, plus lethal weapons and items. Competitive multiplayer lets you play as Cleaners or as the Ridden, with friends or against them. A card system creates a different run each time by letting you craft custom decks, while the Game Director adapts to player actions, including mutated bosses up to 20 feet tall.
SYNDUALITY Echo of Ada is an action PvPvE extraction shooter in which players, together with an AI partner called a Magus, fight xenomorphic creatures and other players for resources. The game is set in 2222, years after a poisonous rain called The Tears of the New Moon wiped out most of humanity. The survivors live in an underground haven, and as a Drifter you collect the rare AO Crystals. On the surface you pilot a CRADLECOFFIN mecha, cooperate with your Magus, and customize and upgrade your mecha in the garage.
A first-person action game set in an open world overrun by a mysterious virus epidemic and hordes of the infected. You roam a devastated city, climbing over obstacles to reach rooftops and remote areas, scavenging for supplies and crafting weapons, fighting gory battles in which the environment and various weapon types can be used to your advantage. At sundown the hunter becomes the hunted, and up to four players can join forces to take on the story campaign together.
CODE VEIN is an action RPG in which the player ventures into a ruined world — a story driven, connected dungeon experience — with a partner, either an AI companion or a friend in co-op multiplayer. The player grows stronger against the Lost by acquiring new gear and levelling up, customizing their Revenant with weapons such as bayonets, axes and spears. Blood Code enhancements and their Gifts boost strength, weaken enemies or unlock new weapon abilities, while Blood Veils serve as blood draining tools. Class can be changed anytime, mixing skills and NPC partners.
Sam and his companions set out on a new journey to save humanity from extinction. Across an open world from Hideo Kojima they travel varied terrains through day and night cycles, facing natural disasters and Timefall, rain that instantly ages whatever it touches. Players build new kinds of infrastructure, use specialized equipment, and deal with otherworldly creatures either by fighting with fabricated weapons or by sneaking past with decoy holograms and silent takedowns. APAS enhancements grant Sam new skills, while the Social Strand System links players around the globe.