Post-apocalyptic games take place after collapse, disaster, war, plague, or other world-ending change. The category fits when rebuilding, scavenging, memory, scarcity, or broken institutions shape the table's choices.
Apocalypse World belongs here when the table wants a world defined by what came after disaster, not just the label on the cover. The award-winning and critically acclaimed game that launched the Powered by the Apocalypse school of rpg design.
Degenesis: Rebirth fits post-apocalyptic because it makes life after collapse, scarcity, or rebuilding part of the core pressure. A 'Primal Punk' post-apocalyptic RPG set 500 years after the Eschaton meteor fall.
A Quiet Year fits post-apocalyptic because it makes life after collapse, scarcity, or rebuilding part of the core pressure. A thought-provoking tabletop RPG where players collaboratively create a post-apocalyptic community struggling to survive over the course of one quiet year.
After the Blast earns this tag by making post-collapse pressure matter during play. A rules-lite post-apocalyptic survival RPG using 2d6 + stat resolution.
Choose Barbarians of the Ruined Earth for post-apocalyptic play when you want a world defined by what came after disaster. A rules‑lite post‑apocalyptic sword‑and‑sorcery game built on The Black Hack.
Broken Shores earns this tag by making post-collapse pressure matter during play. A rules-lite dark fantasy survival RPG using d100 resolution.
Dead Reign belongs here when the table wants a world defined by what came after disaster, not just the label on the cover. A post-apocalyptic horror RPG about surviving the zombie outbreak.
Dreams and Machines fits post-apocalyptic because it makes life after collapse, scarcity, or rebuilding part of the core pressure. A hopeful science-fantasy RPG about surviving the ruins of machine rule while rebuilding communities and futures worth living in.
Choose Fallout for post-apocalyptic play when you want a world defined by what came after disaster. A post-apocalyptic tabletop RPG set in a world devastated by nuclear war, where players navigate a harsh, radioactive wasteland filled with mutated creatures, factions,...
Choose Gamma World for post-apocalyptic play when you want a world defined by what came after disaster. A classic science-fantasy RPG of mutant survivors, ancient tech, and gonzo post-apocalyptic exploration in a world where weirdness is the baseline.
Legacy: Life Among the Ruins earns this tag by making post-collapse pressure matter during play. A post-apocalyptic generational RPG about communities, bloodlines, and the long consequences of what survivors build after collapse.
Long Haul 1983 earns this tag by making post-collapse pressure matter during play. A solo journaling RPG of survival on empty highways.
Mutant Crawl Classics belongs here when the table wants a world defined by what came after disaster, not just the label on the cover. A post-apocalyptic, OSR-inspired game of deadly expeditions into ancient ruins.
Mutant: Year Zero fits post-apocalyptic because it makes life after collapse, scarcity, or rebuilding part of the core pressure. A post-apocalyptic survival RPG using the Year Zero Engine.
Numenera belongs here when the table wants a world defined by what came after disaster, not just the label on the cover. A science-fantasy RPG of discovery, strange civilizations, and impossible technologies so old and powerful they read as magic.
Choose Other Dust for post-apocalyptic play when you want a world defined by what came after disaster. A rules-lite post-apocalyptic RPG set on the Tomb World of Earth, centuries after civilization's collapse.
Outbreak: Undead (2nd Edition) earns this tag by making post-collapse pressure matter during play. Outbreak: Undead (2e) is a survival-horror tabletop RPG focused on realism, resource scarcity, and tough choices.
Polaris RPG belongs here when the table wants a world defined by what came after disaster, not just the label on the cover. A post-apocalyptic underwater survival game where humanity fled to the seas after the surface became uninhabitable.
The Morrow Project fits post-apocalyptic because it makes life after collapse, scarcity, or rebuilding part of the core pressure. A post-apocalyptic RPG about teams waking into a broken future with missions, military structure, and the burden of rebuilding after collapse.
The Mutant Epoch fits post-apocalyptic because it makes life after collapse, scarcity, or rebuilding part of the core pressure. A rules-lite post-apocalyptic RPG using the Outland System.
Choose The Walking Dead Universe for post-apocalyptic play when you want a world defined by what came after disaster. The Walking Dead Universe immerses players in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a relentless zombie outbreak, where survival hinges on difficult choices and the...
The Wildsea fits post-apocalyptic because it makes life after collapse, scarcity, or rebuilding part of the core pressure. A narrative survival-fantasy RPG set on an endless treetop ocean.
Twilight: 2000 belongs here when the table wants a world defined by what came after disaster, not just the label on the cover. A retro-apocalyptic survival RPG using the Year Zero Engine.
Twilight: 2000 earns this tag by making post-collapse pressure matter during play. A post-apocalyptic military survival RPG from Free League.
Choose Vaults of Vaarn for post-apocalyptic play when you want a world defined by what came after disaster. An NSR science-fantasy RPG of crystalline deserts, ancient vaults, and strange civilizations surviving in the shadow of forgotten technologies.