A vault dweller, a ghoul and a knight in the wasteland; the game's tone caught exactly.
Joel and Ellie across a fungus-ravaged America; the video game adaptation that worked.
A butcher's apartment block in a post-apocalyptic France; Jeunet and Caro's bedspring rhythm.
The rage virus three decades on, an island community and a boy's journey to the mainland; Boyle and Garland reunite.
An empty London and rage-infected fast zombies; Boyle on digital video.
Every male mammal dies except Yorick and his monkey; sixty issues of what comes next.
Rick Grimes wakes in a hospital to the zombie apocalypse; 193 issues in black and white.
A travelling Shakespeare troupe twenty years after a flu killed the world.
A superflu kills 99% of humanity and the survivors gather in Boulder and Las Vegas; King's epic.
A father and son push a shopping cart through a burned America; the ending is why people read it.
A survival sandbox where the real danger is the other players; the ArmA mod that started the genre, finished as its own game.
Three large maps, a proper ending and far fewer bugs; the Zone game to start with.
A brain in a jar and the Big Empty; the funniest thing Obsidian wrote.
The Aurora crosses Russia season by season; the Metro that leaves the metro.
The Zone rebuilt in Unreal 5, finished in Ukraine during a war.
Artyom back in the tunnels and out into a ruined Moscow surface.
Aloy to a ruined San Francisco; the sequel with underwater machines.
Aloy hunts robot dinosaurs in a post-apocalyptic America; Guerrilla's open world.
Moscow's survivors in the metro tunnels; the Russian post-apocalypse from Glukhovsky's novel.
The Zone around the reactor, anomalies and artefacts; the Ukrainian shooter from Roadside Picnic.
Complete the Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel video game, a post-apocalyptic role-playing adventure.
Complete the tactical role-playing game Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, set in the post-apocalyptic Fallout universe.
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