The Best Dystopian Games for Playstation 4 - Page 2

Update : Slave Zero X added at rank #4.
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Prison City (2023)

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Nintendo Switch l Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle techno-terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses.


  • dystopian
  • retro
  • 1990s
  • crime-ridden
  • 1980s
  • platform
  • 2d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • scroller
  • capitalism
  • side-scrolling
  • cinematic
  • sci-fi
  • pixel
  • action

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Orten Was The Case (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.


  • manipulation
  • time
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • metroidvania
  • 2.5d
  • humor
  • conspiracy
  • time-management
  • dystopian
  • choices
  • mystery
  • detective
  • dark
  • open-world

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Billy 101 (2023)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Meet Billy, a robot who is tired of his work on the production lines, who then decided to blow up everything and everyone in order to make his own choices.


  • robots
  • platform
  • 2d
  • dystopian
  • scroller
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • futuristic
  • cute
  • retro
  • sci-fi
  • conversation

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Gearshifters (2021)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Steer, drift, spin, smash and gun through waves of enemy vehicles. Go to war against extreme machine bosses. Build up and tune your tactical loadout of car mods, defences and weaponry for each treacherous transport mission. Drive. Destroy. Get Paid. Upgrade!


  • rogue-like
  • dystopian
  • driving
  • post-apocalyptic
  • performance
  • perma-death
  • shoot-em-up
  • vehicle
  • scroller
  • racing
  • bullet-hell
  • top-down
  • procedural
  • combat
  • boss

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Deathverse: Let It Die (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4

In 2026, a seismic natural disaster known as the Earth’s Rage sent the world into upheaval. Now, several hundred years later... The inhumanely violent survival reality show Death Jamboree was born to satiate the devastated human heart. Will you be the last one standing?


  • royale
  • spectacle
  • steampunk
  • hack-and-slash
  • dystopian
  • post-apocalyptic
  • survival
  • third-person
  • violent
  • battle
  • fight
  • pvp
  • futuristic
  • full-scale
  • swordplay

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We Happy Few (2018)

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Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 4

From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.


  • survival
  • stealth
  • dystopian
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • narrative
  • alternate
  • story
  • combat

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Flying Tank (2023)

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early access PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X/s

Get into your Flying Tank and shoot 'em up like it's the good old days! Kill strange bosses, drop bombs from above and build an arsenal of fun, powerful weapons. Reclaim the stolen Earth - alone or with a friend - in a rich action-packed side-scrolling shmup!


  • cooperative
  • shoot-em-up
  • scroller
  • bullet
  • bullet-hell
  • steampunk
  • time
  • dystopian
  • hand-drawn
  • anime
  • post-apocalyptic
  • local
  • sci-fi
  • rogue-like
  • aliens

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The Surge (2017)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One

Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.


  • souls
  • sci-fi
  • boss
  • rpg
  • dystopian
  • combat
  • horizontal
  • robots
  • crafting
  • arpg
  • action
  • boss-fight
  • fight
  • vertical
  • futuristic

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The Dark World: KARMA (2023)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows

This is a first-person story-driven psychological horror game. Delve into this dark and strange world with an investigation officer from Roam to find traces of lost memories and fulfill your destiny.


  • horror
  • dystopian
  • walking-simulator
  • psychedelic
  • immersive
  • psychological
  • experimental
  • vision
  • thriller
  • cold
  • multiple-endings
  • lore
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • 3d

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Low Story (2021)

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Low gets thrown from the top floor of a building, and he falls into the dark world. After his fall, Low wants to return but he finds the door locked by Red One The World Keeper. Thus, Low starts looking for the key hoping revenge.


  • hacking
  • 2.5d
  • character
  • scroller
  • dystopian
  • platform
  • multiple-endings
  • perma-death
  • action-adventure
  • sci-fi
  • dark
  • surreal
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • action

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