The Best Post-apocalyptic Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : HERDLING added at rank #7.
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Saltsea Chronicles (2023)

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It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.

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  • choices
  • mystery
  • cartoony
  • post-apocalyptic
  • lgbtq
  • investigation
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • stylized
  • drama
  • story
  • abstract
  • hand-drawn
  • colourful

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UNDYING (2021)

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78
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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Survive a zombie apocalypse in UNDYING, a heart-wrenching tale of a mother teaching her son to survive. Experience a captivating narrative with smooth gameplay and an enjoyable art style. Or solve cryptic puzzles in Quern: Undying Thoughts, a game that pays homage to the classic Myst series with its grim atmosphere and challenging puzzles.


What we like:
  • Emotional and captivating narrative
  • Smooth gameplay
  • Enjoyable art style
  • Challenging puzzles
  • Homage to classic Myst series
What could be improved:
  • Lack of endgame content
  • Repetitive teaching mechanic
  • Dialogue and subtitle issues
  • Unbalanced story mode

  • survival
  • zombies
  • post-apocalyptic
  • rpg
  • crafting
  • story
  • open-world
  • management
  • multiple-endings
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • cooking
  • inventory
  • cinematic
  • choices

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Ultra Age (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Slash your way through a futuristic Earth overrun with ruthless mutants and powerful robots as Age, a young soldier sent on a mission to prevent the destruction of humankind. Ultra Age is a high-speed character action title co-developed by Next Stage and Visual Dart with Unreal Engine 4.

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  • hack-and-slash
  • spectacle
  • action
  • robots
  • post-apocalyptic
  • character
  • third-person
  • rogue-like
  • pve
  • rpg
  • sword-swinging
  • anime
  • violent
  • sci-fi
  • fight

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HAAK (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Explore the ruins of the once glorious city as Haak, the brave traveler. With retro-futuristic pixel world and hand-drawn graphics, this Metroidvania-style game will keep you hooked, using your hook, dash, and charged slash to uncover hidden rooms and secrets. Enjoy extremely good and fluid platforming, fun mechanics, solid level design and challenges that adapt to your skills. Make meaningful choices to change the game's fate with multiple endings. Join in and become the light that repels the darkness!


What we like:
  • Fun platforming
  • Great combat mechanics
  • Well-designed levels
  • Good controls
  • Engaging story and atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Linear with stingy ability gating
  • Tedious and punishing platforming with dubious checkpoints
  • Inconsistent exploration
  • Poor translation
  • Lack of boss variety

  • platform
  • underground
  • dystopian
  • metroidvania
  • comic
  • post-apocalyptic
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • book
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • combat

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TACTICAL BANDITS (2024)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Dive headfirst into the chaos of a ravaged world, where survival means mastering the art of combat and outsmarting your foes. In this hardcore arcade action game, TACTICAL BANDITS, the remnants of civilization teeter on the brink, and it's up to you to chart a path through the desolation.


  • post-apocalyptic
  • blood
  • 4-player
  • bullet
  • destruction
  • arcade
  • zombies
  • time
  • isometric
  • tactical
  • survival
  • stylized
  • pvp
  • gore
  • violent

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OPUS: Rocket of Whispers (2017)

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Rocket of Whispers is an award-winning post-apocalyptic adventure that follows two survivors on a journey to launch a space burial for the lost souls of their desolate world. Help them search the snowy wasteland for supplies and the courage to say goodbye.

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  • post-apocalyptic
  • narration
  • emotional
  • story
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • atmospheric
  • space
  • colourful
  • exploration
  • anime
  • relaxing
  • rich
  • 2d

17

Remnant: From the Ashes (2019)

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

The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.


  • boss
  • cooperative
  • post-apocalyptic
  • shooter
  • souls
  • tps
  • boss-fight
  • third-person
  • dungeon
  • survival
  • combat
  • action
  • fight
  • difficult

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Super Brawl Rush (2023)

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Super Brawl Rush is a boss rush beat'em up set in the scorched post-apocalyptic lands of the near future. Choose your champion and fight your way between swarms of bloodthirsty thugs, mutants and cultists.

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  • post-apocalyptic
  • 2d
  • beat-em-up
  • rogue-like
  • boss-fight
  • top-down
  • twin-stick
  • cooperative
  • shooter
  • action

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Vengeance Hunters (2024)

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Vengeance Hunters is an adrenaline fueled Neo-Geo hardware developed beat’em’up that lets you and a friend in local co-op fight mutants, zombies, punks, gangsters, lab techs with bombs (you read that correctly), suited mystery men, cyborgs and more across multiple stages, sublevels and secret areas.


  • beat-em-up
  • cartoony
  • post-apocalyptic
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • zombies
  • local
  • arcade
  • retro
  • pixel
  • hand-drawn
  • fight
  • cooperative
  • colourful
  • combat

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1000xRESIST (2024)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.


  • thriller
  • walking-simulator
  • post-apocalyptic
  • cinematic
  • futuristic
  • visual-novel
  • anime
  • multiple-endings
  • experimental
  • psychological
  • sci-fi
  • speculative
  • 3d
  • surreal
  • aliens

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