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

Update : HERDLING added at rank #8.
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UNDYING (2021)

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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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Broken Roads (2024)

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Broken Roads is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in a decaying, post-apocalyptic version of the vast Australian Outback, featuring a genre-redefining morality system. Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your dangerous yet mesmerizing 25+ hour journey across the wilds.


  • rpg
  • post-apocalyptic
  • turn-based
  • classic
  • old-school
  • isometric
  • combat
  • philosophical

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INAYAH - Life after Gods (2025)

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INAYAH – Life After Gods is a thrilling action-platformer with metroidvania elements. Immerse yourself in a story with multiple choices, explore diverse biomes, face more than 20 bosses, and develop your character with a unique progression system.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • hand-drawn
  • metroidvania
  • scroller
  • anime
  • boss
  • cyberpunk
  • fight
  • combat
  • boss-fight
  • futuristic
  • controller-support
  • tech

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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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Remnant: From the Ashes (2019)

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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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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

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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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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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Paradise Lost (2021)

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It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.

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  • martial
  • post-apocalyptic
  • alternate
  • narrative
  • first-person
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • anime
  • fight
  • quick-time-event
  • violent
  • war
  • combat
  • shooter
  • action

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NOAH (2023)

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You love animals and additionally have a messiah complex? Noah is a game for you! Single-handedly build an Ark, gather all the wildlife and protect it from the wicked! Thanks to a coop mode of up to 4 players you can save the world together! Remember to hurry or this will be your last deadline.


  • post-apocalyptic
  • surreal
  • emotional
  • top-down
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • drama
  • visual-novel
  • 2d
  • story
  • simulation
  • pixel
  • psychedelic
  • psychological
  • mystery

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