10 Best Apocalyptic Video Games That DON'T Involve Zombies
3. Horizon Zero Dawn
Not many games can boast that they consulted real life anthropologists to craft their environment, but Horizon Zero Dawn did just that. Set around a full millennium after the fall of civilisation, developer Guerilla Games put an immense amount of effort into ensuring their post-apocalypse cultures and settings were as believable as possible - and it paid off.
Horizon Zero Dawn is a beautiful game, with dinosaur-like machines running rampant throughout a vast open world that has contrastingly been reclaimed from humanity and our inventions by nature.
Main character Aloy is an intrepid explorer by nature and necessity - an outcast forced to strike out on her own and uncover the past to save the world, enabling us to explore than many intricacies of the varies locations with her.
Having set the narrative so far into the future post-apocalypse, Horizon Zero Dawn captures a very different feel to every other game on this list, filled with an air of mystery and intrigue into artificial intelligence and human society. That, and you also get to fight robots with a bow and arrow. What more can you ask of a game?