10 Best Post-Apocalyptic Games To Play Until Fallout 4 Arrives

8. Metro 2033 & Last Light

Where many post-apocalyptic games tend to be expansive in terms of scope and how much they reveal of the ruined world, the Metro games are the full-on opposite, confining the action mostly to the dark, claustraphobic corridors of the Moscow Metro system. Metro 2033 takes place after a nuclear war, as a result of which Moscow became an irradiated wasteland, forcing people to move underground and live in disused subway stations. You control Artyom, a young man whose home station of Exhibition comes under attack from mutants called the Dark Ones, and who must leave it for the first time in his life to seek help from the famed Polis Rangers. Both this and and sequel Last Light completely shred up any romantic notions about post-apocalyptic life. Yes, there's a great sense of camaraderie and togetherness in the stations, which is depicted poignantly and atmospherically, but this world is cruel, cold and almost unliveable. The metro system is so suffocating, that even upon death people never quite leave, doomed to exist as shadowy ghosts in its labyrinthine corridors. Similarity to Fallout 4: Metro is a far more linear, story-driven game. Also, if we're being pedantic, Fallout is more of a post-post-apocalyptic game, in which society is rebuilding itself after the apocalypse. Metro takes place when humanity's still struggling to survive in the immediate aftermath of an apocalypse, so life is definitely tougher down in those labyrinthine subways.