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Apocalypse horror games

In these games the world has already ended, or is ending while you play. Most are set after a zombie outbreak, in sealed cities and empty country where a few survivors scavenge for food, ammunition and a way out. What frightens is how little is left: every supply run can be the last, the dead outnumber you, and the people still alive are not always safe either.

The top 30 of 60 apocalypse horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best, 2026

  1. Funeralopolis: Last Days key art: the title over a man in round glasses pressing a bloody hand to his chest, with night-time apartment blocks and tram wires behind him PsychologicalFuneralopolis: Last DaysThe sky over Huta-Grobno turned to ash weeks ago and the radio hints that the end of the world is close. 98% on itch.io (543 ratings)about 1 hFreePC
  2. The Inn-Sanity: a large lit-up hotel at night, wrapped in dark red fog PsychologicalThe Inn-SanityThe store page says the only chance to survive the apocalypse is to understand who you can trust. 96% on Steam (1,669 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  3. Love Alone Death key art: a pale girl with a hair bun sits with closed eyes on the tiled edge of a pool, legs in the water, beside a wall clock, green doors and a potted plant PsychologicalLove Alone DeathHumans have suddenly disappeared from the world, and the few who remain face their final moments together. 98% on Steam (456 reviews)about 30 minFreePC, Mac
  4. Athanasy key art: a giant mass of fused human bodies and arms with a screaming mouth, bone spikes and green runes, beside the game's title Body horrorAthanasyThe surface of the Earth is dead, and the City keeps the remnants of civilisation one step from extinction. 97% on Steam (491 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch
  5. Propagation VR key art: a bloody, clawed hand reaching out of the dark above the red game title Action horrorPropagation VRThe store sets it in a zombie apocalypse brought on by a mysterious virus 94% on Steam (5,920 reviews)about 30 minFreePC, VR
  6. Into the Radius key art: a lone soldier with a rifle stands in a ruined zone under a glowing anomaly and floating debris SurvivalInto the Radius VRThe store calls the zone an unforgiving dystopian place, and Steam players tag it post-apocalyptic. 94% on Steam (11,328 reviews)23 h or morePaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  7. Lakeview Cabin 2 key art: two pixel-art children stand by a stone slab among standing stones in a green forest clearing SurvivalLakeview Cabin 2Episode 4 sends a group of apocalypse survivors across a wasteland where the lakes have dried up. 96% on Steam (592 reviews)14 h or morePaidPC, Mac
  8. Exmortis 2 key art: a grey stone church with a cross on its tower under a blood-red sky, the title in dripping letters Puzzle horrorExmortis 2The Exmortis have devastated the Earth, and you are the only survivor of their worldwide attack. 94% on Newgrounds (2,503 ratings)about 1 hFreeBrowser
  9. No, I'm not a Human key art: four uncanny drawn faces lit in green, a grinning shirtless man, a woman in a scarf, an old man and a woman with a bob, against apartment blocks at night PsychologicalNo, I'm not a HumanA solar anomaly makes daylight deadly, and the world falls further into chaos with each day you spend inside. 93% on Steam (31,588 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  10. Iron Blight key art: a hooded man in a green coat at a wooden doorway, grabbed by pale, bloodied hands SurvivalIron BlightThe world is dead and the state has collapsed; the store tags it post-apocalyptic. 94% on Steam (1,148 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC
  11. You Will (Not) Remain art: a figure in a long coat and a dog on a white rooftop, in 1-bit pixel art, with huge violet tentacle-like shapes looming over a dark city skyline PsychologicalYou Will (Not) RemainThe city around you falls to an eldritch horror while you wait it out alone inside. 92% on Steam (2,552 reviews)about 45 minFreePC
  12. Metro 2033 Redux key art: a soldier in a helmet and gas mask raises a hand against bright light in a snowy, ruined street with a red Cyrillic sign SurvivalMetro 2033 ReduxIn 2013 an apocalyptic event annihilated almost all mankind and left survivors in a new Dark Age 92% on Steam (143,484 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  13. Dread X Collection 2 key art: a skeleton in sunglasses and bow tie plays a brass horn while a tentacle-faced giant looms over a dark forest under stars CosmicDread X Collection 2To the End of Days has you cross a dark city to reach your family as a comet ends the world 94% on Steam (696 reviews)about 8.5 hPaidPC
  14. The Last of Us Part II Remastered key art: Ellie crouches before a flooded, ruined Seattle with a Ferris wheel, while Abby walks with a gun among embers inside Ellie's silhouette SurvivalThe Last of Us Part II RemasteredYears after a fungal pandemic ended the old world, survivors live in walled communities under the constant threat of the infected. 91% on the PlayStation Store (311,000 ratings)24 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation
  15. Metro: Last Light Redux key art: a gas-masked soldier with a rifle and a round shield crouching in the rain before ruined Moscow towers and a domed church Multiple endingsMetro: Last Light ReduxSet in 2034, after a nuclear war, among the remnants of mankind in the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow 91% on Steam (82,615 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  16. My Friend is a Raven key art: Lutum, in a top hat, goggles and beaked mask, holds a small bird on a balcony above a foggy sepia town, beside the scratchy white title PsychologicalMy Friend is a RavenThe world of man has fallen into ruins and everyone who was alive now lies in their grave 91% on Steam (1,332 reviews)about 5 minFreePC
  17. DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain key art: a flooded city under a blood-red sky and a lighthouse, divers drifting among sunken towers toward spiked sea monsters SurvivalDIVE or DIE - Children of RainA post-apocalyptic world drowned by the Black Rain, with a few survivors trying to save what is left of humanity. 92% on Steam (1,471 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC
  18. SCP: Fragmented Minds key art: an armoured soldier in a visored helmet before a warped red and teal void with a dropship and floating rocks SurvivalSCP: Fragmented MindsEarth has been silent since a Near-Extinction Event, and only a few hundred of the base's staff survive. 91% on Steam (1,260 reviews)PaidPC
  19. No More Room in Hell: key art of a crowd of rotting zombies pressing forward, a man with a ruined face and a woman with a torn jaw in front SurvivalNo More Room in HellA tribute to Romero's Dead films: the dead have overrun the city and the few survivors scavenge to get out alive. 90% on Steam (76,858 reviews)FreePC, Linux
  20. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners key art: a survivor with a backpack faces a fog-filled New Orleans street full of walkers SurvivalThe Walking Dead: Saints & SinnersThe living, the dead, disease and famine all threaten the few survivors left in the city. 92% on the Meta Quest store (22,678 ratings)15 h or morePaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  21. WORLD OF HORROR key art: a lighthouse shining under a spiral sky above a Japanese seaside town, in 1-bit pixel art Multiple endingsWORLD OF HORRORThe Old Gods are reawakening, and the run is lost if DOOM reaches 100 percent and the world ends. 90% on Steam (9,883 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch
  22. HR: Human Remains key art: a giant red tentacled demon with a fanged maw looms over stacks of paper in a dark office, with the title in red below Multiple endingsHR: Human RemainsHumanity is on the brink of extinction after losing a war to the demons, and the survivors are eaten, sacrificed or enslaved. 99% on Steam (124 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC
  23. The Consuming Shadow Insanity Edition key art: the title in black letters on a red glow, ringed by dim occult glyphs 2D horrorThe Consuming ShadowOne of the Ancients will be summoned in sixty hours and the world ends unless you banish it in time. 93% on Steam (330 reviews)PaidPC
  24. Duskers art: a beam of light picks out a red A1 hatch on the dark, ribbed hull of a derelict spaceship drifting among wreckage SurvivalDuskersA cataclysm has seemingly stripped the universe of human life, and the corrupted ship logs you recover hint at what happened. 90% on Steam (2,824 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
  25. Night At the Gates of Hell key art: painted zombies shamble through a night graveyard under a purple sky, one huge close-up with worms in its eye socket SurvivalNight At the Gates of HellThe store sets David fighting his way to the truth behind a zombie apocalypse. 90% on Steam (818 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  26. Ground Zero key art: a silver-haired woman in a red beret and goggles raises a pistol on a rainy Korean street at night, with a huge fiery cloud behind her SurvivalGround ZeroSet two months after a meteor impact wiped out South Korea and left it in ruins 88% on Steam (759 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  27. Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days key art: a zombie woman in a torn nightgown leans against a wood-panelled wall beside cracked family photographs SurvivalInto the Dead: Our Darkest DaysWithin days of the outbreak the city falls and its few survivors are left without outside help. 89% on Steam (10,074 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac
  28. Vomitoreum key art: a pale hooded figure in a gas mask with a coiled breathing hose beside dark panels of skeletal figures Body horrorVomitoreumGame Raven Review calls it a story of being one of the last survivors of an apocalypse you could not prevent. 91% on Steam (899 reviews)about 2.5 hPaidPC, Linux
  29. While We Wait Here key art: a pale punk woman in a studded vest rests her head on her hand at a diner table while a red tornado and lightning loom outside the window PsychologicalWhile We Wait HereNews of an impending catastrophe is broadcast and the end of the world looms over everyone in the diner. 89% on Steam (2,505 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  30. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: a man's face with a red eye and no mouth, merged into a microchip, beside the chrome title on blue circuitry PsychologicalI Have No Mouth, and I Must ScreamSet 109 years after AM killed off the population of the world, leaving only its five captives 89% on Steam (4,102 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android

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  2. Psychological horror games530
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  4. Horror puzzle games341
  5. Survival horror games259
  6. 2D horror games254
  7. PS1 horror games233
  8. Stealth horror games180
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  10. Surreal horror games145
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  1. Steam horror games1009
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  5. PC horror games1337
  6. Mac horror games391
  7. Linux horror games261
  8. PlayStation horror games404
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  10. Switch horror games317
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  12. VR horror games69
  13. Browser horror games236
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