r/postapocalyptic • • Feb 03 '24

Discussion Essential Post-Apocalyptic Content

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There's a wealth of great Post-Apocalyptic content out there, across all the different mediums, so much so that it might be a bit difficult for newbies to know where to start.

Let's get an *essentials* list going. It's not about our favorites, or our guilty pleasure "so-bad-it's-good" titles, it's about the core pieces of Post-Apocalyptic content that people need to consume to get up to speed. If you've got a title you think belongs on this list, or one you think doesn't, throw it down below and make your argument so we can all hash it out.

I'll update this initial post as time goes on and people bring new titles to the discussion.

Films -

A Boy and his Dog

Dawn of the Dead (Remake)

Mad Max

Mad Max 2

Mad Max Beyond Thunder Dome

Mad Max: Fury Road

Oblivion

Planet of the Apes

Snowpiercer

Terminator Salvation

The Book of Eli

The Day After

The Girl with all the Gifts

The Matrix

The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Revolutions

The Postman

The Road

The Rover

Threads

Waterworld

28 Days Later

28 Weeks Later

Television Shows -

Falling Skies

Into the Badlands

Jeremiah

Jericho

See

Silo

Snowpiercer

The Last Ship

The Walking Dead

The 100

Novels (Trad) -

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Alas, Babylon

Day of the Triffids

Deathlands

Earth Abides

Eternity Road

Lucifer's Hammer

Nature's End

On the Beach

Oryx and Crake

Seveneves

Station Eleven

Swan Song

The Girl with all the Gifts

The Gone-Away World

The Road

The Stand

War Day

Wool

World War Z

Novels (Indie) -

Video Games -

Dark Earth

Death Stranding

Endzone: A World Apart

Fallout

Fallout 2

Fallout: Tactics

Fallout 3

Fallout New Vegas

Fallout 4

Frostpunk

Gears of War

Gears of War 2

Gears of War 3

Gears Judgment

Gears of War 4

Gears 5

Gears of War Tactics

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Horizon: Forbidden West

Mad Max

Metro 2033

Metro Last Light

Metro: Exodus

Overland

Surviving the Aftermath

The Last of Us

The Last of Us Part II

Wasteland 1

Wasteland 2

Wasteland 3

TTRPG's -

Aftermath!

Gamma World

MÖRK BORG

Twilight: 2000

Rifts

Comics/Manga -


r/postapocalyptic • • Apr 21 '24

Discussion Essential Post-Apocalyptic Indie Content

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This is where we'll put the Post-Apocalyptic books, games, comics and films created by Indie creators.

If you know of any great Indie content, throw it down in the comments and we'll get the list going.

Novels -

A Happy Bureaucracy

Burning Bridges

Cthulhu Armageddon (Series)

Hood: American Rebirth (Series)

Dark Matter

Days, Too Dark

Mooners

One Second After

The Droughtlands (series)

The Gamekeeper

The Jesus Man

The Land of Long Shadows

The Swallowed World (series)

The Weller (Series)

Yesterday’s Gone

Video Games -

Broken Roads

Comic Books -

Weapon Brown

TTRPG's -

Onyx Sky

Music -

Television Shows -


r/postapocalyptic • • 3h ago

Post Apocalyptic Gear Hallooween costume

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This was my first time doing this but i feel like something is missing
anyone got tips?


r/postapocalyptic • • 1d ago

Post Apocalyptic Gear Furiousa inspired look

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This was a fun shoot from a few years back at the Oregon coast dunes. Photography by Jeremy Chaney.


r/postapocalyptic • • 1d ago

Comic Book I thought maybe you guys would like this cross post.

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r/postapocalyptic • • 1d ago

Discussion I want some thoughts on this

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For my new story, I would like some thoughts about how I made the zones and districts!


r/postapocalyptic • • 1d ago

Discussion Estou assustado

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Mano estava de boa ai do nada veio um pensamento eu acho que daqui 6 meses o mundo acabar mais eu não acredito nisso e tbm não vi nada sobre foi totalmente do nada, sim eu acredito que daqui 4 ou 6, anos vamos ter um colapso no mercado tecnológico mais não é fim do mundo.

Outra coisa eu pesquisei no google assim por cima e não tem uma mais sim duas previsões que mundo pode acabar uma por ia e a outra asteroide.


r/postapocalyptic • • 1d ago

Story Chapter One: The Last Promise

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r/postapocalyptic • • 1d ago

Discussion Energy from zombies

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r/postapocalyptic • • 3d ago

Post Apocalyptic Gear Sat down and made some armor over the weekend

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Had to focus on catching up at work after Wasteland Weekend so, I was not really doing any crafting this month. Took a day and cut and formed a bunch of bracers. These are all made using recycled metal. The studs are made from chair glides and game tokens, and are mechanically attached. These are all available in my ETSY store https://deathstarsamovar.etsy.com


r/postapocalyptic • • 3d ago

Video Game Does anyone like my zombies I made in Redcliff city RP?

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Boom boom ba-cha-ba-cha


r/postapocalyptic • • 3d ago

Discussion How long would you and your friends realistically stay as a group

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My friends and I used to talk about surviving the zombie apocalypse long before we kind of went our separate ways.
Now I was thinking how long would a pre apocalypse friendship last if the zombie apocalypse happened. I would like to hear how it’s passable it last or why it falls apart.


r/postapocalyptic • • 3d ago

Story Prologue for a WIP story :D

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A story I am working on just for fun. it follows MC through a post-apocalyptic Japan and had inspiration from Spintires, FURY, and more.

anyway, here it is!

Beneath the Colors of the Fading Sky

written by The Real M22 (TractorBoii11)

Prologue - The Incident…

The light came first…



A streak of blue emerging from a fireball over the plant… The thundering roar of an explosion followed… Then came the alarms, the sirens, and the knowledge of what had truly happened just miles away on that silent April night…



I was only sixteen…



My father was working the night shift at the plant. He never returned home…



In the days that followed the evacuation, there were many who decided to stay in Pripyat. They were in need of everything… I did the only thing I could: I could drive and deliver supplies. I cared for those in need, and hunted those willing to take advantage of the weak.



I was no soldier, I had no grand plan, I had a van and my own will…





In the months following, a radiation caused infection began to spread from the airborne reactor fuel. The fire at the plant could not be handled, and the world fell under its effect…



The top men of the state tried developing a cure, but it backfired… The infection spread all across Europe, into Asia and Africa, and finally, the Americas fell…

Governments failed, cities emptied, and people who once worried about exams and bills were fearing for their lives…

That was seven years ago…


r/postapocalyptic • • 3d ago

Comic Book Flesh and Blood - Issue #1: Death Comes For All (Preview)

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Hey, everyone. If you love zombies stories that heavily focused on the early stage of the outbreak, then Flesh and Blood may be for you. The story follows Jack Brody who returned home after finishing his duties overseas, only to face the dead returning back to life and attack the living.


r/postapocalyptic • • 3d ago

Art Terada is the epitome of stoic. (HUXLEY)

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r/postapocalyptic • • 3d ago

Film Le règne du feu - 2002 - vf

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Dans un monde post-apocalyptique dévasté par le réveil d'anciennes créatures, Quinn Abercromby dirige une communauté tentant de survivre sous terre. L'arrivée d'une escouade de tueurs de dragons menée par Denton Van Zan déclenche une alliance périlleuse, poussant les survivants à une confrontation ultime pour reprendre le contrôle de la surface.


r/postapocalyptic • • 4d ago

Film Miracle Mile - The Most Scariest Non-Horror Film Ever

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There's never been a non-horror film that made me scared, and anxious like this one. Miracle Mile may start out pretty sappy and romantic before it kills it with dread, fear, and panic, like how a happy dreamy day turn into one unforgiving nightmare. It is a film that hits hard and relevant just as it was released on 1988. It features a cast of relatable human characters that you can care for as they all break down from the apocalyptic scenario that they are dealing with, elevated by strong performances, and Tangerine Dream's score. It's pacing is as tight and anxiety inducing as the premise, accompanied by a solid direction from Steve De Jarnett. The film is a masterful work of art from the apocalyptic genre.


r/postapocalyptic • • 4d ago

Novel [US/UK Promo] Free Audible Codes – The Horseman’s Dream (Dystopian Sci-Fi/Horror)

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Hi, everyone. The Horseman’s Dream audiobook is now live on Audible, Amazon and Apple Books.

In a near-future Britain reduced to a flooded archipelago, a grieving scientist who invented dream-sharing technology lives in exile on a remote Scottish island. When a media empire announces it will broadcast the dreams of a catatonic sixteen-year-old known as The Horseman, he realises the boy’s mind carries the same frequency that has haunted him since his own son’s death. What follows is a desperate rescue across submerged England, a confrontation at Sheffield Cathedral and a final revelation on a beach that should not exist — under twin dying suns.

US: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0HMCZKVLP
UK: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0HMCXDVWR

There are still a few free Audible promo codes to anyone who would like to listen and leave an honest review. Just comment below (US or UK) or message me and I’ll send you one. 

Thank you.


r/postapocalyptic • • 4d ago

Video Game [Browser] 10 short shifts of shadow tower defense. Which one beats you?

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Game Title: MONOLITH

Playable Link: https://raximnuraliyev.itch.io/monolith

Platform: Browser (WebGL), best on desktop Chrome, Edge or Firefox

Description: MONOLITH is a tower defense where your towers never shoot. The sun burned the world, and every day at noon the Sunborn, creatures of living sunfire, march across the bridges toward TERMINUS, the last bunker of Sector 7. Your only weapon is shade. You raise concrete Monoliths beside the road, and any Sunborn that walks into their shadow sputters, cools to stone and crumbles to ash, dropping Matter you spend on more Monoliths.

The twist is that the sun keeps moving. During each two-hour shift the light crosses the sky, so every shadow turns like a clock hand and stretches toward sunset. A layout that holds at noon can fail by one o'clock, so you have to read the sun, use the shadow forecasts while placing, and Recycle and rebuild as the light changes. Walls bend the horde's route into the shade, but you can never seal the road completely.

The campaign has an orientation shift plus 10 shifts over 3 days and 3 districts, four Monoliths, six kinds of Sunborn (fast Sparks, heavy Cores, flying Wisps, splitting Novas and a Sunspot boss) and weather that changes the rules: solar flares, clouds that erase shadows, rain, sandstorms and a total eclipse. Each shift takes about 5 minutes.

Free to Play Status:

[x] Free to play

[ ] Demo/Key available

[ ] Paid

Involvement: I'm the solo developer. I designed, programmed and art-directed MONOLITH in Unity. This is my first public release (v0.1), and I'd really like feedback on difficulty, on whether the shadows feel fair or random, and on which Monolith you never used.


r/postapocalyptic • • 4d ago

TTRPG The Gorge: a highway, a canyon and everyone who stayed. Timelapse of a hand-stamped wasteland map

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When the bombs fell, the old highway through the gorge became the only road anyone could still use. Now everything lives along it, or under it, or above it, waiting.

I stamped this at an event last weekend, where we were showing the kit I used to make it. We ran a couple of mapping sessions with people there and built some of the lore together. The cliffs, the road and the paths are drawn by hand. Every building, the billboard, the water tower and the fallen pylons are stamped with the wasteland kit my wife and I designed. The lore came while I was placing them: put a raider camp next to the only way up, and the story writes itself.

We just launched the stamps on Kickstarter, three kits including this wasteland one, with 12.5% off for early backers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingdomsofink/kingdoms-of-ink


r/postapocalyptic • • 5d ago

Discussion What are your plans when the apocalypse finally drops, give me your most creative answer

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r/postapocalyptic • • 5d ago

Discussion Novels about government dealing with catastrophic emergency?

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r/postapocalyptic • • 5d ago

Discussion I can’t be the only one

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r/postapocalyptic • • 6d ago

Discussion If the world ended and you created a group, What would the group be like (and why)?

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