Thislist of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works ofapocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massivenuclear war,nuclear holocaust, or crash of civilization due to anuclear electromagnetic pulse.
| Name | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2300 A.D. | 1986 | Role-playing game |
| Aftermath! | 1981 | Role-playing game |
| Ashes 2063 | 2018 | A post-apocalypse themed total conversion for the GZDoom engine |
| Ashes Afterglow | 2021 | The sequel to Ashes 2063 |
| Balance of Power | 1985 | Acomputer strategy game ofgeopolitics during theCold War |
| Blast Corps | 1997 | Nintendo 64 video game |
| Burntime | 1993 | Arole-playing video game for DOS and Amiga |
| DEFCON | 2007 | Areal-time strategy game for Windows, Mac and Linux |
| Fallout series | 1997 (1st) 2018 (latest) | Apost-apocalypticrole-playing video game for several platforms; early games were top down 2D while the last four are 3D; spiritual successor toWasteland |
| Far Cry 5 | 2018 | Anaction-adventurefirst-person shooter game set in the fictional Hope County,Montana that has been taken over by a cult who believe the end of the world is about to occur. Towards the end of the game, radio broadcasts begin hinting that the world outside is in chaos and a nuclear war is imminent. If the resist ending is chosen, nuclear explosions appear around the player suggesting a nuclear holocaust has occurred. |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 2019 | Anaction-adventurefirst-person shooter game standalone sequel ofFar Cry 5, set 17 years after the events of Far Cry 5, where the nuclear exchange known as "the Collapse" devastated the world, survivors attempt to rebuild the community in Hope County. Their efforts are however threatened by the Highwaymen, a roving band of organized bandits led by twin sisters Mickey and Lou. |
| Gamma World | 1978 | A post-apocalyptic role-playing game |
| Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number | 2015 | Atop-down shooter game which is a sequel toHotline Miami; features a nuclear war between theSoviet Union and theUnited States at the end of the game |
| M.A.D. Global Thermonuclear Warfare | 2001 | PC Strategic simulation game released bySmall Rockets |
| Metro 2033 | 2010 | Asurvival horrorfirst-person shooter set in post-apocalypticMoscow |
| Metro Last Light | 2013 | Asurvival horrorfirst-person shooter which is a sequel to Metro 2033 |
| Missile Command | 1980 | Anaction video game which was wildly popular in the 1980s, widely recognized inpopular culture |
| The Morrow Project | 1980 | Role-playing game |
| Neocron | 2002 | A post-apocalypticcyberpunkMMORPG for Windows |
| Norad | 1981 | An action strategy game for the Apple II, where the player defends the United States against a nuclear attack.[9][10] |
| Nuclear Throne | 2015 | A twin-stick shooter roguelike following a group of mutants in a nuclear wasteland |
| Nuclear War | 1989 | A turn-based strategy game for Amiga and DOS |
| NukeWar | 1980 | A turn-based strategy game for Apple II, Commodore 64, and other early home computer systems |
| Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet | 2004 | A post-apocalypticvisual novel |
| Star Ocean: The Last Hope | 2009 | Anaction role-playing video game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 |
| Superpower 2 | 2004 | Areal-time strategywargame |
| Supremacy: The Game of the Superpowers | 1984 | Aboard wargame |
| Theatre Europe | 1985 | Aturn-based strategy video game about a fictional war in Europe betweenNATO and theWarsaw Pact, in which both sides usenuclear andchemical weapons against each other |
| Trinity | 1986 | Aninteractive fiction game examining the futile nature ofnuclear war |
| Trojan | 1986 | Arcade game and platformer set shortly after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, which is now overrun by occultists who are bent on terrorizing the surviving population with psychological and biochemical warfare |
| Twilight: 2000 | 1984 | A role-playing game |
| WarGames | 1984 | A video game based on the game inthe hit movie |
| Warzone 2100 | 1999 | Anopen-sourcereal-time strategy andreal-time tactics hybrid computer game |
| Wasteland | 1988 | A post-apocalyptic role-playing video game |
| Wasteland 2 | 2014 | A post-apocalyptic role-playing game; a sequel toWasteland |
| 60 Seconds! | 2015 | A game where the player helps a family of 4 to survive inside a nuclear bunker |
While society's dread of a nuclear holocaust remained a central theme,Planet of the Apes movies successfully mined other anxieties prevalent in the late 1960s and early 1970s.