The best post-apocalyptic & survival films, series, games & books

Explorers use a newly discovered wormhole to push beyond the limits of human space travel on an interstellar voyage.

Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android on a treacherous journey.

A hacker joins underground insurgents and discovers civilization has already fallen to the machines now ruling the earth.

A woman answers a housekeeping ad only to find herself inside a high-rise plagued by disappearances and a possible Satanic cult.

Two colleagues — sole survivors of a plane crash — must overcome old grudges to make it off a deserted island alive.

An insomniac and a soap salesman channel primal aggression into underground fight clubs that spiral dangerously out of control.

Dr. Kelson enters a new relationship whose consequences could change the world as they know it — and can't escape what follows.

Captain Wright's wedding-trip squad encounters a murderous cartel in Mexico and must fight their way to survival.

Two brothers raised as soldiers after losing their mother to a supernatural force spend their lives hunting the paranormal evil that took her.

A sheriff's deputy waking from a coma to a zombie-overrun world must navigate both the undead and the far more dangerous living survivors.

Sixteen contestants compete for one million euros in Siberia — no food, no communications, no civilization for hundreds of kilometres.

Cash-strapped players accept an invitation to compete in children's games for a tempting prize — with deadly high stakes.

A woman forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship — daily existence is itself an act of survival.

A hundred juvenile delinquents are sent to a radioactive, long-abandoned Earth to test whether the ground is survivable again.

An aspirational alternate world where NASA stayed a priority — told through the lives of astronauts, engineers, and their families.

The world's weakest hunter is slaughtered in a high-ranking dungeon, then returns with a System that grows stronger from every near-death encounter.

A photorealistic post-apocalyptic 3rd-person adventure where two survivors must depend on each other across a devastated America.

Play as Lee Everett — a convicted criminal given a second chance — protecting a child in a world devastated by the undead.

Legendary characters with powerful abilities team up and battle for fame and fortune on the fringes of the Frontier.

Systems engineer Isaac Clarke is stranded on the USG Ishimura after Necromorphs slaughter the crew — survival means fighting his way out.

Dropped onto a large map with dozens of strangers, each match is a fight to be the last player alive.

Set five years after the first game, Ellie's story pushes through a broken world where survival carries a brutal emotional cost.

Task Force 141 fights through a modern alternate-reality world war in the sequel to Modern Warfare 2.

No plot, no backstory — two teams face pure tactical combat, with survival the only objective that matters.

At 17, Charlotte Davis has already lost more than most people do in a lifetime — and is learning to survive herself.

Boys stranded on an uninhabited island attempt to govern themselves — and reveal how fragile civilization actually is.

A teenage boy's plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness, leaving him alone with only what he carried to survive.

A father and son walk a burned-out Earth, carrying each other and a quiet, stubborn reason to keep moving.

A boy spends a year living alone in the mountains and reaches the hard realisation that he needs other people after all.

Three children — each fleeing a different historical catastrophe — share one urgent mission: escape.

The Gladers escape the Maze only to face the Scorch — a burned-out wasteland they must cross in two weeks or die.

The bestselling conclusion to a near-future trilogy, packed with a sense of wonder about humanity's long-run chances.