post-apocalyptic dystopia theme
There is a society in which something extraordinary bad has happened to civilization and the survivors must now cope as best they can. Usually this happens because society had a brush with one existential risk or another (cf. theme "existential risk").
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| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ldr2019e4x04 | choice | The story is set in the ruins of a bombed out, gang ridden metropolis. It was made clear that this same fate had befallen most, if not all, of the world. |
| movie: 28 Days Later (2002) | choice | The story follows four survivors of an apocalyptic pandemic as they try to survive in a Great Britain now populated by roving zombies and at least one one band of soldiers hold up in a fortified mansion. |
| movie: Cyborg (1989) | choice | The film is set in a future where a horrible plague had brought civilization as we know it to an end. |
| movie: Neon City (1991) | choice | The story is set in a near-future ecologically destroyed world, and follows a small group of people who attempt to reach a refuge known as Neon City. |
| movie: OBi OBa: The End of Civilization (1985) | choice | The story unfolds in a post-apocalyptic future where a small groups of people live in an isolated vault which is falling apart. |
| movie: Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) | choice | The story is set in the immediate aftermath of a zombie-creating virus having proliferated all over the world. In this desperate future, a small group of survivors were trying to make their way to an offshore safe haven. |
| movie: Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) | choice | The story is set in the immediate aftermath of a virus having proliferated all over the world, leaving not only the entire human and animal population turned to zombies, but also the global environment ravaged. In this desolate future, a group of survivors were trying to stay alive as best they could. |
| movie: The Terror Within (1989) | choice | The story is set in shortly after a biological agent of some kind has suddenly killed off 99% of the world population. It follows a small group of survivors who, with only two months of supplies at best, were terrorized by mutant creatures they referred to as "gargoyles". |
| movie: The Terror Within II (1991) | choice | The story is set in a near future where a weaponized, human-made virus has left almost all world's population dead. Some of last survivors struggle to find a vaccine for the virus while at the same time being besieged by killer mutants. |
| tz1959e5x07 | choice | The story is set ten years after a nuclear war when all that remains of the United States is a scattering of isolated primitive societies. |