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The 10 best DOS post-apocalyptic games

The 10 best DOS post-apocalyptic games, as the players of dos.games rate them. Fallout leads the list, ahead of Earth 2140 and Strife.

Every game on the list plays in your browser, with nothing to install. The order comes from players' ratings and real play time, so it moves as people play.

Updated How the lists are ranked

  • 11DOS post-apocalyptic games in the archive
  • 10 of 10Play in your browser
  • 3.6Score of #1, out of 5

  1. 1. Fallout

    1997 · Interplay Productions · Role-playing (RPG)

    3.61 rating

    Leave Vault 13 with a leather jacket, 10mm pistol, and 150 days to replace a failed Water Chip before your home dies of thirst in Interplay's 1997 RPG Fallout.

    Play now: FalloutAbout the game

  2. 2. Earth 2140

    1997 · TopWare Programmy Sp. z o.o. · Strategy / tactics

    3.61 rating

    It's the year 2140, earth is almost completely destroyed after numerous wars and environmental catastrophes, and the people primarily live underground.

    Play now: Earth 2140About the game

  3. 3. Strife

    1996 · Rogue Entertainment · Action

    3.3No ratings yet

    In the distant future, the Earth is ruled by a group of people who call themselves "The Order".

    Play now: StrifeAbout the game

  5. 5. The Terminator: Rampage

    1993 · Bethesda Softworks LLC · Action

    3.3No ratings yet

    Terminator: Rampage is Bethesda's fourth Terminator-licensed game, and is a standard first-person corridor crawler.In Rampage, the corrupt defense system SkyNet again finds itself overrun by the human Resistance, and again manages to send a robot into the past to preserve its future existence.

    Play now: The Terminator: RampageAbout the game
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  1. Primal Rage — playable in the browserTime Warner Interactive · Action · 1995Not played yet
    3.2
    How this score is built
    SignalAdds
    Player ratings0% · no ratings yet0.00
    Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings3.20
    Blended rating3.20
    Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50+0.00
    Score3.2

    Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.

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What is the best DOS post-apocalyptic game?

Fallout (1997, Interplay Productions) is the best DOS post-apocalyptic game by our players' ratings, ahead of Earth 2140 and Strife. The ranking follows players' ratings and real play time, so it changes as people play.

Can I play these DOS post-apocalyptic games online?

Yes. 10 of the games on this list play free in your browser on dos.games, with no download and no emulator to set up. Press Play on any of them; your progress can be saved.

How many DOS post-apocalyptic games are there on dos.games?

11. This list ranks the best 10 in full and the next ones below them; the catalogue has every one, with filters for year, studio and more.

Which year had the most great DOS post-apocalyptic games?

1997. 3 of the games on this list came out that year: Fallout, Earth 2140 and KKND: Krush Kill 'N Destroy.

How is this list ranked?

With the same score as our Best DOS Games ranking: players' ratings, pulled toward the archive's own rating while a game has few of them, plus a small bonus for the games people actually keep playing. No editor and no sponsor decides a place.