Apocalypse – Green Media Mediography

Mörk Borg

Pelle Nilsson. Art by Johan Nohr. Free League Publishing and the Stockholm Kartell, 2021. 1–5 players plus a Game Master | Variable | Adult Mörk Borg is a Swedish horror tabletop roleplaying game set in a dying world whose end is prophesied with absolute certainty by two-headed Basilisks whose utterances are peddled among the desperate for

They are Hollows of Desolation

Gordie Murphy. Art by Gordie Murphy. Itch.io, 2021. 1–5 players plus a Game Master | 2 hours+ | Adult They Are Hollows of Desolation is an independent tabletop roleplaying game designed by Gordie Murphy using the d6 Trophy storytelling system developed by Jesse Ross for the Gauntlet. During Hollows, players invent and explore a collapsing

Pandemic: Rising Tide

2-5 players | 45 minutes | Age 8+ Jeroen Doumen and Matt Leacock. Z-Man Games, 2017 Rising tide is a collaborative game where players must work together to build four hydraulic structures, to prevent the North Sea flooding low lying areas in the Netherlands. The game is based on true historical events reflecting the processes

Forbidden Island

Matt Leacock. Art by C. B. Canga. Gamewright, 2010. 2-4 players | 30 minutes | AGE 10+ Forbidden Island is a collaborative game during which players work together to collect four treasures from a fantasy island and escape before the island sinks under the water. Players take turns moving their pawns around the island, which

Garbage Country

The work-in-progress Steam page describes Garbage Country as “a post-apocalyptic exploration sim from the creator of Cloud Gardens and Kingdom: New Lands” in which players “drive across a handcrafted wasteland[,] repel waves of enemy bots in tense tower-defense battles [and] upgrade [their] car to travel further into the forgotten world buried under the dust”. The

Cloud Gardens

From the presskit description: “In Cloud Gardens the player overgrows lo-fi scenes of urban decay and manufactured landscapes. Plant your seeds in the right place to create small overgrown dioramas with hundreds of different items and progress through the stages in six chapters. Discover a dozen different seeds and learn how to make them thrive.

The Walking Dead

Telltale’s The Walking Dead is a narrative point-and-click game set during a zombie apocalypse, but honestly, calling it a zombie game does not do it justice. It is way more about the people, the choices, and the emotional mess you get thrown into. The story is super well written, the characters are complex and believable,

Posthuman Saga

Gordon Calleja. Art by Edu Valls. Mighty Boards & Taverna Ludica Games, 2019. 1–4 players | 90–180 minutes | Age 14+ Game Review by Diana Dörfling Posthuman Saga is a post-apocalyptic adventure game where you take on the role of one of the last human survivors, sent out from the safety of the last human

Snowpiercer (Movie)

Snowpiercer is a 2013 post-apocalyptic movie by Bong Joon-ho based on the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The movie takes place in a fictional near future, in which Earth has completely frozen due to climate change and ecocide. All humankind left survives aboard a single train, the

Snowpiercer (TV series)

Snowpiercer is an American dystopian and post-apocalyptic show based on a non-stop moving train circling the world carrying the remains on the human species onboard. Seven years ago, the entire world became a frozen land of ice and the only thing keeping humanity alive is the “Eternal Engine” of the train. The series tackles the

Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2 is the sequel of the 2018 RTS (Real Time Strategy) game by 11 bit studios in which the player takes the role of a Overseer entitled to administrate a small community in a frozen post-apocalyptic Earth.

Surviving The Aftermath

In Surviving The Aftermath, you manage a colony of refugees in a post-apocalyptic world where natural disasters, bandit attacks and radioactive pollution are constant threats. The resurgence of a modern industrial civilization in your colony is necessary to protect it against a potential future cataclysm. The game reproduces the logic of city builders of increasing

The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film, directed by Roland Emmerich. The story centers Jack Hall, a renowned scientists who studies the planet’s weather patterns. He discovers that climate change will be the cause for a series of extreme weather events usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice

Don’t Look Up

Don’t Look Up is a 2021 American science fiction/comedy film written, produced, and directed by Adam McKay with a celebrity cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande among others. It tells the story of two astronomers attempting to warn humanity about an approaching comet that will

After Earth

After Earth depicts a future where it is no longer safe for humans to live on planet Earth. The movie shows a theme of animal retribution, and that the antropocene -the age of humans- has passed.

Resident Evil Village

Resident Evil Village is a survival horror game, where the 'T-Virus' has resulted in a zombie plague. The game follows an eco-hero, while warning for viruses and bio-organic weapons.

Infest the Rats’ Nest

A thrash/heavy metal concept album by Australian band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. The album deals with severe man-made climate collapse, factory farming, class struggle, and more from a dystopian viewpoint.

The Birds

In this Hitchcock film, birds ferociously and perpetually attack humans in Bodega Bay. It shows an 'animal retribution', and is an iconic reference point for the prospect of ecological apocalypse.

Steamboat Bill Jr.

The famous final scene of Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. depicts a small river town being tarnished by a cyclone. Its major achievement is its relation to climate change without being a product of actual environmental threat.

Reset Earth

Reset Earth aims to show young people the power of science, collaboration, and cooperation in sholving complex global challenges by highlighting the protection of the ozone layer through the Montreal Protocol Treaty.

The Last of Us

The Last of Us is an ecological fiction that tells the story of two survivors in a dystopian world. The game shows both how the dystopia came to be, as well as proposing potential solutions.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the latest original entry in the Zelda series of videogames, which started with The Legend of Zelda (1986) and has grown into an iconic franchise since. While most Zelda games feature environmental themes, such as eternal trees, sacred forests and easily disturbed wildlife, Breath of the

Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds features an unnamed astronaut player character exploring a solar system that is stuck in a 22-minute time loop, resetting after the star goes supernova.[1] Thus, the player is encouraged to learn why by following secrets of an extinct alien race known as the Nomai, who previously visited the solar system thousands of years