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* ''VideoGame/MiasmaChronicles:'' America has been destroyed by a savage force known as The Miasma, which swirls around attacking both nature and technology. Your mission: find the source of the Miasma, and stop it.
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* This is the case with the ''VideoGame/UFOAfterblank''. The first one, ''VideoGame/UFOAftermath'', begins about a year after an alien attack that has killed 70-80% of humanity. The sequel, ''VideoGame/UFOAftershock'', is set after the '''bad ending''' of the first game. By the time of ''VideoGame/UFOAfterlight'', things get so bad on Earth that humanity has to leave it outright and you control the colonists on Mars.

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* This is the case with the ''VideoGame/UFOAfterblank''. The first one, ''VideoGame/UFOAftermath'', begins about a year after an alien attack that has killed 70-80% of humanity. The sequel, ''VideoGame/UFOAftershock'', is set after the '''bad ending''' of the first game. By the time of ''VideoGame/UFOAfterlight'', things get so bad on Earth that game, with humanity has reduced to leave it outright whatever population will fit in the sky-city Laputas. ''VideoGame/UFOAfterlight'' shows that the aliens also relocated some humans to Mars to terraform and you control the colonists on Mars.colonize it.
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* ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'' is the continuation of ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' set 17 years after nuclear bombs drop down on the country, proving that [[TheExtremistWasRight Joseph Seed was right about the apocalypse]]. The game is now set in a Mad Max-esque future [[spoiler: and AllJustADream]].

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* ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'' is the continuation of ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' set 17 years after nuclear bombs drop down on the country, proving that [[TheExtremistWasRight Joseph Seed was right about the apocalypse]]. The game is now set in a Mad Max-esque future [[spoiler: and AllJustADream]].future.
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* ''VideoGame/JiuXiao'' takes place after a cataclysm wiped out the surface world, courtesy of the Heaven's Wheel being prematurely activated.
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* Every playthrough of ''VideoGame/KingdomsReborn'' begins with a text blurb saying that a big freeze wiped out most of civilisation, so everyone has to start again from the dark ages.

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* ''VideoGame/TwentyTwentySeven'' features this in the [[spoiler:epilogue for the Omar ending, after they nuke most of the planet]].



* ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]'' (''Dark Conflict'' in Europe) takes place months after a devastating meteor shower strikes the planet and kills off nearly 90% of the human population. Roaming bandits, deserting soldiers, low food supplies, and selfish civilians are just some of the hazards of the new world.



* ''Franchise/DeusExUniverse'':
** ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' takes place 20 years after the Great Collapse triggered by JC Denton, yet in that time, civilization has returned to its pre-collapse level. See ApocalypseNot.
** The GameMod for ''Deus Ex'', ''VideoGame/TwentyTwentySeven'', features this in the [[spoiler:epilogue for the Omar ending, after they nuke most of the planet]].

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* ''Franchise/DeusExUniverse'':
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''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' takes place 20 years after the Great Collapse triggered by JC Denton, yet in that time, civilization has returned to its pre-collapse level. See ApocalypseNot.
** The GameMod for ''Deus Ex'', ''VideoGame/TwentyTwentySeven'', features this in the [[spoiler:epilogue for the Omar ending, after they nuke most of the planet]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Nier}}'' opens in 2049, years after a cataclysm befell the Earth [[spoiler:beginning with the events of Ending E from ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'']]. Afterwards, the game jumps forward over a thousand years, by which point civilization has collapsed into small villages built from the ruins of the old world.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Nier}}'' ''VideoGame/NieR'' opens in 2049, years after a cataclysm befell the Earth [[spoiler:beginning with the events of Ending E from ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'']]. Afterwards, the game jumps forward over a thousand years, by which point civilization has collapsed into small villages built from the ruins of the old world.



* The ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'' game ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' (''Dark Conflict'' in Europe) takes place months after a devastating meteor shower strikes the planet and kills off nearly 90% of the human population. Roaming bandits, deserting soldiers, low food supplies, and selfish civilians are just some of the hazards of the new world.



* ''Videogame/{{OFF}}'': Assuming that [[spoiler:The Room]] isn't symbolic - which it likely is - OFF takes place after the world was destroyed by some disaster; it was rebuilt by [[spoiler:the Queen and the Guardians]], who all hoped to create a new, peaceful world. ''VideoGame/ContinueStopRise'', a FanSequel, plays with this. It takes place after the world that OFF took place in was destroyed, but in this game's interpretation of events, that world was fake to begin with. The real world hasn't ended at all.
* ''VideoGame/{{Oneshot}}'': The Solstice route reveals that [[spoiler: the current World is actually a rough simulation of an Old World that was lost a long time ago. Proto, Cedric, Rue, and the Author are the only surviving residents of the previous world.]]

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* ''Videogame/{{OFF}}'': ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'': Assuming that [[spoiler:The Room]] isn't symbolic - which (which it likely is - OFF is), the game takes place after the world was destroyed by some disaster; it was rebuilt by [[spoiler:the Queen and the Guardians]], who all hoped to create a new, peaceful world. ''VideoGame/ContinueStopRise'', a FanSequel, plays with this. It takes place after the world that OFF took place in was destroyed, but in this game's interpretation of events, that world was fake to begin with. The real world hasn't ended at all.
* ''VideoGame/{{Oneshot}}'': The Solstice route reveals that [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the current World is actually a rough simulation of an Old World that was lost a long time ago. Proto, Cedric, Rue, and the Author are the only surviving residents of the previous world.]]world]].

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* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders'' takes place in Alefgard, after the events of [[VideoGame/DragonQuestI the original game]], after the original heroes take up the [[BigBad Dragonlord]]'s offer to side with him. Since then, the realm has been brought to ruin and is ruled by monsters.

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* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders'' takes place in Alefgard, after a WhatIf scenario regarding the events of [[VideoGame/DragonQuestI the original game]], after the original heroes take Hero took up the [[BigBad Dragonlord]]'s offer to side with him. Since then, the realm has been brought to ruin as humans were cursed to forget how to craft and build and is ruled by monsters.



** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': The second half, which completely alters the world map and jumps forward a year in time... and having one of the most depressing 2D cinematics of all time. And technically, ''Final Fantasy VI'' goes through this ''twice'': the War of the Magi, set long before the start of the game, ripped the world apart so badly it took mankind 1,000 years just to rediscover [[SteamPunk steam power]]... only for the game's BigBad to [[HistoryRepeats do it again]] [[ForTheEvulz for a giggle]].

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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': The second half, which completely alters the half set after a one-year TimeSkip shows a world map and jumps forward a year in time...altered by the BigBad's actions... and having one of the most depressing 2D cinematics of all time. And technically, ''Final Fantasy VI'' goes through this ''twice'': the War of the Magi, set long before the start of the game, ripped the world apart so badly it took mankind 1,000 years just to rediscover discover [[SteamPunk steam power]]... only for the game's BigBad to [[HistoryRepeats do it again]] [[ForTheEvulz for a giggle]].



* ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'': ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' (''AW: Dark Conflict'' in Europe) takes place after a meteor storm that wiped most of mankind.

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