Dystopian games / films?

[Hobbit XIII]

Something to keep us cheery.

Name game or film about a Dystopian future/alternate reality.

I am going to ruin it by stating the obvious .

1984: Film and book

V for Vendetta: Film and comic

Equilibrium : Film and CHRISTIAN BALE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_y7PL23Cko
I want to be a Grammaton Cleric!

So what are your choices?

[bossman150]

Fallout series, an obscure fps franchise, probably never heard of it.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

I, robot.
Minority Report
Automata
Children of Men
Blade Runner
The Road
Gattaca
Cyberpunk 2077

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The news.

[GlaceonChireiden]

Would 'They Live' count as dystopian?
Aliens take over and are able to match our exact appearances thanks to technology, and some humans who know about this still side with them for riches.

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by GlaceonChireiden:

Would 'They Live' count as dystopian?
Aliens take over and are able to match our exact appearances thanks to technology, and some humans who know about this still side with them for riches.

That is how I view present day just without the Aliens but yes it comes under alternate reality and it is of that kind of bleak thing.
bubblegum anybody?

[salamander]

some games with dystopian settings i like:

- half life series
- arctic eggs
- xenogears
- signalis
- jak 2 and 3
- madworld
- dead rising 2 and 3

some films/novels with dystopian settings i like:

- soylent green (both the film and the novel on which it was based "make room! make room!")
- battle royale (both the novel and film)
- the running man (both the novel and film)
- tender is the flesh (novel)

though apocalyptic/dystopian media often overlap, if a setting is more about the apocalypse than the dystopian society, i prefer to categorise it as an apocalypse story. because nearly every apocalyptic story could be considered dystopian.

[Electric Cupcake]

Gattaca
Brazil
THX 1138
Minority Report
We Happy Few
Sleeper
Logan's Run
Z.P.G.
Silent Running
Escape from New York (such a shame there was never a sequel)

[Electric Cupcake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcuMT-6HAw

[Electric Cupcake]

Tank Girl
Ultraviolet (2006)
AKIRA
Barb Wire
Atlas Shrugged 1-3
The Hand (1965) No relation to the evil marvel ninjas.

Doctor Zhivago was actually a fairly sympathetic look at the Russian Revolution, but far too critical and dystopian for the Soviet censors to tolerate. Watch the original movie, or the Russian-made 2006 miniseries. Avoid the 2002 version.

[salamander]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

AKIRA

i was going to give akira a shout too, but it is such a fusion of subgenres like cyberpunk, apocalyptic, body-horror and such that i was unsure if i would consider it fully a dystopian story. but aye, i think i would.

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yeah LIFE

[Electric Cupcake]

Chernobyl
The China Syndrome
Silkwood
Dr. Who: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

Well, a pretty big chunk of anime, novels, and manga fits into this category.

* From the New World - the world was thrust backward in technological progress after a significant portion of humanity developed lethal telekinetic powers

* Vampire in the Garden - the remnants of humanity struggle to survive in an isolated city, fending off mutated vampires with ultraviolet spotlights. Yet among them, some on both sides dare to dream of finding a way to coexist

* Heavenly Delusion (2023)

* Zanki Zero: Last Beginning
https://store.steampowered.com/app/819020/Zanki_Zero_Last_Beginning/

God created the world in seven days. It only took one day for humans to destroy the world (с)
I really enjoyed this game because it’s from the creators of Danganronpa. It features a mysterious island set in the flooded ruins of a city, a cute mascot character, and a deadly survival game.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1724990751
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3294519034

* World’s End Club
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1570020/Worlds_End_Club/

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Escape from New York (such a shame there was never a sequel)

What do you say we play a little Bangkok rules? [picks up a tin can] Nobody draws until this hits the ground. You ready?

Such a Clint Eastwood / Man with no name move.

Escape from New York is one of those super classics because its not modern now it would be too glammed up.

Escape from LA?
they could put Snake in Escape from Disney land and I'll love it.

[Crystal Sharrd]

The six o'clock news.
Book: The Handmaid's Tale
Christian extremists overthrow the United States Government and create a religious dictatorship where women don't have rights.
Movie: Divergent
A rigid post-apocalyptic Chicago civilization kills those who excel at more than one thing.
Game: Freedom Wars
Far off in the future, Earth's resources are pretty much exhausted and the remaining city-states (called panopticons) fight over what remains. The protagonist is a Sinner, someone born without permission from the government and thus given a one million year prison sentence to work off because a pamopticon can't just kill a baby in case it turns out to be useful.