zombie apocalypse · post-apocalyptic · survival horror · grimdark · scavenging · undead · tension · hostile environment · resource scarcity
Dust hangs in the air like forgotten ghosts, stirred only by the faint light squeezing between the nailed-shut windows. The old floor groans as you push yourself up, your skull pounding with the absence of memory. A narrow gap in the boards offers a view to the street below—a slow, shuffling parade of the ruined dead. They crowd the lanes of this abandoned village, moving with a mindless, awful hunger. Beside you, cold and heavy, lie a pistol and a machete. A hand-sketched map, smudged with what might be blood, marks a single location: a survivor camp. The world has ended. Who were you before it did?