S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a game series and Metro is a book series and video game series inspired by the Russian science fiction novel Roadside Picnic. S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a free roaming game set in Chernobyl with the premise that there was a second meltdown in Chernobyl that caused time and space anomalies, the titular "STALKERS" essentially being mercenaries who wander the wasteland. Metro which currently has two books in English, Metro 2033 and Metro 2034, and two video games; Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, is set in a post apocalyptic Moscow Sort of. It's called "Metro" because the surface was destroyed in a nuclear war, and the survivors in Moscow escaped the holocaust in underground shelters that were set up using the Moscow metro system.



Lastly Fallout is a game series that used to be a turn based RPG but these days is a first person western RPG published by the same people behind the Elder Scrolls franchise. Like Metro it's set in a post apocalyptic world, only Fallout is set in various regions throughout America. For instance Fallout 3, the first game to be an RPG/FPS hybrid and arguably the best game in the series, is set in the ruins of Washington D.C while Fallout: New Vegas is set chiefly in the Mojave desert.