Near the End of the World Vidya

I wasnt expecting it to get this dark and the animation was actually pretty good with CGI used fittingly, so it surprised me.
Plot was still fucking dumb as shit
The designs and atmosphere just appeals to me though.

oh man, to be sixteen and exploring a budding fetish for clothing destruction.

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Does Half-Life 2 count as post-apocalypse or is it Dying Earth/Near Apocalypse?

Anything from the Panzer Dragoon series?
I know they're technically post apocalyptic but the timelapse between the
lore events and the in-game are so great that things are relatively normal but collapsing all the same.

This might seem to be a copout, but Halo 2 is technically near-post apocalyptic.

using similar logic one can say Ocarina of Time counts because the inevitable outcome is A.) Hyrule becomes a shithole or B.) Hyrule becomes Biblically flooded

Seems like both, at least before Freeman returned.
Humanity got enslaved and lives under a dystopia as the combine keep sucking the earth dry of resources and pump it full of trash and the populace dies out with no hope for the future.
After you show up it slowly starts turning into post-post-apocalypse when humanity tries beating the combine and regaining control over the world.
Since Valve are too busy jewing people with hats and weapon skins we never got the resolution to the impeding counter-attack.

I like to think all of the Half-Life series is Dying Earth and the reason Episode 2 didn't get a sequel is because thats pretty much when everything fucked up and the Combine sucked all of the Earths resources beyond return. Even if they did close the portal and win back the Earth its still too late.

ODST or Reach would be better examples for the Halo series.

Actually here's a pretty good analytical piece about ODST about it's pre-apocalyptic and heavily draws from dante's inferno:

forwarduntodawn.com/nine-levels-underground/