Dystopia

The Book of Dengoth

The Book of Dengoth is set within a rotten, decaying world plagued by war, corruption, religious penitence, and greed. The magnificent towers and cathedrals are all around, stretching upward and scraping the night-lit heavens. Their interiors are fil...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Political Religious Sword & Sorcery

Degenesis: Rebirth

Apocalyptic events shook the world in its foundations: Asteroids crashed into it, the climate changed and a deadly plague killed a large part of the world's population. Humanity was driven into hiding. It took quite some time but eventually humanity...

Dystopia Modern Post Apocalyptic

Albion

The Prime Millenia and The Myth of Creation In the beginning of this realm, there was nothing. Then, The Dawnfather and The Stormlord created the sky and filled it with light. The Dawnfather joined with the The Moonweaver to separate the li...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Caelides

This is the world after the grand convergence event that returned Heaven, Hell, and Earth into one unified realm. It resembles the primordial realm from the begining of creation, yet a mallignant rot and cold has taken hold and spread across the worl...

Alternative History Cyberpunk Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Sword & Sorcery

Prenanem

The year is 675 and Kia just wants Tad to repaint their front door to hide the chips in the paint. What she doesn't ask for is everything else that happens.

Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Young Adult (YA)

The Toska

January 12, 2024. The outside world is in ruins. Governments push all their spending towards war and protection for the rich without second thoughts to the people below. Some seek to escape, others resign themselves to a life of petty crime. A few ho...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fantasy Supernatural

Palaco

From the ashes of oppression, the spark of rebellion ignites. A courageous few rise to lead the charge, their hearts aflame with the fervor of revolution. Guided by an unwavering determination to reclaim their dignity and restore balance to the unive...

Dystopia Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Sector Insignitas

A sector in the Segmentum Ultima, separated from Ultramar by the ever-growing Necron Empire of Sekempar and Sautekh. Formerly of no special strategic importance, other than as a refill and refit station for ships traveling between Ultramar and the S...

Dystopia Military Science Fiction

NUGaming's Exiled Lands of Dark Desires

We have created a fantasy world that is set in a fictional timeline. Some aspects of our world have been inspired by our own history, as well as drawing further inspiration from the Conan storyline, the Early Middle Ages all the way up to the...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Exploration Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

Synthacrosia

The Tower of Souls Created By Stormbril A tower wrought of cold metal and ancient stone stretches upwards into infinity, constru...

Clockpunk Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Sword & Sorcery

The Shattered Isles

The Shattered Isles are the broken remnants of the world following the cataclysm a thousand years ago. The cataclysm cracked the sun and cast the world into perpetual darkness. It also broke the Gates of Death, unleashing vengeful spirits and demons...

Crime Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Gothic Victorian

Discordia

A world plagued by monsters and torn asunder by the war with a fascist government.

Dieselpunk Dystopia Horror

The Fragments of Aethyrim

Before the foundation of the world, there was the Void Above. First to appear in the Void were the eggs of the Celestial Dragons. As they grew within their shells, those empyrean serpents dreamed, and their dreams created the myriad worlds of the co...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Horror Post Apocalyptic Survival

Korth A1

Korth, Alpha 1, or A-1 as it's more commonly known. This Earth like planet has been designated as the solar system waste planet. Rockets and drop ships fly in on a 2 month cycle and simply unload all the systems garbage. Everything from toxic waste,...

Crime Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

The Ophelia VII 'Dust Zone

Ophelia VII is the oldest Cardinal-World in the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Man, second in sanctity only to Holy-Terra itself. A world of mile-high cathedrals, linked by avenues lines with statues of thousands of Imperial Saints. Here, beneath th...

Dystopia Fanfiction Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Earth-618

A divergent timeline from Earth-616, which begins at the end of the second World War. (1945).

Cyberpunk Dystopia Superheroic

Fallout: Vault 93

A campaign setting in development that spans the territories from Asheville, NC, north to Bristol, TN, and east to Charlotte, NC.

Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Fantasia

When a dragon learns to romp and can big brain good there will be You meme it, you get it. It's gay enough to make sense, but not gay enough to be gay.

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Medieval Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Cyberpunk RED: Cradle of Innocence

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Dystopia Horror Mystery

Vortex World

This was a peaceful world, once. One without technology, where all the primitive civilization tirelessly worked trying to survive and thrive, much more devoted to mental and spiritual improval than to a search for technological improvements....

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Low Magic Political

Isan

The year is 348, and evil has prevailed. At the end of the last age, a great evil was summoned and rose forth. A great power managed to succeed in dividing the nations of the overworld, and then in a time of weakness, struck at its heart. Seemingly o...

Dystopia Fantasy Post Apocalyptic

Primal Dawn

[p]Welcome to The Carcass, this is the year 300 of the Afterfall, and the last bullet was shot a long, long time ago...[/p] [p]This is a world trying to rise again, over the ashes and eroded debris of an older one, that violently disappeared. The...

Ancient Dystopia Post Apocalyptic

Rime

The City of Rime is lauded to the outside world as a haven for the magically gifted, where they can use their magic without fear of repercussions, harassment, or arrest. Founded when public opinion began to turn against those gifted by the Starfall t...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic

Pinar

A bay of cracked and broken islands. Mountains frozen with fire. A dead sea of grass. A dark forest filled with secrets. This is what Pinar, the once great kingdom of the human race, has been reduced to. A few strongholds still remain- Bastion, at...

Dystopia Fantasy, High Magic Post Apocalyptic

Shadow over Ba Sing Se

Shadow over Ba Sing Se is a FATE-RPG round with friends. We fused the world of Avatar the Last Airbender with the dark futuristic setting of Cyberpunk 2077. We try to survive in this dark world... Disclaimer: I am a non native speaker so I use AI...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Descent into Avernus

Welcome to Baldur's Gate, a city of ambition and corruption. You’ve just started your adventuring career, but already find yourself embroiled in a plot that sprawls from the shadows of Baldur's Gate to the front lines of the planes-spanning Blood War...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy

Kreid Fleet

[p]The year is 2211. For almost two centuries now not just mankind, but all life on Earth, has been at war. This is not a war of victories and battles, but one of survival, for mankind's hubris has turned the planet's weather into a devastating, rava...

Dystopia Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Solarpunk Speculative

Melior

Fifty years ago, the world of Melior was forcefully introduced to magic during an apocalyptic invasion. Folks are questioning their old traditions and faiths as they struggle to rebuild amidst the new dangers of everyday life.

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Post Apocalyptic

Milon

Dystopia Fantasy, Low Magic Science Fiction Slice of Life Young Adult (YA)

Aluth

[h3|062f7db0-4184-49bd-904d-40915967ffdc]WHERE IMPERNANCE IS INFINITE [h3|091d8275-0748-42f4-b431-e1754e93e00f] [p]A planet that had once been but a barren, desolate wasteland is now a thriving, fractured archipelago. With...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Political Religious

Dawn of Others

Dystopia Horror Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Malkora

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Tarana

The world of Tarana and the Crystal Spire campaign setting are built on D&D 5E with the goal of capturing the texture, flavor, themes, and experiences of Celtic mythology, while including aetherpunk/steampunk flavors and aesthetics on top of it all.

Adult 18+ Ancient Clockpunk Comedy Crime

Laandorei

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror Political

Covenant

[container:vingettebox] [container:bangertext] Welcome to Arilia, first planet from the star Solis. [/container] [container...

Dystopia Science Fiction Superheroic Urban

The Wastelands

With the Second Empire a distant memory, the inhabitants of the Wastelands are trying to scratch out a life of their own. Whether it be with the United Cities, @[The Holy Nation](organization:0b6b...

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, Low Magic Post Apocalyptic

The Dark Future

Adult 18+ Crime Cyberpunk Dystopia Political

Guide to the Wastes

An Unofficial In-Character Guide to the Setting of Dystopia Rising, assembled by Players, for Players. [aloud]To contribute to the Wasteland Guide as an Author, Click [url:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScly5KG4NQmmLBnTIbtgWBY...

Biopunk Dystopia Horror Post Apocalyptic

Shadowfell

Ancient Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Victorian Weird

Aremorica

[p]Aremorica, a land where innovation and tradition intertwine in a world of steam-powered cities, mystical energies, and vibrant cultures. From the bustling railyards of Itasca to the opulent casinos of the Valley of Kings, Aremorica is a continent...

Clockpunk Dystopia Political Steampunk Supernatural

Future's Seen

It is the year 2121. The Great Rewind has happened in the recent past which has resulted in the technology being rewound to the 1860s - 1880’s. Future’s Seen centres around the City of @[Birden...

Dystopia

Die Siegel der Magie

[/col3] [aloud] Was ist DSDM? Dies ist ein Dark-Fantasy Projekt, deren Geschichte und Lore von verschiedenen Autor*innen ergänzt wird. Dafür benutzen wir den unten verlinkten Discord S...

Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror

Ithir

Dystopia Military Science Fantasy Science Fiction Speculative

The Corporate States of America

The election of 2020 revealed to the world that Facebook could still win presidencies. Mark Zuckerberg's secret democratic candidate, funded by a "well meaning" Silcon Valley elite, won with 70% of the voting public. It felt like a revolution. It...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fiction Speculative

Varnhald

[p]Varnhald is a setting for Pathfinder 2e that blends magic, industrialization, and dieselpunk aesthetics with themes of anti-capitalist resistance, anti-feudal struggle, and collective liberation.[/p]

Dieselpunk Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Political

Aurum

Both brutal & mystical, Aurum is a world unable to shake its dependency on old technology and fading magic. The sins of the past have left many regions scarred, ruined, and dominated by monsters. Normal people depend on protection from the Caster Gui...

Dystopia MagiPunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Superheroic

TERRES MOURANTES (dying earth)

a faerie world about bugs in the real world, the sins of the Gods, tragedy and the last days of the elves and of magic in French. Les Terres Mourantes sont un monde féérique créée par des Dieux, mais imparfait...En effet, les Dieux ne disposaient...

Dystopia Fairy tale Fantasy, High Magic

Aether

Hundreds of light years from Earth, Aether has become home to explorers who left Earth to live among the stars. Upon landing, the settlers quickly descended into war and conflict, the ramifications of which are still being felt today. This is the Fin...

Dystopia Science Fiction Transhumanism

Symuleia

500 years after the formation of the Galactic Council, a governmental body designed to generate and maintain peace among the 12 capital races of the local star systems, a long feared apocalypse finally arrived. The Two...

Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Science Fantasy Weird Western

Diner Punks

A Rockabilly Road Trip Through The American Apocalypse [p]In 1972, the world nuked itself. Now it's the 1980s and people have started to venture out of the safety of their camps to meet up with other surviv...

Alternative History Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Weird Western

Ascent of the Old Ones

This is a homebrew setting focused around the concept of a D&D world progressing in technology, and taking to the stars. The setting is inspired from various bits of sci-fi and post Apocalypse, such as Fallout, Battlestar Galactica, Far Cry...

Dystopia Exploration Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Taurua

World drifting far away from the eternal struggles and battles of mighty deities in the multiverse. So far away, that most beings of great power have long since lost knowledge of Taurua. On this, small world at the edge of eternal darkness and a...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Medieval Steampunk

Down Shift

[quote] The Nerth World is based on the DownShift Passage Systenbook[/quote] "There may be those that remember Old Earth, but honestly, it really doesn't matter anymore. Some basic rules define the boundaries of existence, and there are no exceptio...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Exploration Post Apocalyptic Speculative

Lyrian

In Times Past Origin On a baren water filled planet, the Emanations first arrived and pulled the land from the watery depths. This land first created was Lyrian. Being the first la...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark

Thern

A paradise to most, both above and below, Thern is an ancient world swept together by scientific progress and magical prowess. It has had many names, with a myriad of inhabitants ranging from humble to divine. It exists as a fulcrum for this multiver...

Ancient Dystopia Oriental Science Fantasy Solarpunk

Anogwin

[color:#cc0000]ADVENTURERS WANTED[/color] Do you [color:#993333]Need[/color] a [color:#00ff9900ff99]Fat Purse?[/color] Do you [color:#993333]Crave[/color] [color:#00ff99]Adventure?[/color] Do you [co...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic MagiPunk Young Adult (YA)

Mutant: Year Zero

Of course the world ends. It happens quickly, faster than anyone could predict. The Red Plague hits a world already on the brink of collapse. Extreme climate change, global economic crisis, increasing conflict between old and new superpo...

Dystopia Post Apocalyptic

The Great Dust Bowl

A FALLOUT SETTING New PlayersOther Games[/col3] [...

Alternative History Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Western

Shadowrama!

Welcome to the Sixth World! This is a guide I put together for my Gone Gaming player group to chronicle their adventures and the friends and fiends they made along the way. It's 2057. The great dragon Dunkelzahn has just announced he's running for...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Urban

Afterworld

Ein Welt in der nahen Zukunft, welche sich durch Cyberpunk, Dark-Future und Low-Fiction Sci-Fi Elemente auszeichnet. Inspiriert von verschiedenen Spielen und Welten wie Cyberpunk2077, SWKOTOR oder Prodeus stellt Afterworld eine dystopische Zukunft zw...

Crime Cyberpunk Dystopia Post-modern Science Fantasy

Dialéctica del Exterminio

"[E]l ser humano [...] ante todo ha reconocido, de manera clara y distinta, que toda vida es sufrimiento, que es esencialmente infeliz y dolorosa, sin importar la forma en que se manifieste". —Mainländer, P. (p. 103). [articleblock:6b6ff5b...

Decopunk Dieselpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic

Port Zen

The year is 2119. Welcome to Port Zen, a metropolis on the forefront the world. The city stands tall over the bay, a deep steelen neon jungle splitting the earth. Hundreds of millions call these str...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fantasy Urban

The Reign of Dreus

Toril, the world of the Forgotten Realms is a world of many countries and continents, but this world will simply cover one part of the continent of Faerun. However, the Sword Coast is a realm of many different peoples and governments. From city-state...

Dystopia Fantasy Political Sword & Sorcery

TYRANT

[p]Hello and welcome to the TYRANT world building project. Currently this is bare bones and only used to catalog stuff from my homebrew DnD game, but in time I wish for this to become a separate thing entirely. If you stumbled here somehow then I imp...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Horror

ALETHEIA

In this world, any Aletheia spoilers will be hidden behind spoiler tags. This world is still a work in progress, so please pardon the chaos as I work to get everything filled in.

Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Young Adult (YA)

The Collapsed Galaxy

Dystopia Exploration Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Beckettville

Come visit us in the delightful city of Beckettville! Take a stroll through our beautiful Beckett Park and admire the new foliage brought to you by BecCo Nurseries. Pop by our riverside shopping center, The Strip,...

Dystopia Horror Surreal Weird

Xandaria

It wasn't always like this. There were many Eras that came before the Great war between the mightiest Mages of the world and the Gods who nurtured the growth of heroes that has come to be known as the Calamity, but this is not one of those Eras. Th...

Dystopia Fantasy, High Magic Sword & Sorcery

Hunt: Mystery

Dystopia Horror Modern Supernatural Weird

Uriam

Uriam means Division. And there is no world more divided than ours. From the macrocosmic scale down to that of individuals, divisions are what make our stories. Differences define histories, define cultures, define class, define group, de...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Horror Science Fiction Weird

Chronicles of the Wasteland

((WARNING: THIS UNIVERSE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FALLOUT GAMES 1-4, New Vegas, and 76. PLEASE TURN BACK IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO SEE THEM.)) The Earth as defined by Bethesda Game Studio's Fallout Franchise, and re-imagined with my personal player c...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Fanfiction Informational Post Apocalyptic

Space Western

A spaghetti western sci-fi theme

Dystopia Space Opera Western

Infinite Mars

Mars has become an infinite chain of every possible Mars from the multiverse. The first mars we know of was inhabited by humans from Earth, in the time before. Through unknown events, a group of politicians, spearheaded by a man named Jim Haynes, and...

Cyberpunk Dystopia MagiPunk Mecha Science Fiction

Iveomos

The Realms of Iveomos is a world under the control of an Elvish Empire known as the Eltree Empire. The world is a high-magic, age of sail, and an early victorian setting inspired by several concepts in fiction including pirates, dystopian London, and...

Clockpunk Dystopia Flintlock Military Victorian

Datapuls Nürnberg

Willkommen im Datapuls Nürnberg, einem Setting für Shadowrun 6. Das Datapuls befasst sich mit Nürnberg und dem Allianzland Franken, wobei die Informationen zum Teil aus offiziellen Quellen stammen, zum Teil aber auch selbst entwickelt sind. Da...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark

Lyx

A place of Decay and Abundance. A place of desperate perpetuity. A world eradicated and reformed. Long, long ago, the world shuddered and breathed its last....

Cyberpunk Dystopia MagiPunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Terminus

Adult 18+ Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror

City of Blood and Shadows

Dystopia Gothic Horror Post Apocalyptic Supernatural

The Divided States

The United States approximately 1,000 years in the future after the Faro Plague caused by Ted Faro(HZD). After the extinction of life on earth, CYAN was instructed by GAIA, to activate the Yellowstone volcano, burying the inactive machinery under lay...

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Military Modern

Middengeard

On an island, there is no escape. [p]The Magi have ruled these lands for thousands of years. The angels blessed them, or so they claim. They gave the Magi gifts that turned them from humans into po...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Modern Political

The Third Horizon

Dystopia Horror Science Fiction

Battlecast

Terrina is a world with a history inherited from another planet, known by its inhabitants as "the Old World". Ships made a long journey carrying countless unborn children, astronauts meant to maintain and course correct the ships as well as act as te...

Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Hard Magic Political Science Fantasy

The Cor2 Files

Projects based on The Cor2 Files: ACI.cor by Adrian Roguehunter by Vern Carson Hope by Vern Carson [url:https://www.inkitt.com/stories/scifi/1086351#]h...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Neo Noir Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Children of Tantalus

Cyberpunk Dystopia Horror Science Fiction

Sherun

Dystopia

Galaxies End

A legacy of humanity [p]In the year 2034 AD, global tensions rose to conflict and open warfare. In what became historically known as 'The Third War', or 'The Final War' to some, major superpowers of Earth vied for political control of the p...

Dystopia Military Political Post-modern Science Fiction

The Waste

A post-nuclear war radioactive wasteland roughly translating to the dimensions of eastern Iceland. Humanity lives within ten partially-underground colony domes within this landscape, waiting for the day the world is habitable to live in the open air...

Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Doskvol

Post Apocalyptic world where the players are just trying to survive.

Atompunk Cyberpunk Dystopia Post Apocalyptic

The Dark Utopia

The dark utopia is a gloomy dimension that lies beyond the usual universes. A kind of extra-dimensional dungeon, in which the worst beings of different universes were banished, corrupt gods and cosmic horrors can be found here as well as the long-for...

Dystopia Speculative Surreal

The End

Generations ago, a mysterious infection spread across the world and brought the dead back from the grave, plunging the world as we knew it into an apocalypse. Humanity fought for well over a century before being wiped out. With a combination of the i...

Dystopia Horror Post Apocalyptic Supernatural

Notta

Notta was first created when a star began to take shape, just as any other planet. With no sun near the planet, it formed two moons, circling around it. This world of eternal night created life without any god's intervention through evolution. Eventu...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Post Apocalyptic

Earth, Year 2267

Earth in the year 2267, post WWIII where nukes irradiated large swaths of the United States and Europe, sea levels have risen and flooded coasts. Florida is gone, London is a floating city.

Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fiction, Modern

The Perils of Ronault

Amongst the many continents of the saltslick laden seas of the known world, many civilizations and empires flourished upon its lands in a golden age, enjoying the steady advancement of technology and magic that came with it. However, the Kozholian Em...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

Astrea

The Three Lands:Far in the depths of nowhere, in the center of Sixteen planes, a design of flawless anarchy and a brutal existence cared for by the twin celestial goddesses; Droduna and Erenna. At the center of their grand des...

Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Fantasy, Urban

Long War

Contrary to humanity's expectations, neither leaving Earth nor expanding throught the Galaxy could change human nature. When Mankind expanded throughout the stars, its problems expanded as well. Both in number and in scale. Most of them will...

Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

Terramos

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Medieval

Vestiges

Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Gothic Mystery Political

Galaxy at War

A Star Wars DnD universe, designed to use a modified homebrew 5E set of rules for me and my friends. Heavily wip and untested. (looking into modding this https://www.scribd.com/doc/278947931/Star-Wars-D-D-5th-Edition-Conversion-PF ) Several peo...

Dystopia Science Fantasy Western

CoS Universum

Long story short: Die Menschen haben sich ins Mittelalter zurückgebombt. Neue Spezies sind entstanden. Organisationen, Nationen und Götter bekämpfen sich gegenseitig.

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Supernatural

The Unhallowed

[color:#c10300]A story of the survival of the fittest[/color]

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Surreal Sword & Sorcery