Free 1950s atomic-age games, played in the browser

The atomic age (nuclear tests, fallout shelters, giant-monster B-movies) is a good setting for games. These four free browser games each use a different corner of it.

Play Rad Rush free

Civil defence and shelters: Last Siren

Set in Nevada in 1957, Last Siren is about the civil defence side: sirens, wells, stockpiles, rationing and a limited number of places underground. The enemy is radiation, not a monster.

Giant monsters: Rad Rush

Rad Rush is the B-movie. You pick a small-town lawman, a scientist, a mechanic or a housewife and fight giant ants, a flying saucer and the Atomic Colossus.

Desert town noir: Nuke Deck

Nuke Deck is set in 1955 at the edge of a bomb crater, with a miner, an atomic scientist, a salesman, a combat medic and a card sharp as heroes. It is a roguelike card game.

After it all: Scrap Fury

Scrap Fury is the aftermath, with a wasteland of salt flats, a burning refinery and a broken interstate to race on. This is the least 1950s of the four, and the most violent on the road.