Every scenario
51 ways it goes wrong, and what each one would ask you to already own.
Avengers: Doomsday
Two worlds are trying to occupy the same address.
5 items→
A Quiet Place
It hunts by sound. You get one mistake.
5 items→
I Am Legend
The city is yours until sundown.
5 items→
The Road
Keep moving south. Do not explain why.
5 items→
The Day After Tomorrow
The power went out in February and stayed out.
5 items→
28 Days Later
It is not a virus that makes you tired.
5 items→
Children of Men
Nothing is hunting you. Everything has simply stopped.
5 items→
Contagion
Nobody is coming. Everyone is busy.
5 items→
Mad Max: Fury Road
Water is currency. So is petrol. So are you.
5 items→
The Martian
Everyone left. The maths did not.
5 items→
Alien
There is one of it and no way off.
5 items→
War of the Worlds
They were already here. They were just waiting.
5 items→
Dawn of the Dead
You are safe. That is the problem.
5 items→
Snowpiercer
Outside is minus eighty. Inside is politics.
5 items→
World War Z
Twelve seconds from bite to standing up again.
5 items→
Bird Box
Seeing it is the mechanism.
5 items→
The Mist
Something is in it. Do not go and check.
5 items→
Tremors
It hunts by vibration. The ground is not safe.
5 items→
Jaws
The water is closed. Nobody will say so.
5 items→
Deep Impact
The date is known. That is the cruel part.
5 items→
Threads
The flash was the easy part.
5 items→
The Last of Us
It is a fungus. It was always going to be a fungus.
5 items→
Station Eleven
Ninety-nine percent. Then twenty quiet years.
5 items→
The Thing
One of you is not.
5 items→
10 Cloverfield Lane
He might be right about outside. That is not the question.
5 items→
Blindness
Everyone lost their sight in a fortnight.
5 items→
Greenland
The list exists. You are not on it.
5 items→
Leave the World Behind
Nobody tells you what happened. That is the event.
5 items→
The Impossible
The water came inland and took the map with it.
5 items→
San Andreas
The building is standing. That is not the same as safe.
5 items→
Twister
Fifteen minutes of warning, on a good day.
5 items→
Everest
Above eight thousand metres you are dying either way.
5 items→
127 Hours
Nobody knows where you are. You did not tell them.
5 items→
The Grey
You are in their territory. They have noticed.
5 items→
Cast Away
Four years. Nobody looking in the right ocean.
5 items→
Gravity
The debris comes back around every ninety minutes.
5 items→
Interstellar
Corn is the last crop. Then it will not be.
5 items→
Dune
Water discipline, or you will not last the crossing.
5 items→
The Terror
The ice took the ships in September. It is now March.
5 items→
Annihilation
Nothing in here obeys anything.
5 items→
Don't Look Up
The maths is settled. The argument is not.
5 items→
The Stand
Ninety-nine point four percent, in nineteen days.
5 items→
Waterworld
There is no land. There has not been for a long time.
5 items→
Dante's Peak
The mountain has been quiet for seven thousand years.
5 items→
Outbreak
The cordon went up while you were inside it.
5 items→
Knowing
A solar event large enough to end the conversation.
5 items→
The Bay
It came out of the estuary on the fourth of July.
5 items→
The Divide
You made it to the basement. Now stay human.
5 items→
30 Days of Night
The sun sets in November and returns in December.
5 items→
The Happening
It is in the wind. Small groups are safer.
5 items→
Silent Running
The last forest is in a dome and the order came to jettison it.
5 items→
Get the next one
One scenario at a time
New scenarios by email when they land — the premise, the threat, and the kit it would call for. No more than one a week.
We store your address to send you these emails and nothing else. No sharing, no selling, unsubscribe in one click from any email. See the privacy notice.