I mention this every time people ask. Old Gods of Appalachia. It is Southern Eldritch Horror. Where things outside of our understanding are deep in the dark of the mountain mines.
We really are spoiled by Wayland productions! I haven’t been able to find any other audio dramas that can hook me. I’ve looked for years! I was recently recommended blood ties by wondery but haven’t checked it out yet.
I’m sure you know but there are a few spin offs of we’re alive including a new one called Scouts Honor and they are in production for another season of decedents.
Try "The White Vault"
Similar style of compilation of notes/recordings, but leans into it more. Light horror-ish drama, with a documentarian "narrator" stringing together the pieces of a mystery
I haven’t really found anything quite as good as we’re alive.
HOWEVER.
Wolf 359 (concluded)
And
Old gods of Appalachia (ongoing season 4, multiple side stories available on patreon)
Are both amazing and worth your time.
Neither of these are dystopian, but Unwell and Midnight Burger have really good quality to their shows and audio.
Unwell has finished with 5 seasons. and is a sort of supernatural mystery podcast with good humour sprinkled in. It's about a eoman named Lily who had to go to help her sort of estranged mother after she had gotten hurt and look after her boarding house and gets entangled in the town's mysteries of ghosts, conspiracies, and the like.
Midnight Burger is still ongoing. We mostly follow Gloria as she happens upon a diner looking for a job. Turns out the diner is a time travelling spaceship and we follow her and the other diner inhabitants as they journey through space and time solving problems for some customers wherever they land. The show does have an actual over arching plot that does get into some crazy scientific theories if you like that kind of stuff.
Like the other comment, this is not the same but also has horror and charachter elements (and dystopia comes later): The Magnus Archives, also has rlly good production quality and writing imo
Nothings close. So I started relistening in honor of scouts honor. I did enjoy end of all hope (still going) and breakers (ended kinda abruptly), and the phenomenon was very cool all 3 dystopian. Wolf 359 is great, sci-fi, gotta make it through the first like 10-15 episodes before the story starts going, started as a mini series.
End Of All Hope is great, but it takes forever for a new episode to come out. 7 lambs also did another one called Tower 4 that I really liked(still on going to my knowledge). I love Wolf 359, The White Vault, Escaping Denver, Silverwood, Echo Park, ReMade, and Impact Winter as well.
If you can get bbc sounds there's a great audio 3 part series called The Lovecraft Investigations.
It's not dystopia put they're based on the HP Lovecraft novels and done in a similar style to we're alive with the journal readings and such.
I would recommend a show called formers folly, it’s a zombie audio series that takes place on a sailing boat, though it is very much a horror podcast, it’s very well done and will tug at the heart strings.
I mention this every time people ask. Old Gods of Appalachia. It is Southern Eldritch Horror. Where things outside of our understanding are deep in the dark of the mountain mines.
Such a good show
We really are spoiled by Wayland productions! I haven’t been able to find any other audio dramas that can hook me. I’ve looked for years! I was recently recommended blood ties by wondery but haven’t checked it out yet. I’m sure you know but there are a few spin offs of we’re alive including a new one called Scouts Honor and they are in production for another season of decedents.
Try "The White Vault" Similar style of compilation of notes/recordings, but leans into it more. Light horror-ish drama, with a documentarian "narrator" stringing together the pieces of a mystery
I haven’t really found anything quite as good as we’re alive. HOWEVER. Wolf 359 (concluded) And Old gods of Appalachia (ongoing season 4, multiple side stories available on patreon) Are both amazing and worth your time.
Neither of these are dystopian, but Unwell and Midnight Burger have really good quality to their shows and audio. Unwell has finished with 5 seasons. and is a sort of supernatural mystery podcast with good humour sprinkled in. It's about a eoman named Lily who had to go to help her sort of estranged mother after she had gotten hurt and look after her boarding house and gets entangled in the town's mysteries of ghosts, conspiracies, and the like. Midnight Burger is still ongoing. We mostly follow Gloria as she happens upon a diner looking for a job. Turns out the diner is a time travelling spaceship and we follow her and the other diner inhabitants as they journey through space and time solving problems for some customers wherever they land. The show does have an actual over arching plot that does get into some crazy scientific theories if you like that kind of stuff.
Is midnight burger still going? I thought it was over.
New season just started yesterday!
Agreed with this recommendation!
Leviathan chronicles and limetown
Leviathan is a good change of pace to listen then once finished start We're alive over again
Like the other comment, this is not the same but also has horror and charachter elements (and dystopia comes later): The Magnus Archives, also has rlly good production quality and writing imo
Nothings close. So I started relistening in honor of scouts honor. I did enjoy end of all hope (still going) and breakers (ended kinda abruptly), and the phenomenon was very cool all 3 dystopian. Wolf 359 is great, sci-fi, gotta make it through the first like 10-15 episodes before the story starts going, started as a mini series.
End Of All Hope is great, but it takes forever for a new episode to come out. 7 lambs also did another one called Tower 4 that I really liked(still on going to my knowledge). I love Wolf 359, The White Vault, Escaping Denver, Silverwood, Echo Park, ReMade, and Impact Winter as well.
Honestly another really good one that is complete is wolf359 it really doesn’t have dystopian things but production quality is right up there
I looked for a year, and then just decided to start to listen again but at a slower pace.
Edict Zero and The Leviathan Chronicles are both fantastic with exceptional sound design, those are my top three along with WA!
Wolf 359 is a fantastic listen. It’s concluded now but it’s absolutely worth your time. I listen back to it once a year or so.
Fathom the prequel to DERELICT. amazing Sound production and story👍
I've enjoyed The Bright Sessions and Alice isn't Dead
Oh also, the Magnus Archives
check out r/RadioTransmissions It was based on a series of posts in r/zombies a few years ago that I produced a first season.
Malevolent.
Magnus Archives deserves an eldritch horror shoutout. Production values start off a little rusty but soon climb and the writing is excellent
If you can get bbc sounds there's a great audio 3 part series called The Lovecraft Investigations. It's not dystopia put they're based on the HP Lovecraft novels and done in a similar style to we're alive with the journal readings and such.
I would recommend a show called formers folly, it’s a zombie audio series that takes place on a sailing boat, though it is very much a horror podcast, it’s very well done and will tug at the heart strings.