Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Turn-based ranged and melee combat against humans and mutants with blood, and exaggerated critical-death animations where bodies explode into chunks, melt, or are cut apart.
The player can buy, sell, and consume chems (Buffout, Mentats, Psycho) and alcohol for stat boosts, with a risk of addiction and withdrawal.
Bleak post-nuclear survival with slavery, mass death, forced mutation, and a shop that secretly sells human meat as jerky.
The player can steal, lie, and murder townsfolk, gaining a criminal reputation for such acts.
Sex work is referenced in the wasteland's towns through dialogue and townsfolk.
Dialogue includes moderate profanity from wasteland characters.
Ruined vaults and super-mutant lairs create a tense, unsettling atmosphere in places.
Combat includes fighting wasteland creatures such as radscorpions, giant rats, and deathclaws.
Occasional crude and suggestive dialogue and references to sex work in wasteland towns; nothing explicit is shown.
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What it is
Fallout is a single-player, turn-based role-playing game set in a retro-futuristic wasteland decades after a nuclear war. Playing as a vault dweller sent to find a replacement water chip, you explore ruined towns, talk your way through morally ambiguous quests, and fight raiders, mutants, and creatures. Combat is bloody, featuring blood spatter and grisly death animations where bodies can explode or melt. Drug use is a built-in mechanic with addiction consequences, and the world touches on grim themes of survival, mutation, and a cult-like enemy. Dialogue contains moderate profanity and occasional adult references. Quests can often be solved through diplomacy, stealth, theft, or killing, so player choices carry real weight.
How it's framed
The game deliberately presents a morally gray wasteland where survival is uncertain and choices have consequences; violence, theft, and drug use are options rather than mandates, and the narrative frames desperation and hard trade-offs without moralizing praise or condemnation.
Details
- Developer
- Interplay Inc.
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Released
- Nov 1, 2015
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