Wasteland 3

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — graphic
Post-apocalypticRPGStrategy

What's in it

Violence graphic & gore
High

Turn-based tactical firefights against human raiders, cultists, and mutants with heavy blood spray; enemies can be gunned down, burned, or blown apart.

Substances player uses or trades
High

Alcohol and drugs are referenced and available as consumable stat-boosting items the party can ingest during play.

Dark themes graphic
High

Bleak post-apocalyptic setting with cannibalism, slavery, child soldiers, and disturbing cult atrocities woven into quests.

Crime & lawlessness rewarded for crime against innocents
High

The player can rob, execute prisoners, side with slavers or gangs, and make ruthless choices for reward.

Language strong
High

Frequent strong profanity including f-words throughout dialogue.

Torture depicted
Moderate

Interrogation and torture appear in the story and some encounters, with cruelty depicted on-screen.

Sexual content innuendo
Moderate

Crude sexual humor and innuendo in dialogue, along with references to sex and an optional companion romance.

Nudity revealing/suggestive attire
Low

Some characters wear scant or fetish-style outfits; no explicit nudity.

Horror & psychological spooky
Low

Occasional grisly and disturbing imagery and settings, though it is not a horror game.

Animal combat combat mechanic
Low

Combat includes fighting mutated beasts and creatures as ordinary enemies.

Suicide & self-harm referenced
Low

Self-destruction and mass death tied to a cult are referenced in the narrative.

Mutilation / body horror referenced
Low

Powerful hits and explosives dismember and gib human enemies as a visible combat outcome.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Wasteland 3 is a party-based tactical role-playing game set in a frozen, post-nuclear Colorado where the player leads a squad of Desert Rangers through a lawless wasteland. Gameplay centers on turn-based gunfights against raiders, cultists, robots, and mutated creatures, with heavy blood, exploding bodies, and dismembering kill effects. The world is bleak and morally grey, featuring cannibal clans, slavers, torture, and hard branching choices that let players rob, betray, or execute characters. Dialogue carries frequent strong profanity, crude and sexual humor, and drug and alcohol use appears as consumable items. It is a single-player experience with no online interaction or purchases.

How it's framed

The game frames its violence and cruelty through dark satire and reactive moral choice: the player constantly decides how ruthless or merciful to be, and factions and story outcomes shift in response. Grim subject matter like cannibalism, torture, and betrayal is presented as the harsh logic of a collapsed society rather than being celebrated, though the player is free to act brutally and is often rewarded for it.

Details

Developer
inXile Entertainment
Publisher
Deep Silver
Released
2020-08-28
Metacritic 85critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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