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Fallout

Platforms

PC

Initial release Sept. 30, 1997

Genres

RPG
Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy

Franchise Fallout

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Key art from Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game showing a member of the Brotherhood of Steel in power armour

News

Fallout creator asks why triple-A RPGs focus on violence, doesn't provide very hopeful answer

Also talks up the joys of the "rarely chosen path"

Jan. 6, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A top down image of a post-apocalyptic base in the original Fallout game.

News

Fallout 1 and 2 (and Tactics) are currently free-to-keep from the Epic Games Store

Alongside Wild Card Football

Aug. 31, 2024 Graham Smith

A farm scene in Fallout 2

News

Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm

“I think I'd like people to experience it the way it was”

June 19, 2024 Nic Reuben

The teaser image for Fortnite's Fallout crossover, showing a Brotherhood of Steel knight looming amidst orange clouds

News

Fallout is headed to Fortnite’s next season

Wrecked will kick off next Friday

May 17, 2024 Matt Jarvis

The original Fallout box art with a power armour helmet

Feature

The original Fallout is the perfect antidote to Fallout fever

War did change, actually

April 23, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A man fires a green energy ray out of a gun in the Project Nevada mod in Fallout: New Vegas

News

The Fallout TV show’s popularity has blown up Nexus Mods as everyone rushes to play Fallout 4 again

And then remembers they need mods to make it worth playing

April 22, 2024 Matt Jarvis

The three main characters of Amazon's Fallout TV show

News

Well, whaddya know, there’ll officially be a season two of Amazon’s very popular Fallout TV show

Thumbs up

April 19, 2024 Matt Jarvis

Podcast

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 Episode 15: everyone loves Fallout and the Fallout TV show

We give it seven Vault Boy thumbs up

April 18, 2024 Alice Bell

Walton Goggins as The Ghoul in Amazon's Fallout TV show

News

The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games

Who shot first?

April 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis

Post-apocalyptic poses in the Fallout show.

News

Fallout TV creators saved “iconic elements” for season 2 so it doesn’t feel like they just skimmed Wikipedia

They have some big, bad cards to play if they get a second season

April 16, 2024 Alice O'Connor

Post-apocalyptic poses in the Fallout show.

News

Text Vault-Tec's number from the Fallout TV show to get a potential teaser for a November announcement

Don't call the number if you're around other people, though

April 16, 2024 Alice Bell

Walton Goggins as The Ghoul in Amazon's Fallout TV show

News

The Fallout TV show gave the Fallout games a huge player bump, as everyone remembers they like Fallout

Fallout 4, New Vegas and 76 have more than doubled their players on Steam

April 15, 2024 Alice Bell

The three main characters of Amazon's Fallout TV show

News

The Fallout TV show's Season 1 is now available to stream

Eight episodes of Pip-Boys, power armour and daddy issues

April 11, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Art for the Fallout TV show with mascot Vault Boy giving a thumbs-up against the backdrop of Los Angeles

News

The Fallout TV show has revived an ancient argument about Vault Boy's thumb

Look to windward

April 10, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Ella Purnell as vault dweller Lucy in the Fallout TV show

News

The Fallout TV show already has a second season in the works, it seems

Could it focus on the New California Republic?

April 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis

The Brotherhood of Steel as seen in Amazon's Fallout TV adaptation.

News

Fallout's TV series looks pretty good in latest trailer, will release April 11th

Dang, now I want to watch it

March 7, 2024 Graham Smith

A character in The Outer Worlds doing finger guns at the camera

Feature

Tim Cain has taken his Fallout and The Outer Worlds dev stories to YouTube - and he's having a great time

The semi-retired Cain tells us that “there is so much about being a game director that is not fun”

Jan. 2, 2024 Jeremy Peel

The Brotherhood of Steel as seen in Amazon's Fallout TV adaptation.

News

The Fallout TV series trailer certainly looks like Fallout, except for that one cyclops

It's coming April 12th

Dec. 2, 2023 Graham Smith

A man and his dog in a Fallout 4 screenshot.

News

Amazon’s Fallout TV show finally has a release date

Rad

Oct. 23, 2023 Matt Jarvis

Feature

These are your 25 favourite RPGs of all time

As voted for by the RPS readership

Sept. 20, 2023 Katharine Castle

Fallout 76 is a post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online RPG from Bethesda Game Studios.

News

More leaked Vault-Tec images emerge from Amazon's Fallout TV show

War never changes, but leaked set photos do

July 31, 2023 Kaan Serin

Promo art of a suit of power armour stood inside a Red Rocket garage from Fallout 4

News

Unofficial Fallout TV show set photos show the Red Rocket garage being built

I feel like I've been here before

Jan. 25, 2023 CJ Wheeler

Key art from Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game showing a member of the Brotherhood of Steel in power armour

News

A trio of classic Fallout games is today’s free Epic Games Store offering

War never charges

Dec. 22, 2022 CJ Wheeler

Fallout 76 key art, showing a Brotherhood Of Steel helmet resting on dirt.

News

Amazon share first official look at the Fallout TV show

Celebrating the series' 25th anniversary with a cryptic screenshot

Oct. 26, 2022 Kaan Serin

A chunky Brotherhood of Steel boy in a Fallout 3 screenshot.

News

Fallout 3 and Evoland are free to keep from the Epic Games Store this week

Some hefty chunks of RPG going for nothing

Oct. 20, 2022 CJ Wheeler

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Games from the Fallout franchise