What it does best
Your decisions reshape the wasteland in ways you cannot take back
You are playing a character, not merely steering a hero
A bleak, strange wasteland with menace beneath its dark comedy
Turn-based fights reward preparation, positioning, and deliberate choices
What might put you off
A harsh time limit and opaque quest information
Clunky, occasionally frustrating combat and interface
The setup
What you are walking into
The Vault Dweller is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California in order to retrieve a water chip to replace the broken chip of Vault 13, their home, which they are the first person to ever leave. The player will engage in Western RPG character building and turn-based tactical combat while getting to know settlements and factions of people, mutants and ghouls through branching dialogue trees.
Where it lives
Genre
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