Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

Interplay Entertainment

Release Date: October 10, 1997

Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), DOS, Mac, OnLive Game System

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.


Genres

Role-playing (RPG)

Turn-based strategy (TBS)


Themes

Science fiction

Survival

Stealth

Open world


Release Dates

Sep 30, 1997 - DOS

Sep 30, 1997 - PC (Microsoft Windows)

Sep 30, 1997 - Mac

Sep 11, 2002 - Mac

Oct 10, 1997 - Mac

Q4 1997 - Mac

Oct 10, 1997 - DOS

Oct 10, 1997 - PC (Microsoft Windows)

Q4 1997 - PC (Microsoft Windows)

Jan 03, 2012 - Linux

Jul 30, 2012 - OnLive Game System

Q4 1997 - DOS

Aug 19, 2009 - PC (Microsoft Windows)


Game Modes

Single player


Keywords

aliens

hunting

robot

post-apocalyptic

exploration

stealth

murder

drugs

sword

grinding

turn-based

dystopian

jet

military

robots

mmorpg

female protagonist

sci-fi

management

role playing

insanity

steam

overworld

multiple endings

apocalypse

mutants

online

building

artificial intelligence

open-world

dialogue trees

bible

sex

inventory

dark humor

car

slavery

racism

easter egg

dog

terraforming

hexagon

day/night cycle

cult

flamethrower

boss fight

explosion

spiritual successor

radiation

single-player only

female protagonists

alternate historical

credits menu option

throwing weapons

tactical turn-based combat

attributes

rivaling factions

customizable characters

leveling up

rope

top-down perspective

human

sexualized women

shopping

skill points

critical hit

rat

currency

gun

isometric viewpoint

armor

cults

knife

alcoholic beverages

puzzle platformer

original soundtrack release

experience points

shotgun

rocket launcher

non-player character

extreme violence

gog.com

fake in-game advertising

baseball bat

pistol

gatling gun

key

sniping

soft drink

double barreled shotgun

character creation

moral decisions

perks

pick your gender

reputation

using dialogue to avoid combat

magnum

questing

barrel

melee

combat knife

real-time combat

lgbt

blaster

game over

male antagonist

retro future

reward sound

laser

vending machine

theme song

reloading

mercenary

pills

sniper rifle

christianity

decapitation

action points

automap

the future

communism

rebels

nuclear bomb

healing food

level cap

dynamite

sidekick

blunt weapons

pacifist playthrough

experiments gone awry

bottle caps

grenade

dystopian world

onlive

guns and bullets

hobo

fetch quests

poverty

molotov cocktail

power armor

gore system

dismemberment

substance abuse benefit

crowbar

injury

multiple ammo types

inebriation

invisibility

random encounter

from zero to hero

lock picking

gas mask

jumpsuit

non-specific ammo

headshot

searching corpses

severed limbs

gibs

luck

nameless protagonist

anarchism

sociopath

vigilante

ammo

ghoul

rich snob

where are they now? ending

thumbs up

suggestive remark

trilogy

secondary weapons

two-handed weapons

sealing your own fate

pseudo non-linear

resourceful dogs

prostitute

prostitution

talking trees

death description

hunting rifle

condom

desert eagle

fictional currencies

utopian civilization

partners

buff

killing children

steroids

decontamination

the tardis

nonlinear development

limb targeting

nuclear war

nuclear holocaust

nuclear fallout

world war iii

reluctant hero

henchmen

instance

energy cell

removed from gog.com

groin strike

crotch damage

pay-to-play

diegetic manual

vendor trash

special system

nuka-cola

brahmin

deathclaw

brotherhood of steel

the great war

mole rat

radscorpion

super mutant

vault

pip-boy

buffout

mentats

rad-x

nuka-cola quantum

cherry nuka-cola

thermonuclear weapon

killing rats

stimpak

advanced computer modeling

water chip

uranium

cattle prod

alien blaster

xfire

stand alone complex

power fist

shotgun slug

neutral

e3 1997

f.e.v.

centaur

new california republic

nightkin

followers of the apocalypse

iguana-on-a-stick

radaway

super stimpak

.223 pistol

10mm round

5mm round

nuka grenade

psycho

stealth boy

gatling laser

dean's electronics

big book of science

first aid book

nuka-cola victory

nuka-cola quartz

doctor's bag

west tek

red ryder bb. gun

microfusion cell

bbs

scout handbook

lgbtq+


Developers

Interplay Entertainment

Black Isle Studios

Black Isle Studios


Publishers

Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment

MacPlay

Edusoft

Edusoft

Bethesda Softworks


Supporting Developers

The Omni Group


Store Info

Store Notes
Steam Fallout
Microsoft Store Fallout
Available via Game Pass
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