
But no mod can completely flesh out Fallout 4 ’s empty spaces. There’s one that lets you read dialogue choices before you say them, for instance, which is better than the irritatingly vague prompts you get otherwise. Modders have taken some of the sting out of Fallout 4 ’s disappointing design. Most of them don’t add story content, but build on the bland building system instead. That’s doubly true if you don’t have Fallout 4 ’s collection of paid expansions. So there’s little excuse not to play other, better construction sims like Subnautica to get your creative fix. What’s worse, they’re a real hassle to build at all.

Settlements don’t serve much mechanical purpose in the game. They’re just clunky, meaningless, or even serious downgrades over previous games.

Features like building your own settlements, a revised conversation system, and weapon crafting are all great on paper. It’s a real shame so few of them work well. Fallout 4įallout 4 tried a lot of new things. It mostly loses points on this particular list for, well, not being much of a Fallout game. Even though its length and complexity might test your patience at times. By those standards, and for its time, it’s quite good. Tactics is more like a small-scale strategy game than an RPG. In fact, the plot sports multiple inconsistencies with games that came before and after. You barely chat with NPCs and the story most certainly isn’t much to write home about. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steelįallout Tactics isn’t much of a Fallout game in the traditional sense. There’s no real endgame to Fallout Shelter besides waiting to click on more things. Some micro-transaction money can grease those wheels, but it’s all in service of nothing.

The mobile game nailed the look of Fallout ’s Vault Boy caricature and blew it on a lot of waiting around in real-time to click on stuff.

It’s a weird artifact of its era, but not much else.įallout Shelter is cute, but not every fun. It trades in the main games’ dark and quirky tone for a lot of mid-2000s edginess. It’s a somewhat passable action game where you mash through mobs of badly voice acted goons. That’s about all that’s notable about this particular game. Let the subjective, post-apocalyptic appreciation begin!īrotherhood of Steel is notably the last Fallout game made by Interplay, the series’ original creators. We’ve hammered this list of every official Fallout game released so far and ranked them all-along with some justifications for why each game goes where-in order of worst to best. So before the multiplayer RPG goes live, we at Fanbyte wanted to cement our opinion on the rest of the series. Fallout 76 is imminent (at least as we’re writing this article).
