

For better or worse, here are the games of Fallout, from worst to best. Hidden in the vast legacy of failure are markers revealing what the trajectory of Fallout might have been if Bethesda hadn’t taken the reins from Interplay and ushered the series onto console. Fallout Extreme, another console Interplay title all but doomed to fail. Project V13, aka the Fallout MMO, a game that was never meant to be. Fallout Tactics 2, the sequel to Tactics that never got past the concept stage.

Van Buren, the Black Isle Studios’ version of Fallout 3 that was cancelled near completion. Fallout 76 came now long after, and now that it’s been out for several months, we’re ready to give it a spot on this list.Īs we now celebrate and rank the core Fallout games, let us remember the many sidelined and ill-fated Fallout projects that time has almost forgotten: A Fallout game on PlayStation that never left pre-production. We first ran this list right at the end of Fallout’s 20th anniversary year, which Bethesda celebrated by giving away the game that started it all. Since their official debut in 1997, the series has passed through many hands, changing in tone and format as it has shifted and evolved from a celebrated (but perhaps niche) PC game to a big budget shooter-RPG that is wildly popular on almost every console all over the world. But you know what has changed a lot over the years? The Fallout games.
