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Game entry

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

1997 · RPG, Survival · PC, Mac, Linux, DOS, OnLive · Edusoft

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is ranked no. 13 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,922 and 73% of duels won.

World rank

no. 13

ELO score

1,922

Wins

73%

Duels played

228

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About Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

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.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,922 ELO points over the last 123 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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The games Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 10 Stardew Valley 1,925
  2. 11 Persona 5 1,925
  3. 12 Divinity: Original Sin II 1,925
  4. 13 Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game 1,922
  5. 14 Fallout: New Vegas 1,921
  6. 15 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1,921
  7. 16 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 1,921

Released in 1997

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  1. IronKnight2004

    My roommate and I split the Vault dwellers between us, one reading dialogue out loud while the other rolled the dice on combat.

    LlewellynPilot

    Same energy here. Split screen time, shared save, still holds up.

  2. Mariah_93

    I keep seeing it praised as if it never ages, but I'm not totally sure the difficulty holds up as well as people claim.

    TurboBard95

    Difficulty aside, it keeps winning because it never pads itself out waiting for you to notice.

    Puente51

    Cierto, la dificultad varía mucho según la build que hagas (a mí me destrozó una build floja al inicio), pero no le quita mérito.

  3. WallaceKnight

    Why does this still beat games twenty years younger than it in these duels?

    Tristan_42

    Un vote au feeling contre un chip d'eau cassé, ça résume bien pourquoi ce classement restera toujours un peu absurde et attachant.

    Altenwerth31

    Same duel, same result for me too, and I never even left that first vault settlement

    Makenna_60

    Funny, calling it younger than twenty when for some of us it's basically the whole reason we got into this.

  4. Bayer15

    Never finished it, only a handful of hours total, but I still remember the first settlement clearly.

    jmetz

    Same old PC that overheated, mine had a fan that screamed like it was dying, and somehow that machine still ran this beautifully

    Océane_1987

    Quelques heures ou pas, l'interface qui rame un peu se sent tout de suite, même sur ces premières parties.

  5. stephen_schumm

    Every duel it wins against something younger feels less like an upset and more like the ranking just confirming what it already knew.

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