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Game entry

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

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

After 253 duels settled by the community, Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game stands no. 56 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,860 ELO points and 73% of wins. Against Disco Elysium, the opponent it meets most often, the tally stands at 2 wins to 2 losses in 4 duels. Its best rank by family puts it at no. 2 out of 77 (1997).

World rank

no. 56

ELO score

1,860

Wins

73%

Duels played

253

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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 1,860 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

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

  1. 53 Pokémon Red Version 1,862
  2. 54 Paper Mario 1,862
  3. 55 Doom 1,860
  4. 56 Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game 1,860
  5. 57 StarCraft 1,857
  6. 58 Resident Evil Village 1,857
  7. 59 Final Fantasy IV 1,857

Released in 1997

The standing

Where Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 2 out of 77 (1997).

Where Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 56 5,035
RPG 4 87
1990s 9 659
1997 2 77

The community

The debate

33 comments

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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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