Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Game
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Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Developer Black Isle Studios
Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a 1998 role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Productions. It is a sequel to Fallout (1997), featuring similar graphics and game mechanics. The game's story takes place in 2241, roughly 80 years after the events of Fallout and 164 years after the atomic war which reduced the vast majority of the world to a nuclear wasteland.… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
402 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
90
LovedLoved
244 positive · 27 negative
95% range 86–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 244 | 27 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 37 | 5 | 70 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 6 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
10,388 of 11,078 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
91% recommend · 224 yes, 23 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 247 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (16,482 of 17,556 positive).
Many recommend installing the Restoration Project mod to restore cut content and improve stability. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note technical issues like bugs, crashes, and save corruption, especially on Steam. [2][4]
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Representative posts
- [4]
Buggy laggy and unfun. It's a shame too since it has a cool storyline and I like the gameplay of traditional fallout games. I uninstalled when it corrupted my save I worked so hard on. None of these problems are present in fallout 1 btw. I don't know if it's specific to the steam version or something to do with compatibility but my god this felt like playing a Bethesda game with the amount of crashing and game …
- [10]
"It's 106 miles to Arroyo, we got a full fusion cell, half a pack of RadAway, it's midnight, and I'm wearing a 50-year old Vault 13 jumpsuit. Let's hit it." My heart breaks by thinking that there's people out there who will never play Fallout 2 due to the fact it's a clunky isometric RPG from the 90s. Does it hurt the game? Absolutely: its popularity among Fallout fans out there stings. Because otherwise, this is a …
- [8]
For a very long time I thought New Vegas couldn't be topped, but then Fallout 2 went and proved me wrong. It's a big ask for a Gen Z smoothskin like myself to enjoy a turn based CRPGs made in the late 90s, and yet Fallout 2 grabs you by the balls with its world, story and side content and refuses to let them go. It's got a huge variety of content ranging in tone but all as equally well written, it's got iconic …
- [6]
My favourite game. The game that made my childhood much more fun. The rpg elements are at its peak (you can be a slaver, gigolo, a honorable guy, a villain ...), There are lots to do. Many memorable characters exist like sergant Dornan (The enclave sergant that yells at you lol) to Marcus, Goris, Sulik etc. Your actions really change the fate of the wasteland. You can drive a highwayman (car, kinda bugged but cool), …
- [19]
Well...It’s old, ugly, brutally unfair, and still smarter than most modern RPGs.
Summarised from 34 of the 360 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game sits at 90% positive across 271 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Fallout 2 received critical acclaim, according to the review aggregator websites Metacritic and GameRankings. It was a finalist for "PC Role-Playing Game of the Year" during the AIAS' 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, along with nominations for role-playing game of the year awards from Computer Gaming World, GameSpot, CNET Gamecenter, and IGN; all were ultimately given to Baldur's Gate. The editors of GameSpot wrote, "A bigger, better Fallout, this sequel to 1997's RPG of the Year was populated with more characters, more places to go, and more things to do." Positive reviewers praised the gameplay, storyline, and worthiness as a successor to the original Fallout, while detractors…
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Reactions
60 of 402 · most liked first1. Go to the club 2. Sleep with the club owner's wife, steal all the things and leave 3. Back to the club again and sleep with his daughter 10/10 best western RPG
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Steam or the publishers have decided to censor the original content without refund or options to deny their changes. Buy a hard copy online or torrent it. Otherwise the game is a masterpiece.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Caught the Pip-Boy in Fallout 2 wishing me a happy Valentine's Day and it had me staring at my screen like this. Yeah cheers game 🤙
positive · AI labelView post →Oh hey, i'm a new companion in the next Fallout game!~ Finally another Deathclaw companion aside from the one on Fallout 2.~ Awesome early bday gift from @foxvhen.bsky.social made by @saintdraconis.bsky.social. I'm in love with Deathclaw snep, hope you all like It too. 🤍
neutral · AI labelView post →📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 The one-two punch of Baldur's Gate and Fallout 2 in late '98. With Black Isle and BioWare at the helm, Interplay would deliver two of my favourite CRPG experiences. Baldur's Gate especially has a special place in my heart. 💜 📺: Dragon Magazine, October 1998
positive · AI labelView post →Like, there's a visceral 'realness' to the version of Fallout 2 that played out in my head that is completely absent in the Bethesda Fallouts because things are simply rendered in a way that feels more like a tabletop game map than a literal world meant to be taken verbatim.
positive · AI labelView post →interestingly, Fallout 2 was also the first game to allow same-sex marriage, beating out the Sims by two years and the Netherlands by a year
neutral · AI labelView post →Vault City Game: Fallout 2 Dev: Black Isle Studios 🇺🇸 Release: 29 October 1998
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallout reference in Mixtape, I went full Leo pointing at the screen when I saw this! The game is set late 90s, but Fallout 2 came out 98 so I'll allow it 😆
neutral · AI labelView post →"It's 106 miles to Arroyo, we got a full fusion cell, half a pack of RadAway, it's midnight, and I'm wearing a 50-year old Vault 13 jumpsuit. Let's hit it." My heart breaks by thinking that there's people out there who will never play Fallout 2 due to the fact it's a clunky isometric RPG from the 90s. Does it hurt the game? Absolutely: its popularity among Fallout fans out there stings. Because otherwise, this is a jewel whose nuance was barely captured ever since in the following…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The NCR is an imperial power dead set on recreating the mistakes of the Old World. However, it is also something that Ceaser's Legion is not: A stable nation state that can *change.* This is more communicated by seeing the game as it exists in conversation with Fallout 2, but it's there!
neutral · AI labelView post →> Play for almost 30 hours > Tries to see every place and talk to everyone > Finally decides it's time to face the Enclave > Talk to everyone who I can > Agree 100% with their plan and goals > Take every chem in my inventory and overdose in front of the president > Close game Long Live The Enclave
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How come this game is from 1998, and yet it is better than the vast majority of all games that were produced after it?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The "evil route" in this game is like if Fallout 2 allowed you join the Enclave, subdue all the cities & factions, then decide if you serve the President or kill him and take his place. It's so fun! Again, really wish more people played & discussed these games... they do so many interesting things.
neutral · AI labelView post →For those curious about the mystery box we opened tonight: we got a bangin' box of PS2 games! What a heccin gift!! 🥰 Fallout 2 unfortunately had a few tech issues - but at least we still made progress in game and I still had fun with everybody❤️ Thank you all so much for hanging with me tonight!
positive · AI labelView post →Day 13: A song that reminds you of a first kiss #MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Louis Armstrong - A Kiss To Build A Dream On youtu.be/d_E6IJ7Yjdc?... This is the intro song of the fabulous Fallout 2 video game
neutral · AI labelView post →Like it's especially infuriating because both Fallout 2 and Fallout New Vegas took at least a neutral ending from the game before and made it canon. The Fallout show seems committed to making the most evil nihilistic playthrough of FNV canon. And it *sucks.* Cause I sure didn't choose that.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallout 2 was released only one year after the first game, though that didn't stop it from being a major improvement in many ways. More focus on allies, some substantial rebalancing, a more in-depth story and in general just more content - it's about 4 or 5 times as large as the original game.
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to play a cool video game that's 1: Sorta like Fallout. 2: Has significant building and farm sim parts 3: Romancing, even a touch naughty. 4: Creatives never forced to crunch 5: Creatives share in success & revenue 6: Creatives encouraged into smaller "pet projects" until next big release.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallout 2 really is the Chosen One tripping on Jet the entire game
positive · AI labelView post →The pitch started out because I went "I would like to make an RPG that surpasses Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura and Fallout 2, but it needs to actually feel good as hell to play" and we made a world and narrative and some game design shit that's... gonna do WEIRD shit to your brain. :)
neutral · AI labelView post →erika and I have finished season 1 of Fallout 1, and we're onto Fallout 2 and I love how the opening of episode 2 is like, "Okay, video game players are already sad and mad about what happened to the NCR, but we need to make sure that the TV show watchers feel it too"
neutral · AI labelView post →if you, like me, enjoyed Fallout 1/2 and wish they'd've made more of those (New Vegas is very good but it is a very different game!): check out Fallout: Sonora, built on the Fallout 2 engine the latest build uses an open source implementation of FO2, you don't even need the original to play!
neutral · AI labelView post →Bethesda should let another studio make a isometrical Fallout game, if not just let them remake Fallout 2. I'd fore sure play a modern take on classic Fallout.
positive · AI labelView post →Last Fallout Day post, not aesthetics related but this Fallout 2 guide is probably the best guide I've ever read for a game. It's spoiler heavy but if you're interested in uncovering everything in Fallout 2 this is the ultimate resource. lemmings19.github.io/fallout-2-wa...
positive · AI labelView post →Hold it! It's a new stream schedule! This week, we'll be hunting in Monster Hunter Wilds, checking out an indie game demo with Switcheroo, and questing in Fallout 2! On the weekend, we'll be finishing the first game of The Great Ace Attorney duology! Let's do our best! ✨⚔️
neutral · AI labelView post →Restoration Project for cut content & Talking Heads mod. Dont forget to install these. How many times did I finish this game? Way too many and I am still mad with love, there is something satisfying about dismantling and sometimes abusing Fallout2. Every encounter, every companion and gear upgrade feels good. Every quest with multiple solutions or failures. Be good or evil in vast apocalyptic world. Shape your future. Yes its my fav game of all time and I've beaten all mods: Nevada, Sonora,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fallout .... is DONE the first step of the journey. Fallout 2 awaits me. Tremendous, monumental game. A little uneven and a little shaky ... but CRITICAL - everybody should play it. Delightful time and briskly paced for an RPG.
positive · AI labelView post →☢️ HAPPY THERMONUCLEAR THURSDAY Y'ALL ☢️ I know it's only my first playthrough of Fallout 2, but I'm kinda obsessed with this game. Every week I look forward to jumping back into the wasteland and seeing what adventures we get into next. Let's dive in~ 💙 Live now 🔴 Twitch.tv/Emidivergent
positive · AI labelView post →For a very long time I thought New Vegas couldn't be topped, but then Fallout 2 went and proved me wrong. It's a big ask for a Gen Z smoothskin like myself to enjoy a turn based CRPGs made in the late 90s, and yet Fallout 2 grabs you by the balls with its world, story and side content and refuses to let them go. It's got a huge variety of content ranging in tone but all as equally well written, it's got iconic locations that are quite frankly unforgettable in it's diversity and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"He said the team believed they were following the structure of earlier entries in the series, where completing the story concluded the game." how the fuck can Bethesda be so ignorant of Fallout 2 when Fallout 3 is all "hey, remember all this stuff from Fallout 2 that makes zero sense over here?"
neutral · AI labelView post →To the best of my personal knowledge, Fallout 2 was the first game that let you choose to have a gay or lesbian marriage.
positive · AI labelView post →one of the best RPGs of all time, just be sure to get the latest restoration patch and disable vsync
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another backloggd video game thing I can't stop lol Extremely hard to pick for 1998; feel like RE2, Fallout 2, and Half-Life and more should be here but just goes to show what an insanely stacked year that was.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is basically my same thoughts on the first game but Fallout 2 has significantly more content although a more varied tone, whereas the first has a simple dark tone, this one goes from dark to funny to dark and then outlandish. I highly recommend downloading the "fallout 2 restoration patch" that reintroduces cut content that the base game does not contain. However this should only be done on a second playthrough. But to go on with my review and thoughts. Extremely good old game. Can crash…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent CRPG this and the first game are worth playing if you're a fan of actual role playing in your RPGs. Would have been swell if we'd gotten the Van Buren version of Fallout 3 but we did get New Vegas at least. Would be hilarious to see Microsoft mandate Bethesda to remake the two OG Fallouts... don't doubt its on the back burner if what's left of Obsidian can't recapture the magic of FONV with their next FO game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I NEED a remaster of this fallout specifically please. Genuinely could be better than NV
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good news! Fallout 1 works on my linux what what however, I forgot that 99% of the time I play Fallout 1, I'm actually playing Fallout 1 in 2, where Fallout 1's game is played in the Fallout 2 engine, and I forgot how many genuine improvements F2's engine has
positive · AI labelView post →My favourite game. The game that made my childhood much more fun. The rpg elements are at its peak (you can be a slaver, gigolo, a honorable guy, a villain ...), There are lots to do. Many memorable characters exist like sergant Dornan (The enclave sergant that yells at you lol) to Marcus, Goris, Sulik etc. Your actions really change the fate of the wasteland. You can drive a highwayman (car, kinda bugged but cool), wear power armor, see enemies explode, despite the old graphics the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For reference: Chris Avellon is a game developer, mainly known for his work and attributions to Fallout 2 and project designer in the dlcs of F:NV among other games Nowadays he works independently and mainly posts rants on Twitter of how Fallout sucks nowadays
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallout 2 is the best game in the series because no others allow you to set off an explosion that covers an entire town in shit
neutral · AI labelView post →Show your resolve! It's a new stream schedule! This week, we'll be returning to the usual Monster Hunter Wilds and Mount & Blade: Warband, and questing in The Den in Fallout 2! On the weekend, we'll be starting the second game of The Great Ace Attorney duology! Let's do our best! ✨⚔️
neutral · AI labelView post →Well...It’s old, ugly, brutally unfair, and still smarter than most modern RPGs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you played any other fallout game....this one is better of all of them together. Played it more then 20 years ago and boy oh boy was it good. First fallout is little short tho. This one is just perfect
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Improves on everything from fallout 1. Its insane how a game like this can be 20x more immersive than its successors
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game besides the numerous times my bullets miss 3 times in a row at 95 percent in vats when it matters the most.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You missed You missed You missed You missed You missed You missed You missed I was born two months premature. When I was one, I was dropped on the porch. When I was two, I had pneumonia. When I was three, I got the chicken pox. When I was four, I fell down the stairs and broke six ribs. When I was five, my uncle was decapitated by a watermelon. When I was six, my parents hit me in the head with a shovel. When I was seven, I lost my right index finger to my pet Rat. When I was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Before I get into the actual review - This is before the plague that is Bethesda. This and the first Fallout are where most of us got hooked. Awesome lore, loads of love, tons of easter eggs; Once you're in the flow of the gameplay enough, it can keep you sated for days on end. This is an old gem, and I hope more folks get to appreciate how much it can shine once you spend a few turns dusting it off. Great atmosphere, good music, lots to love.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A 1998 advertisement for Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game, the sequel to 1997's Fallout for PC platforms Taking place eighty years after the events of the first game, the RPG will pit players against new threats and challenges in their quest for a GECK -- a Garden of Eden Creation Kit!
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallout 2 is an extremely good game but also oof ow ouch the early game difficulty curve is rough. OTOH starting as a gal with a spear in a world of SMGs does make you feel awesome once you can finally survive one (1) random encounter without hearing the dulcet tones of the game over narration.
positive · AI labelView post →Every time you interact with an object in Fallout 2 (like a door), you're guy does the little 67 gesture. Prophetic game.
neutral · AI labelView post →one of the best parts about beating Fallout 2 is that the game keeps running after the credits play, so you can go to New Reno and get the Fallout 2 Hint Book from Father Tully and then pull out your YK42B Pulse Rifle and render everyone in the casinos into ash
positive · AI labelView post →you can be a p0rnstar and slaver in this game (pure role play) i can say it's one of the best games i ever played
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →18 games into my game journal thing and Fallout 2 is still in the running for my favorite thing I played this year
positive · AI labelView post →Damn near perfect CRPG. The humor hasn't aged as well as New Vegas's, for every hilarious moment there's some real "wow the 90s was a different country, huh" moments, but this game swings for the fences in ways that stand out from just about everything else, and does things with the mechanics and environmental design later installments won't or can't accomplish. Most prominently is the presence of Jet in the game: it's not just a consumable buff potion you anachronistically run across in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →KIWO STREAMER IS PLAYING THROUGH FALLOUT 2 LIVE NOW LIVE STREAMING STREAMER KIWO DOING A LIVESTREAM AND IT'S MORE FALLOUT I'M HOOKED IS A GOOD GAME twitch.tv/kiwo
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallout 2 is certainly a game
neutral · AI labelView post →I've started playing Fallout 2 and I know this game has a rep for being very wacky, but even just two hours in I'm already like "damn, they are not holding back on the jokes" lol
positive · AI labelView post →Playing Fallout 1: It's ok if this game irreparably breaks because it's only a handful of hours long, NBD. Playing Fallout 2: If this game irreparably breaks I'm throwing my whole fucking computer in a wood chipper.
positive · AI labelView post →TBF I’d forgive any of Fallout 2’s flaws because it was the only game I knew of that had a side quest that was built around sucking dick (well fluffing but still). Much like with Arsenal and the rainbow laces campaign I’m a sucker for queer adjacent stuff from my teens & 20’s.
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