Fallout 3, 4, and New Vegas

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Fallout 3: Windows (Steam Deck YMMV), Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS3
Fallout 4: Windows (Steam Deck YMMV), Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5
Fallout: New Vegas: Windows (Steam Deck YMMV), Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS3

There’s a reason Starfield has so much hype behind it: Bethesda’s decades-long oeuvre of freeform, open-world RPGs has kept us all happily occupied exploring, conquering, and modding for years.

With Fallout, Bethesda brought its open-world RPG formula to an established science-fiction setting, one where you explore the remnants of a post-nuclear fallout world at your own pace as you traverse wonderfully immersive environments, meet interesting NPCs, and take on quests that are often seamlessly integrated into the natural ebb and flow of exploration.

That model is very much what we expect Starfield to follow, just on a grander scale and with spaceships. If you haven’t played any of the Fallout games, which includes the Obsidian-developed fan-favorite New Vegas, these are all excellent, enormous RPGs that can devour all of your free time if you so choose.