If You Really Enjoyed The Fallout Games, There's One Franchise You Should Try Next

The franchise has become one of gaming's most popular franchises over the years, with its popularity recently being boosted by the Amazon Prime series. As apocalyptic, nuclear wasteland game franchises go, is perhaps the mascot of the industry and thrives thanks to its retro-futuristic setting. It is one of Bethesda's flagship franchises and popular enough with fans for them to make grand projects, like 's total conversion of. Still, Bethesda hasn't released a new game since and likely won't until after, so players may need to look for a fix elsewhere.

Although the setting has always remained consistent, as a gaming series changed genres when it got to its third installment. Before that, games were isometric CRPGs known for their brilliant writing and world-building. Now, is an action RPG series with shooter elements that rely heavily on the freedom that the open world gives its players. Some prefer modern while others prefer the classics, and for those who prefer the CRPG route, the franchise is definitely worth checking out.

The franchise is a part of the post-apocalyptic CRPG genre that was largely boosted by the original games. Despite being the flagship franchise for the genre, is actually older,with the first game being released in 1988, and is known for its extraordinary difficulty. Since then, it has evolved into a 3D, isometric, squad-based CRPG franchise with its third title, which was released relatively recently in early 2020, and continued to enjoy DLC afterward.

was developed with the Unity Engine, a popular engine for indie games.

The connection to the franchise has been something that the series has enjoyed or perhaps suffered from, depending on who people ask. In fact, was developed by Interplay Productions, later known as Interplay Entertainment. Interplay worked on the series later on, with and, as well as the franchise.

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