Between the boundless choice, retro-futuristic visual style, and sly sense of humor, one thing I tend to forget when playing Fallout is just how unremittingly bleak it can be. I think this applies most to Fallout New Vegas, especially on the survival-driven hardcore mode. The sun’s bearing down. You’re subsisting on murky bottles of old water. Boone is sitting there, lamenting his awful past in the NCR - at least until a Mother Deathclaw ragdolls him in one stroke, and you’re forced to quick load. With turn-based combat reminiscent of Darkest Dungeon, and a pixel-art style and focus on survival that brings to mind Terraria, a gorgeous new Steam RPG, available right now, feels like the brutality of Bethesda and Obsidian’s classic bottled and purified.
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