Single-player games like Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
You've just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization.
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
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ATOM RPG Trudograd
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
ATOM RPG: Trudograd is a turn-based post-apocalyptic roleplaying game, which continues the story of ATOM RPG as a stand-alone sequel/expansion, and follows the traditions set by classic cRPGs such as the early Fallout and Wasteland titles.
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UnderRail
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.
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Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.
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Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
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Fallout: New Vegas
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Pillars of Eternity
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
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Dragon Age™ Inquisition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
Winner of over 130 Game of the Year awards, discover the definitive Dragon Age: Inquisition experience. The Game of the Year Edition includes the critically acclaimed game, all three official add-ons - Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent, and Trespasser - and more.
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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The Outer Worlds
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?
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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
A new legacy begins...
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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
An old-school hack-and-slash action RPG awaits! Pick one of five heroes, defeat monstrous enemies with weapons and spells, loot treasure and level up in this classic D&D fantasy adventure.
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Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
Single-player alternative to Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.
A champion will rise and change the course of history. As a descendent of King Richard the Lionheart, prepare to battle the forces of evil in an alternate Europe transformed by magic. Choose your race, skills, and abilities, and begin your quest in this darkened alternative world.