14+ Video games To Play After Cyberpunk 2077

If you’d like extra: First-person RPGs with large environments and tons of quests and actions
Notable variations: Publish-apocalyptic setting, not as a lot of an action-oriented expertise
Availability:
Fallout 3: Home windows (Steam Deck YMMV), Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence S/X, PS3
Fallout: New Vegas: Home windows (Steam Deck YMMV), Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence S/X, PS3
Fallout 4: Home windows (Steam Deck YMMV), Xbox One, Xbox Sequence S/X, PS4, PS5

When you’re in search of one other open-world, first-person RPG set in a science fiction world, it’s laborious to cross up the current Fallout video games. That includes worlds which can be much more open to exploration with and plenty of, many extra quests, testing Fallout 3, 4, and New Vegas looks like a pure development after enjoying Cyberpunk.

Fallout takes place after a nuclear catastrophe, so it falls extra into the post-apocalyptic class of science fiction. However like Cyberpunk, Fallout could be very within the theater of its fictional tech: You’ll come throughout all types of fascinating contraptions, some made within the apocalypse, some barely frozen in time behind locked doorways, buried in labyrinths of a world-now-gone. Except for in Fallout 4, your protagonist will probably be silent. And usually the narrative isn’t as dominating as 2077’s.

Fallout has a barely slower tempo than Cyberpunk. You gained’t be zipping round in quick automobiles or engaged in split-second fight. Whereas aiming is vital, most fight conditions make the most of the semi-freeze body V.A.T.S. system that permits you to goal enemies’ particular physique elements. I’ve all the time discovered that so as to add a satisfying stage of pseudo-turn-based motion that also feels near actual time. And there are all kinds of builds you may strive over the course of the sport. Generally the fight exhibiting off your character’s aesthetics and heroic feats greater than Cyberpunk 2077 ever does—you hardly ever see V after the character creation display screen.

When you’re solely going to choose one among these, I like to recommend going with New Vegas. It’s one of the best, interval Fallout 4 may really feel slightly extra fashionable, however its narrative isn’t as fascinating and it’s slightly too overburdened with busywork like base constructing and prompts to go and assist yet one more settlement that’s coping with some raiders or radioactive monstrosity. God, I’m drained simply writing that.

When you wrapped 2077’s marketing campaign and wish one other immersive first-person RPG to leap into, Fallout ought to be one among your first stops.