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The Outer Worlds might have hoped to be a spiritual successor, but the Wasteland series is Fallout’s own spiritual predecessor. RELATED: Fallout New Vegas: 10 NPCs With Hidden Agendas Not all Fallout fans will be looking for a first-person RPG at all, however. Not only that, but without Bethesda’s engine to work in, the world lacks interactivity.Īs small as it may sound, The Outer Worlds doesn’t allow the player to zoom out and see their character, sit in chairs, or do many of the other little things that make the up-close and personal perspective of a first-person RPG more immersive.

Enemies, weapons, and armor lack variety, encounters outside of towns are almost always unavoidably hostile, and the towns themselves are surprisingly small. Instead of a crafting system, The Outer Worlds only allows the player to make a few weapon modifications. Like the World’s Fair exhibitions that inspired its aesthetic, however, The Outer Worlds is packed full of interesting concepts that never quite got off the ground. In theory, The Outer Worlds should have been the perfect Fallout substitute, especially for players who preferred Obsidian’s New Vegas to Bethesda’s Fallout 4. Not only was The Outer Worlds created by Obsidian, but it was directed by the creators of the Fallout series, Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky. The similarities between the series are no surprise. Just as the post-apocalyptic Fallout world maintains the ‘50s aesthetic from the rough time the timeline diverged, The Outer Worlds’ advertising and architecture resembles concepts from the Pan-American Exposition.

This allowed him to finish his term and prevented Theodore Roosevelt becoming president and pushing through anti-trust laws, leading to the hyper-capitalist space-bound society seen in The Outer Worlds. In The Outer Worlds’ case, President McKinley was never assassinated at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901. Just like Fallout, The Outer Worlds is a first-person RPG set in the future of a timeline that diverged from real-world history in the 20th century. If there was ever game more poised to spiritually succeed the Fallout franchise, it was The Outer Worlds.