Hi!
I have a question, are there any games other then the fallout series with a similar dystopian/post apocalyptic theme about them?
After playing Fallout 3 i wanted to play the original games aswell (and was pleasantly surprised you could get them here at such a good price) and after so much fallout im just hooked on this dystopian setting.
Any similar classics i should be aware of, or newer games for that matter :p
PS: i know, i should be ashamed for having played fallout 3 before 1 and 2 ;-)

Well, if you're into adventure games, give Beneath A Steel Sky a spin. It's pretty post-apocalyptic too, even though it mostly takes place in the new closed elitist civilization. And it's free ;-)
But I like the whole post-apocalypse theme too. If anyone has more suggestions, please bring them to the table.
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Additionally here's a link to the "Apocalypse Now" category at Home Of The Underdogs. It should be chock-full of potential GOG-candidates.

If you are into FPS you could always check out the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game. It got some rpg elements too and a great atmosphere.

Alot of great suggestions, looks very interesting, thanks for these reccomendations! :)
There's alot more out there then i would have imagined.
Many thanks!

The closet thing to Fallout, regarding the setting, would be "The Fall - Last Days of Gaia". Visual style is similar with a barren wasteland etc, too.
Whereas Deus Ex has a completely different visual style, as in lots of city, houses etc, and you are more in rooms, in high-tech buildings etc, as compared to Fallout with huge outdoor areas and many caves. More like always in Vaults/military bases.
And Stalker is an FPS, so not that much RPG elements, and it has pretty high requirements (well, today it isn't that big of a problem for a new computer, but back then..and i know many people, especially those who like story and nice visuals (as in looking appealing even years later, and not just (perhaps not even close) realistic. And it has less wasteland, too.
Not that "barren wasteland" is a must, it's just that there aren't that many games with the visual style of the Fallout games.
I also want to use the chance to recommend Dystopia, a cyberpunk game (mod) for the source engine. All you need is Steam, which for itself is free, and Source SDK Base (which comes with CSS, Portal, TF2, L4D and many more games, as low as $4,99 if you don't have any game that gives you Sorce SDK Base yet) and you are good. Dystopia itself is of course free.
It's an objective based FPS, with three different classes, many maps and weapons, implants, cyberspace (hacking) etc. It also includes extensive stats tracking and a competitive league for all your nerdy needs.
Of course, you need to play it online (well, you can play it alone/lan, too, but whats the point...). The next big update with many bugfixes, some new maps and lots of updates to the old ones is arriving any time now, and it will become a Steamworks mod then, which makes a lot of things easier.
It's not that easy to learn, which keeps many people from playing it, but most people like to help you (there are not-so-friendly people everywhere, keep that in mind) if you ask and not just shoot teammates. And if you take your time, you can get into it pretty fast, and then it's lots of fun.
Of course, there isn't that much story, as you just can't do that in a multiplayer (unless it's coop..) setting.

You can always try Metalheart: Replicant's Rampage...but it is kind of bad. Your mileage may vary though.

If it doesn't have to be sci-fi, I highly recommend Dark Sun: Shattered Lands. It's an old AD&D Gold Box game, one of my favorite RPGs, and one of the very few games set in Dark Sun.
Athas is essentially a post-apocalyptic fantasy world, having been torn apart by destructive mage wars in the past. Much of the planet is a wasteland, with most settlements either being small villages or independant city-states ruled by sorcerer-kings. Your group of four begins the game as slaves in a gladiator pit.
Dystopian games seem to be a bit less common than post-apocalyptic games. I'm not sure I can help much there.

STALKER definitely has the closest feel. However, one could argue Half-Life 2 is post-apocalyptic. (it's a singleplayer linear adventure though)

What about Blade Runner?
[url=]http://www.mobygames.com/game/blade-runner[/url]
Its an Adventure from 1997 and it perfectly fits into the Dystopia-Theme.
And as I can't find my CD i would love to find it on GOG.
That goes for the Syndicate Games as well.
[url=]http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/syndicate[/url]
[url=]http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/syndicate-wars[/url]

Ah, Syndicate..that remembers me that i wanted to play it a while (last year or so) ago, and it didn't work properly :/

Would Arx Fatalis qualify as a dystopian game of sorts considering how the entirety of the human race has to live underground, with goblins and the like,because the surface world has become darkened??

Zero Population Count would definitely fall under the whole dystopian/post-apocalyptic setting. It's an FPS but it has its own unique art style to it.

Thank you for these suggestions, im going to give Dark Sun and the Syndicate a try, il also check out dystopia, havent had any multiplayer fun for a while so this might be just what i need :)
Thanks for all suggestions, you've given me plenty to check out.
Now the hard part, finding them. :-p
i hope some of these titles will make it to GoG.

This has *nothing* to do with post apocalyptic futur but if you loved fallout 1/2, you HAVE to try out "arcanum". It was made by troika games (company created by former black isle [=fallout] employees) and as such has a lots of the things you can find in fallout:
- gigantic world, full of quests, dialogs, etc etc + a main plot. Not just a big empty dead world like you see in most games. Oh, let me rephrase this, gigantic. New Reno was for kids.
- depending on your character, the game will vary a lot, what you can be range from a mongoloid evil half-ogre crushing everything while yelling "braaaahhh" to a magical benevolent elf way too smart to resolve a quest by fighting ... And I didn't even speak about that angry technological dwarf building its own shotgun yet :P
- (good) jokes and dialogs and sarcasm and references everywhere. The game is smart and assume that you are too.
I'm usually not much of a heroic-fantasy fan but this game was basically "fallout meet tolkien, mixed by talented developers". As for the universe setting, you could sum it up by "magical world full of dwarf/ork/ogre/elf/whatever discovers the steam engine and trouble ensue ... pick your side :)". Besides this magic/technology rift there is the "good guy/bad guy" one you could already see in the fallout series, although it is better implemented in arcacum (playing the bad guy doesn't mean half the quests stop working).
Check it out, I guarantee you will enjoy it (it works fine on XP).
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcanum:_Of_Steamworks_and_Magick_Obscura]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcanum:_Of_Steamworks_and_Magick_Obscura[/url]