Game

Wasteland 2

2014 · PlayStation 4 · Linux · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · Xbox One · Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS)

76IGDB player score
96 ratings

Previously Take

A respectable 76 average that never found its audience. Survival is the whole game — scarce resources, bad odds, and every small win feeling huge. No multiplayer, no problem — the campaign carries the whole thing.

About this game

Wasteland 2 is a post-apocalyptic role-playing video game developed by inXile Entertainment and published by Deep Silver. It is the sequel to 1988's Wasteland, and was successfully crowdfunded through Kickstarter.

The game is set in an alternate history timeline, in which a nuclear holocaust took place in 1998 in relation to an impact event involving a cluster of meteors that sparked a global nuclear war. On the day of the cataclysm, a company of U.S. Army Engineers were in the desolate southwestern desert constructing bridges in an area with a number of small survivalist communities and a newly constructed federal death row prison with light industrial facilities. The soldiers sought shelter in the prison, expelled the inmates and invited nearby survivalists to join them shortly thereafter. Years later, together they formed "the Desert Rangers, in the great tradition of the Texas and Arizona Rangers", to help other survivors in the desert and beyond it.