Wasteland Remastered (2020)

Developer: inXile Entertainment
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Rating: 3.4 of 5, 8 player ratings
Main story: about 35 hours
Where to get it: Xbox

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How it feels

A slow, tactical RPG where every choice matters in a bleak, irradiated wasteland.

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About

Originally released in 1988, Wasteland brought the post-apocalypse to video games and inspired a genre. Play one of history's defining RPGs with completely overhauled graphics, sound, and expanded musical score. The year is 2087, nearly a century after an all-out nuclear war turned vast swaths of the Earth into a radioactive hellscape. You are a Desert Ranger, a band of stalwart lawmen who are the only hope left in what was once the American southwest, and good people's last defense against hunger, sickness, ravaging raiders, and mutants. Now something more secretive and sinister is menacing humanity, and it's your job to investigate. Recruit help and follow leads - the choices you make will shape the world around you. Choose wisely, your life and the lives of those you're sworn to protect depend on it.

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