Everything We Know About the Upcoming Fallout Game by Obsidian
Obsidian is officially returning to the Fallout universe. Here is everything we know.
Everything we know so far
This is a living dossier, meaning we will be adding content as we learn more.
Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind acclaimed RPGs like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, Neverwinter Nights 2, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Pillars of Eternity, The Outer Worlds, Avowed, and the cult classic Alpha Protocol. Most notably, they developed Fallout: New Vegas, which remains a massive fan favorite.
Expect first- or third-person shooter mechanics set across a radioactive wasteland populated by mutated creatures, raiders, and surviving factions. You’ll start as a survivor stepping out into the ruins, scavenging for gear, managing radiation levels, and leveling up your stats and Perks to suit your playstyle.
Obsidian will almost certainly build the game using Bethesda’s Creation Engine (either Creation Engine 2, used for Starfield, or an updated Creation Engine 3 iteration planned for The Elder Scrolls VI). While rumors occasionally mention Unreal Engine 5, using Bethesda’s proprietary tech makes the most sense now that Obsidian is reporting directly under the Bethesda umbrella. Creation Engine is specifically tailored for sharing modular assets, world-building tools, and deep object tracking across studios, which will significantly speed up development.
Fallout games traditionally follow a core narrative catalyst: you begin inside an underground Vault engineered to preserve a fraction of humanity after nuclear devastation. Under the impression that the outside world is a lifeless wasteland, an unforeseen crisis forces you out into the open, where you discover complex societies, warring factions, and bizarre post-nuclear subcultures thriving on the surface.
Where Obsidian excels is taking this foundation and elevating it past standard tropes. Their narrative design avoids black-and-white morality in favor of dark humor, political intrigue, and meaningful player choice. Fallout: New Vegas proved how far they could stretch the universe's lore - a legacy so impactful that Amazon's live-action Fallout series heavily pulls its central world-building and narrative themes directly from Obsidian's work.
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