Fallout 3 (2008) is the game that brought the post-apocalyptic series into first-person 3D and a fully open world, and this grouping pairs it with its expansions. Made by Bethesda, it drops you out of an underground Vault into the irradiated ruins of Washington D.C. in search of a missing father, then largely turns you loose to wander a bombed-out capital wasteland at your own pace. The freedom to ignore the plot and simply explore is the draw.
The add-ons push in wildly different directions: a Cold War combat simulation in Operation Anchorage, a swampy backwoods mystery in Point Lookout, an alien abduction aboard Mothership Zeta, and an extended ending in Broken Steel. The throughline is exploration in a ruined America: retro-futuristic atomic-age aesthetics, dark humor, and a world built to reward curiosity. A games-only set.
The Fallout 3 franchise spans 6 games in the CrossBinge catalog.
Part of Fallout.