Experience an Unprecedented Fallout Adventure: A Video Game That Has It All

Game news You've never played a Fallout like this! This video game has everything to please you

With the release of Amazon's Fallout series, more than one player has dived back into Bethesda's famous RPG. Whether it's the single-player episode Fallout 4 or the MMORPG Fallout 76 (both available on PC, PlayStation and Xbox), there are many entry points to this post-apocalyptic universe. Now, a new door has opened to… Excel, Microsoft's famous spreadsheet software! Eh yes, a fan created a Fallout-inspired game on this program. It is available for free download.

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A square Fallout from home

Of course, with this “game engine”, don't expect 3D graphics or a first-person view. The Excel title, created by a certain Pear, offers two major mechanics: exploration with quests to complete (on a map worthy of the Atari 2600) and combat. For the first, you will have to save the world of Mercer by finding the supervisor of Vault 11… You can move your character – a red dot – on four axes, visit makeshift villages and even solve eight quests! Each time you reach one of the points of interest, a pop-up will appear to describe what is happening. You can see what it looks like in this video:

D&D-inspired mechanics

But the most astonishing thing is still being able to fight battles, here in turn-based mode! In addition to a damage and attack range system, Fallout Excel has an initiative mechanic, inspired by Dungeons and Dragons… “The order is defined by a die roll, where the highest result starts first” we can read on the Pear website. “This order is defined from the first round of combat and remains consistent throughout the battle.” Yes, it's surprisingly complete for a project like this. Meet at this address to download it.