The Epic Games Store will give away three classic Fallout games for free later this year after pulling them from the next week’s offerings.
Speaking to IGN, an Epic Games Store spokesperson confirmed Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel will still be part of the storefront’s free giveaways in 2024, but just won’t arrive next week as originally announced.
Epic advertised the three games as being available to download for free for anyone with an account from February 22 to 29 before quietly pulling the announcement with no explanation, and didn’t offer a reason to IGN when asked either. Super Meat Boy Forever replaced the three Fallout games as next week’s freebie.
The original Fallout, not developed by current franchise owner Bethesda but Interplay Productions, launched in 1997 and laid the groundwork for what would become one of gaming’s most iconic franchises. Players would explore a wasteland littered with wild and wacky characters and engage in turn-based role-playing combat to defeat all manner of mutants.
Fallout 2 is perhaps the most beloved of the pre-Bethesda games, offering a similar game to the original but improving systems across the board. “With its great storyline, huge game world, and well written scripts, Fallout 2 gave [us] many, many hours of totally absorbing gameplay,”
IGN said in our review
Finally, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel takes that beloved world and applies tactical, squad-based combat. “Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel does just about everything right. The only problem is that there’s too much of it,” we said in our review.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.