Happy Fallout Day! With Fallout Season 2 around the corner and its setting confirmed to be New Vegas years after its 2010 debut, there has never been a better time to dive back into this iconic post-apocalyptic RPG video game series. But where to start? And what's going on with the Fallout timeline? We've put together this handy guide to the Fallout games in order — both chronological and release — to help you get your head around the wasteland's complicated history.
While playing through the games in release order is pretty straightforward thanks to the mainline entries just being numbered, there are still some cheeky subtitle entries that could confuse newcomers. Chronological order is where things get more complicated, though, as the various games jump all over the post-apocalyptic timeline.
