Fallout 2
2 ports
Fallout 2 (Fallout 2 CE)
alexbatalov/fallout2-ce
Fallout 2 Community Edition: a fully working reimplementation of Fallout 2 for current systems, with the original gameplay, engine bug fixes, and some quality-of-life improvements. It’s based on Fallout 2 Reference Edition, by the same author: the game’s source code reconstructed by reverse engineering the original executable, missing only a few functions the game doesn’t use. On Windows it’s a drop-in replacement for fallout2.exe in the game folder. It keeps bringing in features and fixes from sfall, the community’s engine extension, such as its critical hits, books, elevators, burst fire, and explosions, the wide interface bar, and the side panels, and it adds mouse wheel scrolling and visible loot weight. Window size and fullscreen are set in f2_res.ini. The total conversions Nevada and Sonora, in their original versions, likely work; Restoration Project, Fallout Et Tu, and Olympus 2207 don’t yet. There are builds for Windows and Linux (32- and 64-bit) and for macOS 10.11 or later (Intel and Apple silicon), plus Android and iOS. The latest is 1.3.0 (April 21, 2024), and the last commit is from February 16, 2025.
You needThe files from your own copy of Fallout 2 (master.dat, critter.dat, patch000.dat, and the data folder), for example from GOG, Steam, or the Epic Games Store; on Linux and macOS they can be extracted from the GOG installer with innoextract, and on a Mac the Macplay release works too. Plus Windows, Linux with SDL2, or macOS 10.11 or later.
Fallout 2 (Falltergeist)
falltergeist/falltergeist
Falltergeist: a new open-source engine for Fallout 2, written in C++ with SDL2 and OpenGL, for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It doesn’t start from the game’s code: it reimplements the engine from scratch and reads the original .dat files, the way OpenXcom or OpenTTD do with their games. By 0.4.0 it could load maps, travel between locations on the world map, use skills on objects, open doors and containers, take ladders, stairs, and elevators, and barter in a basic way, and it had an inventory and a character screen; according to its roadmap, NPCs, combat AI, and full script support were still missing before the game would be playable. That 0.4.0, from May 20, 2022, is its last release, with no published executables, and the last commit is from July 2022. In 2024 one of its main developers wrote that they no longer have time for the project and don’t think it will ever be finished or even playable.
You needThe master.dat and critter.dat files from your own copy of Fallout 2, or the game’s CD mounted. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS, and building it yourself with SDL2, SDL2_mixer, SDL2_image, GLEW, GLM, and zlib.
Questions
What projects are there for Fallout 2?
The catalog has 2 ports for Fallout 2, all on this page with their status.
What do I need to play it?
Your own copy of Fallout 2 (Windows). Recompendium only links projects that don’t distribute the game, and each entry says which version or region you need.
Which one is the most popular?
Fallout 2 (Fallout 2 CE), with 2,489 stars on GitHub.