Fallout Tactics (FreeFT)
Game: Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (Windows, 2001)
FreeFT: an open-source, real-time isometric action game engine strongly inspired by Fallout Tactics, Australian studio Micro Forte’s 2001 game, that runs on its assets: the graphics, sounds, and maps come from your installed copy of the game. It doesn’t reimplement the campaign: what’s there is a real-time action game on the original maps, with movement, shooting and melee combat, an inventory, enemies with simple AI, multiplayer with bots and a lobby server, and a map and entity editor; the project’s own maps are patches on top of the original game’s. The README warns that it’s far from finished and not actively developed, and that it lacks, among other things, lighting, RPG elements, dialogue, and scripting. It started in 2013 and put out several tech demos, and in 2025 its author updated it to their libfwk library, moved it to CMake, and set up automated Windows and Linux builds on GitHub; the only compiled releases it publishes are old Windows tech demos on SourceForge (the latest from February 2015).
You needYour own installed copy of Fallout Tactics (the README mentions GOG, Steam, and Epic). Its convert program asks for the game’s path and converts the resources in a few minutes; on Linux you point it at the Wine install folder. Plus Windows or Linux, building it with CMake.
- How it gets to PC
- Fan reimplementation
- Console
- Microsoft Windows
- Original studio
- Micro Forte
- Year
- 2001
- Author
- Krzysztof Jakubowski
- Stars
- 195
- Last activity
- 2025-11-29 · 11 months ago
- Latest version
- linux-deps-1 · 2025-11-27
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Language
- C++
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