10 More Great Open-World Games You Didn’t Play

Wasteland

While succeeded by more accessible and popular titles, including its more contemporary sequels, it’s important to recognize the first Wasteland. Released in 1988, it’s set in a post-apocalyptic America ravaged by nuclear fallout. As part of the Desert Rangers, you keep the peace and embark on a mission to investigate strange occurrences, eventually fighting against extinction-level threats.

Its setting served as the inspiration for Interplay’s Fallout series and despite the limits of technology at the time, any changes to the world were persistent throughout a playthrough. The challenge will undoubtedly turn people off but if you want to experience a piece of open-world history, it’s well worth checking out (though you may want to go for the original instead of the remaster).