Wasteland 2 cover
SeriesWasteland

Wasteland 2

Critic score10 critics
First release
Sep 19, 2014
Engine
Unity
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Indie, Adventure, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Action, Science fiction, Survival, Stealth

Wasteland 2 is a post-apocalyptic role-playing video game developed by inXile Entertainment and published by Deep Silver. It is the sequel to 1988's Wasteland, and was successfully crowdfunded through Kickstarter.

Also known as WL2.exe

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Storyline, release dates, time to beat, age ratings, modes, links, keywords

Storyline
The game is set in an alternate history timeline, in which a nuclear holocaust took place in 1998 in relation to an impact event involving a cluster of meteors that sparked a global nuclear war. On the day of the cataclysm, a company of U.S. Army Engineers were in the desolate southwestern desert constructing bridges in an area with a number of small survivalist communities and a newly constructed federal death row prison with light industrial facilities. The soldiers sought shelter in the prison, expelled the inmates and invited nearby survivalists to join them shortly thereafter. Years later, together they formed "the Desert Rangers, in the great tradition of the Texas and Arizona Rangers", to help other survivors in the desert and beyond it.Read more

The game is set in an alternate history timeline, in which a nuclear holocaust took place in 1998 in relation to an impact event involving a cluster of meteors that sparked a global nuclear war. On the day of the cataclysm, a company of U.S. Army Engineers were in the desolate southwestern desert constructing bridges in an area with a number of small survivalist communities and a newly constructed federal death row prison with light industrial facilities. The soldiers sought shelter in the prison, expelled the inmates and invited nearby survivalists to join them shortly thereafter. Years later, together they formed "the Desert Rangers, in the great tradition of the Texas and Arizona Rangers", to help other survivors in the desert and beyond it.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sep 19, 2014
Mac
Sep 19, 2014
Linux
Sep 19, 2014
All 5 release dates
PlayStation 4
Oct 13, 2015
Xbox One
Oct 13, 2015
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main + Extras
43h
Age ratings
PEGI 18ESRB M
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Where to buy
Keywords
post-apocalyptic, turn-based, squad based, crafting, multiple protagonists
… All 39, multiple endings, apocalypse, hacking, dialogue trees, sequel, crowdfunding - kickstarter, crowdfunding, explosion, single-player only, tactical turn-based combat, attributes, pre-release public testing, customizable characters, leveling up, voice acting, loot gathering, party system, ea app, non-player character, profanity, character creation, pick your gender, recruitable characters, using dialogue to avoid combat, crowd funded, vision obstruction, gamescom 2013, cover system, cannibalism, lock picking, anarchism, nuclear holocaust, negotiation, lgbtq+

At a Glance

Critic Score
78
Main + Extras (IGDB)
43h

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Steam users rate this Very Positive, 4,665 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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