Fallout 76 Took Me Home – Escapist Magazine

There’s a quiet authenticity to Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic Appalachia, and it comes from an overwhelming sense of loneliness. Both in Fallout and the real world, it’s the kind of place where people go to be left alone, and where you rarely escape under your own terms.

If Fallout 76 has done anything, it has given me the chance to know what it feels like to walk through a digital representation of the place that shaped me, and the land I now feel like a stranger in, even as errant gunshots echo through the woods of my home and remind me of the silence that was growing up in the middle of nowhere.