Wasteland 2: Director's Cut similar games & best alternatives

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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2014

Should you play it?

From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.

What works

  • Deep character customization
  • Engaging tactical combat
  • Meaningful story choices
  • Large explorable world
  • High replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and performance issues
  • Dated graphics
  • Steep learning curve
  • Clunky camera and ui
  • Limited social interaction

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition

  • Every Day We Fight

  • Miasma Chronicles

  • Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition

  • Blightstone

  • Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

More relaxing

Games that feels like Wasteland 2: Director's Cut but with a more relaxing feel

  • Tower of Time

  • Battle Chasers: Nightwar

  • Sword of Convallaria

  • Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

  • Beyond the Map

  • Ember

More fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Wasteland 2: Director's Cut but with a stronger sense of community

  • Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

  • Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

  • Wasteland 3

  • Pillars of Eternity

  • Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition

  • Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Wasteland 3

  • The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut

  • The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled

  • Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™

  • Torment: Tides of Numenera

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How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Wasteland 2: Director's Cut: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026