Fantasy Flight Games will release a new licensed board game based on Bethesda Softwork’s smash hit video game series Fallout.  Release is planned for late this year.

Inspired by the video games Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, the Fallout board game is a narrative-style adventure game that puts players in the shoes of survivors wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland.  Starting from a few known landmarks, players explore a map formed from geomorphic tiles.  As they explore, they can advance the storyline by completing faction quests or strike out on their own with side quests.

To win, players must not only advance their character and collect Influence cards, they must also balance the growth of the factions that are competing for control of the wasteland.  Each quest can advance or thwart a faction’s efforts, and if a faction becomes too powerful it can end the game prematurely, with no winner.

Fallout: The Board Game was created by Andrew Fischer (Runewars Miniatures Game) and Nathan Hajek (numerous Descent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition expansions).  The game is intended for 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, and takes 2 to 3 hours to play.  MSRP is $59.99.

See the gallery below for close up images of some of the game components.

Fantasy Flight Games is not the only company preparing a licensed Fallout game.  Modiphius announced plans for a miniatures wargame called Fallout: Wasteland Warfare earlier this year (see "Miniatures Game Based on 'Fallout' Video Game Series Announced").  Modiphius confirmed to ICv2 that the two licensed tabletop products are distinctly different.