My Journey Through Time brought me to Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel released in 2001. After playing Fallout and watching the playthrough of Fallout 2, I have to give this only Acceptable rating, and that's just for the game being set in the same universe, and for actually being playable in 2025. The game is repetitive, buggy and contradicts a lot of lore established in the first two games. I found myself rushing through the game as fast as I could. I read online about the problems related to its development and release, so I kind of understand why the game turned out the way it did. I also saw this game being compared to Jagged Alliance 2, and yeah, I wish Fallout Tactics was either more like Jagged Alliance 2, or more true to Fallout and Fallout 2. Now it's somewhere in between and it doesn't really work.

The story was excellent, as well as the sound, visuals and other creative decisions. I was hoping for more filler cases - every case progresses the main plot, so the game feels too short. Don't get me wrong, it's still well worth its price. There's plenty of room for a sequel, I'd love to see more of the story.

I tried to pick this up in order to reach Fallout Tactics later in the franchise for my A Journey Through Time challenge. However, Fallout 2 doesn’t run on my PC even though I tried all the fixes I could find online. The 4 hours of playtime was just me forgetting to exit the game client as I tried to find the solution. Instead, I watched a whole 40-video-long walkthrough by Oxhorn (which I highly recommend if anyone's interested), and well, I liked the first game's story better, although this one's still great. IMO the story and side content of the first game was just consistently good, while in Fallout 2 it's more of a rollercoaster, possibly due to the game having much more side content which was of varying quality (e.g., I couldn't care less about everything and everyone in New Reno and San Francisco). I'm in love with the game's world and its lore though, and looking forward to playing the rest of the franchise (which hopefully runs without a hitch on my PC going forward).

So I picked this up in order to reach Fallout Tactics later in the franchise for my A Journey Through Time challenge.
What can I say, this game's a classic I've never played before. The lore & the story, as well as the storytelling, are truly remarkable for 1997. I hated absolutely everything about the game mechanics so I followed a step-by-step guide just to get through it. Still a fantastic game for its time.

Finished the story, played some of utopia mode, of course I intend to spend a couple hundred hours more in this game (at least). All of the reviews everywhere emphasize that this is a different game compared to Frostpunk so I'm not going to get into that but I absolutely loved the changes. I know some people hate it because somehow they expected that the sequel will be more-of-the-same-ol'-Frostpunk (HOW? There were beta gameplay videos everywhere…). The way I see it, now I have two excellent games to play, set in the same amazing post-apocalyptic universe. I don't have any actual review of the game. It's beautiful, it's full of nice little details and references, you have to make hard choices, you're constantly so pissed at your population that you can EASILY justify making fascist choices. And then take a step back and realize what you did. The city did not fall. But was it worth it?

Extreme Conditions + True Viking was brutal and I had to restart 10 times at least, but finally made it… Only 3 achievements remain which I'll probably come back to in 2 more years or so.

I finally did it - got all the achievements before Frostpunk 2 is released, and it was one hell of a journey. This game will forever stay in my heart & mind as one of my favorite games and a comforting place to visit when everything else fails to keep my interest (or when it's way too hot or too cold outside). Can't wait for the sequel, I'm sure I'll barely get any sleep that weekend and will scream at my monitor in desperation once again.