The Liminality of Fallout

The Liminality of Fallout

Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4 are given the backrooms treatment in this video, focusing on liminal spaces and the unsettling, uncanny locations that sit on the fence between intention and abandonment. This video explores the strange emotional weight of Fallout’s in-between places: empty transit systems, forgotten airfields, sealed-off casinos, unused vault sections, map edges, out-of-bounds zones, and developer test cells never meant to be seen. Drawing on player accounts, cut content, and community discussion, it traces how these spaces evoke unease not through overt horror, but through stillness, absence, and the sense of having crossed a boundary. From the metros of the Capital Wasteland to the silent desert of the Mojave and the frozen infrastructure of the Commonwealth, this is a vibey journey into the quiet, haunting architecture that makes Fallout feel permanently suspended between past and future.

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