The release of Fallout 5 is still flashing somewhere beyond the event horizon, and Bethesda is in no hurry to please fans with details. While Todd Howard keeps a partisan silence, enthusiasts have taken matters into their own hands — a team of modders is preparing Project Arroyo with might and main. This is a large-scale remake of the legendary Fallout 2, which transfers the isometric classics of 1998 to full-fledged 3D based on the Creation Engine from Fallout 4.
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Why hasn’t Bethesda taken on Fallout 5 yet
The wait for the new numbered installment of the Fallout franchise has stretched on for a decade — and this is clearly not the limit. There is critically little official information on Fallout 5. It is only known that the project will be closely connected with the world of the Prime Video series (yes, that very hit). While the Bethesda core team has thrown all their energy into The Elder Scrolls VI and Fallout 76 content support, fan patience is slowly starting to evaporate. You must admit that the prospect of waiting another five or seven years doesn’t look good.
Is the Fallout series already Fallout 5? What the actor Gulya says
Walton Goggins, the man who carried the Fallout series from Prime Video as a Ghoul for two seasons in a row, hears this question all the time. In a big interview for the oral history of the franchise, published by Game Informer in February 2026, the actor answered directly: “People were asking, is this Fallout 5? But that’s definitely not my area of expertise.” In short, he doesn’t know himself, and he talks about it honestly.
However, Goggins insists that the show does not deliberately copy any of the games in the series. According to him, showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dvor and Graham Wagner, along with Jonathan Nolan, have built an independent plot that lives in the Fallout universe, but does not retell Fallout 1, 2 or 3. The original content inside a familiar world is how he puts it.
Todd Howard himself went further. In December 2025, responding to BBC Newsbeat, the head of Bethesda Game Studios confirmed that Fallout 5 will exist in a world where the events of the series have already happened or are happening right now. Not a hint, but a direct statement. Emil Pagliarulo, the studio’s lead screenwriter, clarified even more harshly: “Everything that happened in the series happened in the games, or will happen.” Virtually every twist of the show— from the destruction of Shadi Sands to the intrigues of Vault-Tec — is now part of a single timeline.
Jonathan Nolan himself, by the way, stated something provocative at SXSW 2024: “Our series relates to games in the same way that games relate to each other. It’s almost like Fallout 5, but it’s not interactive.” The wording is slippery, but revealing. The show has already moved chronologically beyond any of the games — the action takes place 15 years after the events of Fallout: New Vegas. And the third season, which will start filming in mid-2026, will show a completely new location, which has never been in the games.
The combination of TV series and games is not just marketing. The ghoul has already appeared in Fallout 76 as a full—fledged NPC as part of the Burning Springs expansion – Goggins voiced the character specifically for the game. The first real crossover between the show and the games, and not an Easter egg in the corner of the map, but a plot element with its own quests. The boundaries between the on—screen and the Fallout game universe are blurring before our eyes – and Bethesda, apparently, is exactly what it wants.
Project Arroyo: a fan-made remake of Fallout 2 using the Creation Engine
This is where Project Arroyo comes on the scene. The project team, formed back in 2019, has set itself an insane goal: to recreate the world from Black Isle Studios from scratch.
What exactly are the authors doing?:
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Redesign of locations: Instead of flat maps, there is a lively open world of Fallout 4 with vertical gameplay.
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New visual: Iconic locations from the 1998 original are adapted to the Creation Engine, preserving the same oppressive atmosphere.
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Collaborations: The project includes the achievements of other top members of the modding community.
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Feedback: More than 13,000 people have already been following the progress on the official Discord channel – the community’s support is enormous.
Official remake of Fallout 2 from Bethesda: will it be or not
The short answer is unlikely. The original Fallout 2 was created by a completely different studio even before the IP rights were transferred to Bethesda. Todd Howard and the company have too busy a release schedule right now. But a remake of the deuce could be a real gold mine — the game is still called one of the best RPGs in the history of the industry for its non-linearity and variability.
Fortunately, Project Arroyo proves that if the official publisher is slow, the old guard and dedicated players themselves will give the classics a second life. We can only keep an eye on updates and hope that this long-term construction will reach the finish line sooner than Fallout 5.
