10 Surprising Video Games You Can Beat Without Killing Anyone

3. Fallout: New Vegas

The Fallout series has an excellent reputation for ensuring players have as much agency and choice as possible in their post-apocalyptic playgrounds.

The game is replete with roleplaying pathways so you can be precisely the hero you want to be, and that extends to how you engage in the games’ combat. There is perhaps no better entry in the series in terms of player choice, including being a pacifist, than Fallout: New Vegas. The game’s project director himself said that ensuring a viable pacifist route was one of their initial design tenets. He explained, “There are ways to win the main plot by killing no one and by killing everyone. You will find it difficult to get by as a pacifist, and you will miss a great deal of content by killing everyone you meet, but it can be done.”

So if you want to be a friendly postie-type courier instead of the scourge of the wasteland, that’s absolutely something you can do.

Given the world is riddled with violence and complex interconnected quests, factions, and roleplaying systems it may come as a surprise that this one lets you get from beginning to end without spilling a drop of blood but there you go.