

There are two confirmed Mormon characters in the Mojave Desert of Fallout: New Vegas. In this post, I will be looking into the ways that Fallout: New Vegas portrays the Mormons of its world. One of the elements of New Vegas that I thought was done with particular thoughtfulness and detail was its representation of Mormons, adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Its greatest triumph is the believability of its worldbuilding, drawing on literature and history to create a compelling picture of what things might look like two hundred years after the world as we know it was destroyed in nuclear fire. It’s an open-world RPG with a setting best described as post-apocalyptic dystopian Old West. It’s hard to find a game more revered by its fans than Fallout: New Vegas.
