Fallout is definitely a maze of hidden Easter eggs. Throughout the years, fans have been able to stumble upon their fair share of secrets. From pop culture references to blue-collar humor, Fallout never fails to deliver where other games fall flat. So many games later🅰, and we're still fighting off ghouls and super mutants, while enduring a marathon of smart-mouthed dialogue that keeps us entertained from mission to mission. Looking at the games, it's very obvious that the developers know their audience really well and feed into our desire for sarcastic and abrasive humor.

If the humor is the dessert, then the gameplay has to be the main🐈 course. It's all well and good acting recklessly if you have a storyline that connects. Without the storytelling chops that we've come to know, we'd all just be running around aimlessly like a bad tour of TV's last 40 years. When the chips are down, you're still in a nuclear wasteland learning about the wild culture that lives there, no matter how quick the wit may be.

The Fallout series really shines when it's combining these two elements. The only times the references are obvious is when they're meant to be. Let's be honest; we all know a💧 few games﷽ that jump the gun, making the Easter eggs feel a little forced. Luckily, the team down at Bethesda seem to knock it out the park. Happy hunting, vault dwellers!

21 💦 It's Beginnin🔯g To Look A Lot Like Christmas

What with all the nuclear devas🎶tation going on around them, you'd have thought people would have stopped celebrating like they used to, or at all, really. Yet, when the in-game calendar marks October, you start to see what looks like Halloween decorations go up.

But hey, Halloween's probably pretty great...right?

The same goes for Christmas,꧋ and while it's usually quite comforting to see the Christmas trees, despite all the carnage, it does conjure up a rather sad image of some poor kid getting radiation sickness meds in his stocking and making snow angels out of nuclear fallout that's built up in his backyard.

20 🅷 The Blade Runner Easter Egg ൩

Blade Runner has inspired many pieces of great art over the years. It's no surprise that the team down at Bethesda gives it a shoutout. Throughout your game, you'll find small nods t🦂o the classic movie. They even give you a recreation of the ending scene!

Let's be honest, what don't they shout out at this point?

Character names, tableaus, and even some of the ideas all seem to be influenced by Blade Runner. While robots disguised as humans isn't🥃 tꦺhe most novel idea in the world, combining that with everything else makes it pretty obvious. There are clearly some Ridley Scott fans among the ranks.

19 Starship Nostromo 💎

We're all for obscure references around here, but this pushes the bar. It's lucky they're giving it up to one of the greats in sci-fi, or we might have not caught it. As you're strolling through the commonwealth, if you look hard enough, there'll be a hut. Inside this hut, you'll find a flux sensor, useless to you except for trade. The throwback is the real payoff, as you look closer at the device y🦩ou'll see both the Nostromo spacecraft's model and registration number on the back. Whoever originally found it, I take my hat off. Now all of us can look like the smuggest nerds.

18 🦋 Snow White, Where Are You?

Ah, Disney... you always manage to wiggle your way in somewhere. The last place you would have thought to look is the radiated aftermath of Fallout. If you make it to thꦚe Old World Blues DLC, t🥃hen you'll be forced to look around a construction site.

Somewhere in the rubble of this site are some red crystals.

If you look a little closer, you will see se😼ven tiny dwarfs, complete with their mining pickaxes. This is a sly detail, but for all of us Disney lovers, it'll be a welcome change from the weird wasteland surprises you usually get.

17 The Future Private Ryan ⭕ 🌠

Saving Private Ryan has become known as one of the best war movies ever. It's left its mark on cinema for a decade to come, so it's no surprise it pops up in Fallout. They put the sniper Jackson directly into the game! Except heꦦre, he's replaced his 40s army♛ gear for a mech suit. It's probably better at stopping bullets, if we're being honest.

The Brothe🦋rhood of Steel's Captain Dusk even repeats word for word the characters' lines in the film. But a few༺ changes obviously had to be made to make it a little more, well, Fallout. We couldn't have him talking about radicals deep into the 2200s, now could we?

16 ๊ Cyborg Dogs Need A Break Too 💎

Those dogs playing poker paintings have popped up just about everywhere. From TV series to Hollywood blockbusters, this simple image of man's best friend has become firmly lodged in our psyche. This holds true for Fallout too. When you enter a back𒐪 room in the X-8 research ceܫnter, you'll find 5 cyber dogs sitting around a table strewn with cards and other things.

They are cyber dogs, so I wouldn't interrupt; the upgrades on the dogs can range from super intelligence to having .44 magnum attachments. Nobody likes being interrupted d🌜uring a game of poker, especially when they're packing.

15 🧸 They Don't Need A Bigger Boat

To mix up the monotony of a barren land, Fallout's developers threw in their fair share of pop culture references. Roaming around Oberland Station, you'll catch a glimpse of a fishing boat. On board, the scene isn't so boring! You'll find the ♔skeleton of a man laid out with aꦿ machete by his side. A big sea monster lays beside him.

Any fans of Spielberg's work (or anyone who was alive in the '70s) will recognize it from Jaws. Ap🐽parently, this time the boat wasn't the problem, but the weapon! A machete isn't the best weapon when taking❀ on a monster triple your size.

14 Zombie's Dreamland 🙈

While this game isn't the most cheerful game you can play, the secrets hidden in the houses in the town of Andale are su💧re to make your skin crawl. The player wanders into this h𝓀omely looking town, probably in relief after wandering the wastelands. At first, all seems well, as the player walks up and talks to a few locals.

But don't nose around in the back rooms unless you want to see a grizzly sight. It turns out the town has sur🗹vived by munching on any passers-by that came through the town and the kids have taken on the family tradition. If you have a special perk equipped, you'll be able to skip the whole speech challenge and cut straight to the point. Good luck!

13 One Small ꧂Step For Man

Seasoned Fallout players will eventually stumble across a conspiracy theorist's dream. A UFO appears in the sky around the player, crashing through the atmosphere towards Earth. From there,🐽 the player can continue and inside find... the strange pilot.

While they didn't give us the Ridley Scott experience, you do get to eliminate a small green E.T. Aliens have been littered through the Fallout lore in Easter eggs🍸 and side projects. Now you get to loot his body and steal his Alien Blaster. If there was ever a reason to go into a dark cave, an alien weapon tops the list.

12 ✤ An Unsung Hero

The radio is often the player's only companion in such a desolate wasteland. On this radio, you'll get the occasional story, a nice little tale to get players through tough times. Herbert Dashwood and his manservant Argyle have ♔some pretty crazy adventures, and many assume this is just a fun little add-on they threw in.

Unfortunately, when you reach Tenpenny Tower, the time-worn hero is also there... without his trusty sidekick. He wants you to find out what happened, and upon investigating further, you find the withered guy laid out under a rock. No happy endiꩲng here.