Fallout 4 is a 2015 open-world action role-playing game set in the post-apocalyptic ruins of Boston, Massachusetts, developed by Bethesda Game Studios. Players control the "Sole Survivor," a pre-war parent who emerges from 210 years of cryostasis into the year 2287 to search for their kidnapped son, encountering new factions, technology, and ethical dilemmas in the irradiated wasteland. The game features intense, first or third-person combat with a unique slow-motion targeting system, a deep crafting system for weapons and settlements, and a character system based on the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes.