Fallout 4

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Franchise: Fallout
Release date: Nov 9, 2015
Store page updated: Aug 13, 2026
Price: $19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

52.7/ 100

Based on 325 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 77% of 1,089

All time 😄 Very Positive 81% of 429,210

“Fallout 4 is a great game at its core”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

+1.61

Freedom +3.29 · Room to explore, build, and play your own way

“freedom to play as post-apocalyptic Minecraft with building focus” (34)

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Story & World

+0.97

World +2.76 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is

“awesome atmosphere, large robust open world with oceans of lore” (26)

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Content Volume

+2.37

Volume +3.86 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price

“200 hours of engaging exploration and building” (10)

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Visuals & Sound

+0.46

Visuals +1.44 · Graphics, art style, and animation

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Multiplayer

-0.04

Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.

Community -0.40 · Who you play with — how many, and how friendly

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Pricing & Fairness

-3.40

Pricing -3.48 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

“Anniversary upgrade for 53,49$ is unbelievable, reason videogames are expensive” (22)

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Tech & Support

-3.75

Developer support -4.13 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players

“update broke F4SE, 99% of mods, introduced performance issues and instability” (69)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time

since launch, by month · major update

Nov 2015Sep 2026

Reviews

per day · 1,081 reviews, peak 67/day

Aug 21Sep 18

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