Fallout 4
RPGOpen WorldPost-apocalypticSingleplayerExplorationAdventure

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 73% of 1,187
All time 😄 Very Positive 81% of 429,184
“Fallout 4 is a great game at its core”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.84
Freedom +3.29
“freedom to play as post-apocalyptic Minecraft with building focus” (34)

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Story & World
+0.97
Story -0.45
“dialogue reduced to four yes options, lacks depth and meaningful consequences” (31)
Bethesda, eu realmente espero que você vá à falência. Não havia necessidade dessa atualização, ninguém pediu por ela. Nós, fãs dessa franquia que vem sendo massacrada nas suas mãos, não queremos sua re-re-venda de um jogo que nunca foi consertado. A única coisa que queríamos era um jogo novo, polido, com um "Role-Playing-Game" de verdade e não essa piada em que você tem quatro opções de dizer sim. Queríamos diálogos profundos e que importem, que tenham consequências reais e plausíveis na Wasteland. Queremos Fallout 5 – A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game. Por mais que, como fã, me doa dizer isso,

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Content Volume
+2.17
Volume +3.86
“200 hours of engaging exploration and building” (10)

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Visuals & Sound
+0.57
Visuals +1.44

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Multiplayer
+0.38

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

Community -0.40

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Fairness
-3.11
Monetization -3.48
“Anniversary upgrade for 53,49$ is unbelievable, reason videogames are expensive” (22)

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Tech & Ops
-3.68
Developer support -4.13
“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
10%30%50%70%90%
Nov 2015Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,160 reviews, peak 67/day
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Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 325 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English43%
  • Chinese10%
  • Russian9%
  • Japanese8%
  • Spanish8%
  • Portuguese7%
  • Other14%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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