Excellent writing and memorable characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The writing is absurdly good, and the factions are easily the strongest part of the game.”
Steam review · 114.3 h played ↗
Fallout: New Vegas
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%Obsidian Entertainment2010RPG · Action · Adventure
The verdict
A legendary, deeply written RPG with meaningful choices and factions, but the Steam version crashes constantly on modern PCs and practically needs mods. Skip it if you won't mod or tolerate bugs.
Great for
Story-driven RPG fans who like roleplaying, factions and moral choices, and don't mind installing mods
Main risk
Frequent crashes, infinite loading screens or failure to launch on modern PCs unless you mod it
What players love
Meaningful choices and roleplay freedom
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Your actions in the world have incredibly real consequences.”
Steam review · 832.8 h played ↗
Great DLCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“There's also the 3 DLCs which are a must play.”
Steam review · 183.5 h played ↗
Compelling, nuanced factions
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“New Vegas has multiple factions which you can join, each quest has multiple ways to finish it”
Steam review · 183.5 h played ↗
Huge modding scene and replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“so much fun, and so moddable, which adds tons of replayability”
Steam review · 89.3 h played ↗
Atmospheric world, music and radio
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“The radio is easily the best in the entire series.”
Steam review · 7.3 h played ↗
What players complain about
Constant crashes on modern PCs
Mentioned in ~3 in 5 negative reviews
“Unplayable on modern systems without crashing every 30 minutes.”
Steam review · 2.4 h played ↗
Needs extensive modding to be playable
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Extensive modding required to get game to a playable state.”
Steam review · 101 h played ↗
Won't launch or infinite loading screens
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“On startup there is an infinite load screen. When saving I keep getting an infinite load screen.”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗
Game-breaking bugs and corrupted saves
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Game saves are often corrupted.”
Steam review · 22.4 h played ↗
Dated, clunky gunplay and boring pacing
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“its just a walking simulator with terrible gunplay and awkward dialogue”
Steam review · 15.8 h played ↗
German version locked and no Russian language
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“my copy is locked to German text and audio.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable10 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7/Vista/XP
ProcessorDual Core 2.0GHz
Memory2GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATI 1300XT series
Storage10GB free space
OSWindows 7/Vista/XP
ProcessorDual Core 2.0GHz
Memory2GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATI 1300XT series
Storage10GB free space
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