Mods give huge replay value
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Tried to start another vanilla playthrough. Ended up with 80 light mods with some fixes. Swore to stop there. A week later and now I have 300+”
Steam review · 655.5 h played ↗
Fallout 4
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 82%Very Positive · 82%Bethesda Game Studios2015Shooter · RPG · Adventure
The verdict
A huge, moddable open-world looter-RPG with great settlement building and exploration, but weak story and dialogue, plus bugs and mod-breaking updates. Skip if you want deep RPG choices or stable vanilla PC play.
Great for
Explorers, settlement builders and modders who enjoy looting and crafting more than story or deep RPG choices
Main risk
Updates break mods, and bugs, crashes and fps-tied physics can make PC play frustrating
What players love
Addictive settlement building
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“The base building is a particular delight to me as you can use creation tools to really beef up your base with some insane set ups.”
Steam review · 47 h played ↗
Huge world with endless things to do
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“A massive post-apocalyptic adventure packed with exploration, memorable locations, and endless freedom.”
Steam review · 179.3 h played ↗
Fun looting, crafting and gunplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“Customizable weapons makes it easy to build weapons that fit your playstyle”
Steam review · 144.2 h played ↗
Memorable companions and characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“Always going to love having Nick Valentine and Hancock.”
Steam review · 678.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
Updates keep breaking mods
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“bethesda for the love of god, stop updating this game. every time it updates it breaks all the mods”
Steam review · 88.2 h played ↗
Bugs and needs fixes to be playable
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“After all these years, the game is still full of bugs.”
Steam review · 3.1 h played ↗
Paid Creation Club and Anniversary upsell
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“$20 for "DLC" that already exists on Nexus Mods for free”
Steam review · 179.1 h played ↗
Crashes, freezes and broken launch
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“the game suddenly crashes within seconds of the engagement”
Steam review · 290.8 h played ↗
Shallow RPG, dialogue and choices
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“The voiced protagonist limited all dialogue choices to be either yes, yes but sarcastic, yes but rude, no.”
Steam review · 61.4 h played ↗
Game speed tied to fps, no limiter
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“i have to play at abysmal 60 fps, or otherwise the game is 2x or 3x speed.”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support30 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent
Storage30 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
ProcessorIntel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent
Storage30 GB available space
OSWindows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent
Storage30 GB available space
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