Fallout 76
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 36.3h
- Value
- $1.10/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB /AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB or equivalent, 96 GB of storage. Windows only.
Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 44 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tom Clancy’s The Division™ ($2.99, scores 30) beats it on value, while it beats Fallen Earth Classic (free, scores 7).
6 of the 599 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 27 percent of the 4,872 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
36.3 hours to finish it, 308 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 8.5 times the campaign.
6 years after release it still had 8.8K people in it at once.
The drop-off
87% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
8,796 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game has improved greatly compared to when it launched, and is very fun with friends.
I have a lot to say about this Fallout game, because it's history has a lot of controversy. I'm honestly surprised it lasted all these years (i'm happy it did) Let's start with the begining. When the game first launched, We can all agree that this game was probably the most broken game ever created or at least one of them. yes, i'm talking about crashing, balance issues, bugs, save loses, game-breaking bugs, lack of...
game is ok its just the greed of these company's is sickening i paid full price when the game dropped and yet i get limited on the things i can unlock because everything is stuck behind a pay wall legit everything you do requires fallout first or atomic points why buy a game and then haft to pay almost $20 a month to enjoy the game like fallout 4 was there is a reason Bethesda got kicked off the fallout projects and...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Fallout 76 scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1151340/fallout-76The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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