Fallout 3
Fair · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 22.2h
- Value
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in July 2013. It has been discounted 83 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Fallout: New Vegas ($9.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Fallout 4 ($19.99, scores 54).
Critics scored it 91, but players land 10 points lower at 81 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 28 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 83 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 4,742 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 22.2 hours. Doing everything runs 114, 5.1 times as long.
Players
44 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
one of the most peakest fallout games BUT for all my lovely players that are trying to play fallout 3, u need a specialized patching mod to play this game, js search up "fallout 3 patches" or "fallout 3 anniversary patcher" and it should show up ! hopefully this helps n welcome in the newest vault dwellers !
game runs flawless on proton. am running it at 800x600 with everything low but textures and i have shadows off. get a solid 60 fps. using a Radeon R5 430.
A tech demo for New Vegas. Half the map is impenetrable concrete rubble. What was the rationale behind that?
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Fallout 3 scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22300/fallout-3The 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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