Fallout 3
Fair · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 22,229
- Critics
- 91 players 10 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 22% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 22.2h
- To 100%
- 114.1h 5.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 85 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 July 2013
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 16 now
- Recent reviews
- 81% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 58% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 85 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. 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 55).
More about Fallout 3
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 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 281 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
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 !
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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?
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Fallout 3 scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22300/fallout-3Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.