Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Fair · Shooter · 2009
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; 67% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$6.5967% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.76/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 56,452
- Critics
- 91 players 9 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 22% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 26.4h
- To 100%
- 106.3h 4.0x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 July 2013
- Sale every
- 43d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 262 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 59% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 86 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 22 percent. It is pricier than 84 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 55).
More about Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
91 on Metacritic, 82 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 19 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2025 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, 253 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 9,230 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 26.4 hours; clearing it takes 106, which is 4.0 times the campaign.
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 my favorite games of all time. People love to say it's bad but when I was a kid it was neck and neck with New Vegas. I wish it wasn't an actual broken mess on PC (Where are the achievements? Why does it only read the Launcher but not the actual game?) but regardless, it's a blast to play. My favorite game to play on my ROG Ally. Extremely excited for the remastered version.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Not quite on the same level as Fallout: New Vegas, but a much, much better game than the dull, boring Fallout 4. Only finished the main story, but it was a fun and enjoyable experience from start to finish. It did feel a bit too short though-I finished the main story in under 20 hours. There are still plenty of side quests, locations, and DLCs left for me to experience, and I can't wait to return to the Capital...
This review would have been positive until the ending happened and I realized what Fallout 3 actually was, the great game of watching NPC's do cool things. It felt like I was being forced into the back seat of what should have been the player character's story. The entire game is an errands simulator and fetch quest machine. The aesthetics and visual design are great, but the main story is just a slog to get...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.
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: Game of the Year Edition 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/22370/fallout-3-game-of-the-year-editionReviews 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.