Fallout: New Vegas
BANGER · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 26.8h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATI 1300XT series, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was March 2026. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 7 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition ($19.99, scores 63) and Fallout 3 ($9.99, scores 63) both come in lower.
84 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer 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, 624 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 6,217 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited, unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 26.8 hours. Doing everything runs 131, 4.9 times as long.
16 years after release it still had 3.9K people in it at once.
The drop-off
92% 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
3,892 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
Bethesda turned Fallout into an action game, and Obsidian did what they could to turn it back into an RPG. Great setting, music and writing.
Amazing and a classic, BUT be weary it has a LOT of bugs so remeber to save frequetly because it crashes easily.
ts so peak while listening to (Don't Fear) the reaper🔥 oh and big Iron... and the dmc5 OST.... actually listening to anything while playing this game is peak... Actually nothing at all at its still peak. Huh...
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: New Vegas scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22380/fallout-new-vegasThe 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 Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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