Fallout 4
Fair · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 27.8h
- Value
- $0.72/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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
October 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 81 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fallout 3 ($9.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl ($59.99, scores 50).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 8,757 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
27.8 hours to finish it, 160 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.8 times the campaign.
Still 11.2K concurrent players, 11 years in.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
83% 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
11.2K 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
I'd say this game is awesome, but, it has so many problems that it kinda let me down. First of all, this game is held up by duct tape. It crashes and has glitches all over the place. One such glitch prevented me watching the final cutscene, which led me to youtube, cause there's seemingly no way to fix it, despite being reported for over 2 years now and a with big update coming out like 2 weeks ago, it's insane how...
After so many years, and many more hours logged on Xbox that aren't reflected here... I'm still finding new stuff in this game. Everything you could want, from deep story elements, gunplay, and even some cozy game type elements with the settlement building (which can be as big or small of a part of the game as you want it to be). With the depth of the base game, the DLCs, and the modding scene, this has infinite...
why would I not recommend this game to others. Because Bethesda constantly update the game ♥♥♥ up mods and load orders. It would be one thing if they actually desired to put out a quality game, LOL!! No, they do it to milk money from the players!
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 4 scores 54/100 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/377160/fallout-4The 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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