Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Worth it · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it 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
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% off
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 25,388
- Critics
- 89 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% RPG
Holding it back: Length unknown, Cost per hour, est. length
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Price and sales
- Sales
- 84 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 August 2013
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 132 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
84 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 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 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, UnderRail ($14.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game ($9.99, scores 70).
More about Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 477 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 1,959 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
You've just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: SVGA, 563 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/38400/fallout-a-post-nuclear-role-playing-gameReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. 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.