Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Worth it · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 86% over the last 30 days against 94% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: SVGA, 563 MB of storage. Windows only.
Fallout® 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. It's been 80 long years since your ancestors trod across the wastelands.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • 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.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was August 2013. 81 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game ($9.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats ATOM RPG Trudograd ($10.99, scores 65).
86 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Players rate it 94 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 86 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 1,687 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Players
139 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 04:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 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/38410/fallout-2-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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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