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Fallout 76 vs Will To Live Online

Fallout 76 is an action-RPG FPS game from Bethesda Game Studios (2018) while Will To Live Online is an FPS mmorpg game from AlphaSoft LLC (2018).

Fallout 76

2018 · Bethesda Game Studios

6.6GamingPickz Score

$39.99

Steam: Mostly Positive

Will To Live Online

2018 · AlphaSoft LLC

6.2GamingPickz Score

Free

Steam: Mixed

What each one is

Steam files Fallout 76 under Action-RPG and FPS. In contrast, it files Will To Live Online under FPS and Mmorpg.

Fallout 76

Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.

Description from its Steam store page

Will To Live Online

Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.

Description from its Steam store page

At a glance

Fallout 76Will To Live Online
GamingPickz Score6.6/106.2/10
Steam ratingMostly Positive (72%, 140,429)Mixed (69%, 18,389)
Critic aggregateNo aggregateNo aggregate
Price$39.99Free
Install size96 GB45 GB
Steam Deckplayableunsupported
Released20182018
DeveloperBethesda Game StudiosAlphaSoft LLC

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Fallout 76 vs Will To Live Online, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Fallout 76Action-RPG FPS game
    Will To Live OnlineFPS mmorpg game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Fallout 76Open World, Post-apocalyptic, Dark Comedy
    Will To Live OnlineSurvival, Free to Play, Open World

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Fallout 76Score 6.6 · 72% on Steam
    Will To Live OnlineScore 6.2 · 69% on Steam

    The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

  4. Content and scale

    Fallout 76140,429 reviews · 3 add-ons · 96 GB
    Will To Live Online18,389 reviews · 1 add-on · 45 GB

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Fallout 76$39.99
    Will To Live OnlineFree

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

  6. On a Steam Deck

    Fallout 76Playable
    Will To Live OnlineUnsupported

    Valve's own Deck compatibility rating.

Fallout 76 takes 2 of the marked rounds to 1. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.

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01000100PlayersPopularity

Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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How positions are decided

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  • Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
  • No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
  • A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
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Which to pick, by what you want

  • The higher-rated of the two: Fallout 76 (GamingPickz Score 6.6)
  • The cheaper right now: Will To Live Online (Free)
  • Better on a Steam Deck: Fallout 76 (playable)
  • Lighter on storage: Will To Live Online (45 GB)
  • The safer bet by weight of reviews: Fallout 76 (140,429 reviews)

What they have in common

Both are tagged by Steam players with:

Open WorldMultiplayerPost-apocalypticRPGSurvivalShooterMMORPGExploration

Where they differ

Fallout 76 is also

Dark ComedyCapitalismBase-BuildingCo-opHorrorSingleplayer

Will To Live Online is also

Free to PlayOpen World Survival CraftMassively MultiplayerActionFirst-PersonCrafting

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Fallout 76 is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. Will To Live Online is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

System requirements, side by side

Fallout 76Will To Live Online
Minimum GPUNVIDIA GTX 780 3GB /AMD Radeon R9 285 2GBGeForce GTX 1060 6GB/ AMD RX 580
Minimum CPUIntel Core i5-6600k 3.5 GHz /AMD Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5 GHzIntel Core i3 3100 MHz
Minimum RAM8 GB12 GB
Install size96 GB45 GB

Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Fallout 76 · Will To Live Online.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 4 accessibility features for Fallout 76 and 0 for Will To Live Online. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Fallout 76 and Will To Live Online in scope?

Fallout 76 has drawn 140,429 Steam reviews, ships 3 add-ons and installs in 96 GB. Will To Live Online has drawn 18,389 Steam reviews, ships 1 add-on and installs in 45 GB.

Is Fallout 76 or Will To Live Online better?

By the GamingPickz Score, Fallout 76 rates higher (6.6 to 6.2). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.

Which is cheaper, Fallout 76 or Will To Live Online?

Will To Live Online is cheaper right now at Free, against $39.99. Prices move, so this is read live from Steam and can change.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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