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.
Action RPGFirst-Person ShooterHorrorMMORPGOpen WorldRole-PlayingSurvival
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- Released
- 2018
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Platforms
- 6 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- playable
- Download
- 96 GB
What is 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 as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 14 November 2018 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Bethesda Game Studios |
| Publisher | Bethesda Softworks |
| Platforms | PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck |
| Genres | Action RPG, First-Person Shooter, Horror, MMORPG, Open World, Role-Playing, Survival |
| Languages | 13 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q54497595, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Fallout 76 received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
- Stereo Sound
- Surround Sound
Input
- Partial Controller Support
- Playable without Timed Input
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | partial support |
| Cloud saves | No |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Yes |
| In-game purchases | Yes |
| Steam Deck | playable |
| Download size | 96 GB |
| Add-on content | 3 DLC listed |
| Age gate | 17+ |
Content descriptors
- Frequent violence or gore
- General mature content
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Fallout 76 worth it?
72% of 140,429 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Mostly Positive. It costs $39.99 on Steam.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Fallout 76? How long to beat it
Total play time for Fallout 76 is about 317.9 hours to do everything, and around 36.2 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 36.2h | 57 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 119.1h | 105 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 317.9h | 54 |
At its current price of $39.99, beating the main story works out to about $1.10 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Fallout 76 system requirements
The minimum requirements from Fallout 76's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 8 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core i5-6600k 3.5 GHz /AMD Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5 GHz |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB /AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB · runs on a low-end GPU |
| Storage | 96 GB (more games this size) |
| System | 64-bit OS required |
Can your PC run it? Check Fallout 76 against your exact GPU, CPU and RAM.
Where Fallout 76 sits on the grid
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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.
- Multi-platform
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- 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.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Estimated sales for Fallout 76
These are estimates, not reported figures. Bethesda Game Studios has not published unit sales for Fallout 76, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 140,429 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $39.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Bethesda Game Studios publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Fallout 76 price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $39.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
Latest Fallout 76 updates & patch notes
Pulled from Fallout 76's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
- "You can’t just throw new people at that problem": Bethesda devs doubt future Elder Scrolls and Fallout games will have the same "quality level", after losing seasoned staff to Xbo
- Pint-Sized Terror Stalks Appalachia in The Slasher Update
- Fallout 76's new Slasher update is "a first of its kind"
- “The Slasher” Cuts In on September 15
- Infestations Balance Adjustment - July 31, 2026
- Fallout 76 Update Notes - July 21, 2026
What readers say about Fallout 76
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Fallout 76 on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Monetisation inside the game22 of 300 (7%)
Well, Microsoft just laid off 22 employees at Bethesda including Fallout 76's Quest Design Lead, Quest Designer, QA Tester and the monetization team who boosted prices and reduced content in the game's microtransaction center, the Atom Shop.
Steam review, 9 July 2026 · 923 hours played · 145 readers marked it helpfulWith the almost requirement for fallout 1st plus the recurring money from the battle pass you would really think this game would have a lot less bugs, but no.
Steam review, 4 August 2026 · 254 hours played · 63 readers marked it helpful - Crashes and freezes21 of 300 (7%)
Players on console editions often find themselves unable to play the game due to crashing at launch, or visiting the "wrong" parts of the map, or trying to load their new C.A.M.P.
Steam review, 9 July 2026 · 923 hours played · 145 readers marked it helpfulIn the middle of this raid, the server crashes, when i log back on everything is gone :D Another big point that i feel is very much missing.
Steam review, 5 July 2026 · 83 hours played · 7 readers marked it helpful - Performance and stutter15 of 300 (5%)
PC players can fiddle around with .ini files to improve the game's horrible hardware optimization, but that requires some technical knowhow and modding confidence that not everyone has.
Steam review, 9 July 2026 · 923 hours played · 145 readers marked it helpful> Brutal Performance on Modern Hardware: Even with high-end, performant modern PC hardware, the game remains a struggle to run smoothly—frequently choking during crowded events due to engine caps, CPU bottlenecks, and outdated optimization.
Steam review, 27 August 2026 · 105 hours played · 3 readers marked it helpful
A further 16 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Games like Fallout 76
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Part of the Fallout series
Fallout 76 is one of 6 Fallout games we track. See the whole series ranked by the GamingPickz Score, plotted on the grid, and listed in release order:
Fallout 76 head to head
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Common questions about Fallout 76
What platforms is Fallout 76 on?
Fallout 76 is available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck. It first released in 2018.
How much does Fallout 76 cost?
$39.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Fallout 76?
72% of 140,429 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Mostly Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
Does Fallout 76 work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Fallout 76 as playable on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.
How big is the Fallout 76 download?
96 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made Fallout 76?
Fallout 76 was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
Is Fallout 76 worth it in 2026?
72% of 140,429 Steam reviews are positive (Mostly Positive), and it is $39.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Fallout 76 on sale?
Not at the moment. Fallout 76 is at its $39.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.
What are the system requirements for Fallout 76?
At minimum, Fallout 76 needs 8 GB RAM, a Intel Core i5-6600k 3.5 GHz /AMD Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5 GHz, a NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB /AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB, 96 GB of storage, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.
How long does it take to beat Fallout 76?
about 36.2 hours for the main story, 119.1 hours with the main extras, 317.9 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.