Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas
Game
Game2015
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Developer Interplay Inc.
Fallout (also known as Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game) is a 1997 role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Productions, set in a mid-22nd century post-apocalyptic and retro-futuristic world, decades after a global nuclear war led by the United States and China. Fallout's protagonist, the Vault Dweller, inhabits an underground nuclear shelter. The player must scour the surrounding… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
930 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
92
LovedLoved
283 positive · 25 negative
95% range 88–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 117 | 46 | 366 |
| Steam reviews | 283 | 25 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 11 | 2 | 53 |
| Mastodon * | 5 | 1 | 21 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
15,433 of 16,383 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
92% recommend · 236 yes, 20 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 256 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (23,839 of 25,296 positive).
Players praise the game's atmosphere, writing, and freedom of choice, calling it a masterpiece that aged well. [1][2][3] Many note a steep learning curve and dated UI, but find the game addictive and rewarding once mastered. [4][5][6] Some reviewers report bugs and crashes, especially in late game, that hinder completion. [7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [14]
I bounced off “Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role Playing Game” so quickly that I never thought to write a review years ago. The early hours combine punishing difficulty, opaque systems, and an implied timer that makes the search for the water chip feel very urgent. (3/10) This trial-and-error approach was a hallmark of its era, but for me, it represents a failure of the RPG format. The core appeal of an RPG is the …
- [11]
Its actually disgusting how people brush this game off as too old. Its aged incredibly well for something that came out in 1997 and is a must play if you like the other fallout games. Even if you're not sure you'll enjoy it its always worth a shot since its like ten euro/dollars and you could get it for two during a sale.
- [1]
A masterpiece that aged extremly well. Fallout 1 has a really specific vibe, you really feel that humanity is at brink, that almost nothing is left except desolated deserts and rusty wind (vibe which bethesda has never been able to recreate). The world feels really alive, some people trying to rebuild a sham of civilisation, some fall into violence, decadence and cults, while other try to fanatically save the rest …
- [2]
Wow, what a game. It definitely has some dated elements, but overall its aged quite well. The fact that this game blew my mind 28 years later is just insane to me. The world feels so real and atmospheric, something about older games make them feel more lived in and realistic. I will definitely be replaying this game in the future as there are so many choices and different builds to play with, I haven't even …
- [3]
Fallout remains one of the best RPGs ever made. The post-apocalyptic atmosphere is unique, your choices really do matter, and the world manages to be both dark and humorous at the same time. Even though it is an older game, it’s still well worth playing for its writing and the freedom it offers.
Summarised from 34 of the 366 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
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Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game sits at 92% positive across 308 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Fallout received critical acclaim, with critics considering it one of the best role-playing video games at the time. PC PowerPlay predicted that Fallout would revive the genre and thought that both casual gamers and fans of role-playing games would enjoy the game. GameSpot declared that because of the release of Fallout, gamers would not have to wait for a good role-playing game anymore. The Electric Playground said that they "can't think of another game that comes even close to Fallout's excellent character generation and skill system, great story, and classy delivery." Critics praised the character system. GamePro considered it the best aspect, and Todd Vaughn of PC Gamer found the system…
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Reactions
60 of 930 · most liked firstHello! My name is Josh Sawyer. I’m a video game writer, designer, and director active in the RPG genre. I directed Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2, and Pentiment.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today marks 15 years since the release of Fallout: New Vegas. Since 2010, players have explored the Mojave Wasteland where countless Couriers have walked the same road—each carving their own story. Thank you for keeping the spirit of the game alive all these years. Viva New Vegas. 🎲
neutral · AI labelView post →BREAKING: Obsidian Entertainment is making a big pivot as part of the Xbox restructuring. It has laid off a quarter of its staff, canceled a planned sequel to Avowed, and is now beginning work on a new Fallout game, according to people familiar with the plans www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →I think a lot of people forget that The Elder Scrolls VI was only announced in 2018 (along with Starfield) to soften the blow of Fallout 76 — "Don't worry, even though we're making a multiplayer game we've got single-player stuff coming too!" Sorry to say this game is still more than 2 years away!
neutral · AI labelView post →I know Fallout is historically a FPS series but what do you think about the concept of a turn based Fallout game? One with more emphasis on the RPG mechanics and managing the AP system. Would y'all play something like that?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Fallout show feels like if someone played the Fallout games and then said “let’s make a show based on this.” Which sounds obvious but historically has been rare for video game adaptations.
positive · AI labelView post →NEW: Bethesda has announced a slew of new Fallout games, including Fallout 5 and Fallout 3 + New Vegas remasters. The company also confirmed my scoop last week that it is working with Obsidian on a Fallout game. I spoke to Todd Howard about the roadmap: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →The fact that there hasn’t been a proper Fallout game in 10 years or a proper Elder Scrolls in 14 is kinda ridiculous.
negative · AI labelView post →Balatro: Friends of Jimbo (Pack 4) - Official Reveal Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tUJ... -Bugsnax -Assassin's Creed -Slay the Princess -Fallout & more now on Game Pass
neutral · AI labelView post →The only Big Game I care about is Fallout New Vegas.
positive · AI labelView post →What’s y’all’s comfort game? Whenever I need to just vibe I always boot up Fallout: New Vegas or 4
positive · AI labelView post →It's kinda wild to have lived through the cultural and critical reevaluation of Fallout: New Vegas. I remember that game kinda feeling like an afterthought compared to Fallout 3 being everywhere, and yet now I feel like I never hear people talk about 3. It's either praising New Vegas or hating 4
neutral · AI labelView post →Obsidian is now working on a new 'Fallout' game 🎮 (via Business)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Survivalist from Fallout New Vegas, a game I can’t help but revisit often. Someone should give me an excuse to draw more Fallout stuff
positive · AI labelView post →Manifesting hard I am gonna voice in Elder Scrolls I am gonna voice in a FromSoft game I am gonna be in Deadlock I am gonna be in Fallout I am gonna be in a Silent Hill I'm gonna be in more horror games I'm gonna be in more dinosaur games I'm gonna do it, I WILL do it Nothing will stop me
neutral · AI labelView post →I just want people who aren't terminally online to know that the Fallout community is currently ripping itself apart because the TV show fans are making fun of game fans for 'injecting their OCs into everything.' Every single mainline Fallout game forces you at gunpoint to make an OC.
neutral · AI labelView post →changing my vote to the candidate whose ads play like a joke in a Fallout game
neutral · AI labelView post →Season 2 of Fallout is good I guess, but all the little storylines are structured just like game quests and it’s just making me wish I was playing a new Fallout game instead of watching this show.
negative · AI labelView post →this is like an image from a Fallout game
neutral · AI labelView post →Vault Girl Comic (Inspired by my 50th replay of the game) #fallout #newvegas
positive · AI labelView post →Let's play a beloved game from a series I've never tried... Fallout: New Vegas!! www.youtube.com/live/h7jnN0w...
neutral · AI labelView post →You're getting another Obsidian Fallout game that's going to be even more rushed and crunched while under Microsoft
negative · AI labelView post →We are proud to confirm our partnership with Bethesda to put the original Fallout game on Virtual Boy. We hope you hate playing it as much as we hated making it!
neutral · AI labelView post →For no particular reason I’m kind of regretting never having played a Fallout game today
neutral · AI labelView post →You could never set a Fallout game outside of America. The amount of guns and soda would simply not be believable.
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your ranking of Bethesda Game Studios' games? Here's mine for today; I haven't played Oblivion: 1. Fallout 3 2. Fallout: New Vegas 3. Starfield 4. Morrowind 5. Skyrim 6. Fallout 76 7. Fallout 4
neutral · AI labelView post →Ahem. Anyway. Good morning. I'm going to stream Fallout: New Vegas tonight. I've never played a Fallout game before EVER.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallout New Vegas is $0.99 on Steam buff.ly/VZOTbmK Deck playable also on Game Pass Premium
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally did it. I got every game I’ve shipped as a tattoo. Bloodrayne 2, Aeon Flux, Metroid Prime 3, Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Starfield and The Axis Unseen. 🤘
positive · AI labelView post →Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game (PC / Interplay Productions / 1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →This is like a series of headlines from a failed state in a dystopian video game like Fallout.
neutral · AI labelView post →it's like a journal story you'd find in a Fallout game
neutral · AI labelView post →If the next Fallout game doesn’t have a 100 Men vs 1 Gorilla Vault, I’m gonna riot
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 14th Birthday to Fallout: New Vegas! Best game ever made!
positive · AI labelView post →The game mechanics in the Fallout series are fucking shit and render the games unplayable to me
negative · AI labelView post →Fallout: New Vegas released 16 years ago today! This is STILL the best Fallout game I've ever played. Obsidian just seemed to "get it" and made a Fallout game that had weight to the choices you had to make. Also... it had Red Lucy. 😏 Is New Vegas your favorite Fallout or does another one top it?
positive · AI labelView post →We (alongside @michaelhobbes.bsky.social) have come to a consensus: Fallout: New Vegas is the ultimate woke 2 video game
positive · AI labelView post →The next Fallout Game (whenever that will be) should look to the Dragon Quest Builders series for inspiration.
neutral · AI labelView post →Elder Scrolls 6 is gonna have all the stupid settlement building and radiant quest shit from Fallout 4 and be the size of the actual state of Rhode Island when all they had to do was make a game basically the exact same size as Skyrim but slightly prettier
negative · AI labelView post →Found 8000 caps in a random encounter on the way to Junktown, Went to barter with Killian Darkwater, Tried to help out with assassin, end up missing and shooting a guard standing right next to the assassin in the process aggroing the town on to me, Die, forgot to save Good game 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Forgetting Fallout New Vegas isn't a Bethesda game" is a rake a lot of people unfortunately step on
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallout style Star Trek game set in the first years after The Burn.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thish ish something different. I made up a fake Fallout game and in thish video we pretend-play it, explore the cRPG shyshtems, do the queshts, check out all the endingsh and sho on. Video link: My Dream Fallout Game youtu.be/eJAtGLfCGQI
neutral · AI labelView post →Bethesda just did a bunch of announcements. This includes official announcements for an Obsidian Fallout game, Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, confirmation they will still make Fallout 5, Fallout 76 will receive a Raven Rock expansion, and Starfield will receive a Starborn expansion.
neutral · AI labelView post →Should I finally beat Fallout: New Vegas tonight or do girl horsey go faster game?
neutral · AI labelView post →Purr-ception is his highest S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat. #Fallout #Halloween #PowerArmor #cosplay #cat
neutral · AI labelView post →this Fallout show would make a cool video game
positive · AI labelView post →Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition + Fallout New Vegas Ultimate (Steam) is $6.99 on Fanatical Build your own Special Editions Bundle buff.ly/3YjEaKY #ad add more game packs to save more
neutral · AI labelView post →Synths can’t get pregnant… right? Fallout show is pretty cool, made me wanna draw someone from the game. #pregnant #pregnancy #Fallout
positive · AI labelView post →Strange how the first Fallout game was called Fallout 3
neutral · AI labelView post →My only thought about Cheesecake Factory is that when we went to the one in Union Square in SF, the server greeted us warmly, seated us, and handed us a piece of cardboard so dogeared is appeared to be a piece of environmental storytelling from a Fallout game, informing us of the US rules of tipping
neutral · AI labelView post →Remake of your favorite game <3 #Meowskulls #Fallout #furrycommunity #Fortnite
neutral · AI labelView post →Slightly diminish a game Fallout Used Vegas
neutral · AI labelView post →Go read blogs from Fallout: A Tale of Two Wastelands modders and the trouble they had importing Fallout 3 items into Fallout: New Vegas - games written on the exact same game engine. It was a NIGHTMARE.
neutral · AI labelView post →Its actually disgusting how people brush this game off as too old. Its aged incredibly well for something that came out in 1997 and is a must play if you like the other fallout games. Even if you're not sure you'll enjoy it its always worth a shot since its like ten euro/dollars and you could get it for two during a sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ratthew Perry in his role as 'Benny' in the hit game Fallout: Rat Vegas #rattober #rats
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to my favorite game of all time, Fallout 3. This game is so special to me. I remember renting it for the first time from Hollywood Video back in high school & locking myself in my room for days haha. Now I own a million copies, have a lil Fallout collection, & love it wholeheartedly.
positive · AI labelView post →Painfully confusing and difficult at the beginning, but once you get the hang of it gets fun. Setting and music is great and is worth playing if you like other fallout games. Save game every 5 mins trust.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fallout 3, the most beautiful game ever made
positive · AI labelView post →Diamond City Fallout 4 (November 10, 2015) Bethesda Game Studios
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