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Fallout 4 (2015)

Bethesda Game Studios

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5 · Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S

3.62 from 5938 ratings

14133 members have it in their collection · 1048 playing now · 3639 backlogged · 1426 wish listed

How long? Main story 62h · with extras 133h · 100% 275h (from 111 logged playthroughs)

Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to the world of Fallout 4, their most ambitious game ever, and the next generation of open-world gaming. As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home.

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Developers
Bethesda Game Studios
Publishers
Bethesda Softworks
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Shooter
Themes
Action, Open world, Sandbox, Science fiction, Stealth, Survival
Franchises
Fallout
Series
Fallout
Events
Xbox E3 2018 Briefing, The Game Awards 2016, Xbox E3 2015 Media Briefing, Bethesda's E3 2015 Showcase
Steam
View on Steam

Release dates

  • Nov 09, 2015 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Nov 10, 2015 (Worldwide) PlayStation 4, Xbox One
  • Apr 25, 2024 (Worldwide) PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

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Featured in lists

Gamestar Magazine's 300 best PC games of all time by Human_Traffic · 300 games · 5
Game of the Year: 1985-2025 by anarchistica · 40 games · 3
The Chronolog: From History To Sci-fi by Jevnation · 360 games · 2
Games me played by SirPyschoJeff · 113 games · 0
GOTY 2015 by LarsFrukt · 15 games · 0
Game Passed by Shot9292 · 162 games · 0

Rating distribution

5 stars
1228
4 stars
2155
3 stars
1772
2 stars
633
1 star
150

Community All Reviews Statuses

Vakil

Status Vakil Apr 19, 2026

I started a Fallout 4 play through in May 2023. Three years later, I’ve amassed 50 hours of playing time and pretty much universally treat each session with a “Well I guess I have nothing else to do” attitude. I enjoyed FO3 and NV but this just falls flat for me. In the same way that Skyrim felt like a …

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I started a Fallout 4 play through in May 2023. Three years later, I’ve amassed 50 hours of playing time and pretty much universally treat each session with a “Well I guess I have nothing else to do” attitude. I enjoyed FO3 and NV but this just falls flat for me. In the same way that Skyrim felt like a simplified, almost corporatized into palatability Morrowind, this just feels kind of soulless. I couldn’t get into the story and didn’t care much for the uncanny valley characters. Combine with long loading times and quest breaking bugs and I decided to backlog this. I suppose my save is in the cloud.

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Atag

Status Atag Jan 24, 2026

Really loving the latest season. The way it digs in to the corporate psyche and shows the dizzying spell capitalism can have on the population and our morals is so beautifully done. Whether people watching will make the connections to our own past and present is another story.

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Atag

Status Atag Nov 12, 2025

Reading some of the reception to the fallout 4 Anniversary Edition release, it's so sad to see Bethesda treat their die hard fan base with such low regard. The release breaks (yet again) the very mods that keeps a large portion of their fan base coming back.

On top of this all the anniversary edition does is bundles together a …

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Reading some of the reception to the fallout 4 Anniversary Edition release, it's so sad to see Bethesda treat their die hard fan base with such low regard. The release breaks (yet again) the very mods that keeps a large portion of their fan base coming back.

On top of this all the anniversary edition does is bundles together a bunch of mods from the Bethesda creation catalogue and then charges people £50+ for it. Did they learn nothing from Skyrim? I hate to complain like this, Fallout is one of my favourite gaming franchises, but it reeks of corporate greed for such a low effort anniversary release.

I guess the silver lining is that the creators who made these mods do get paid by Bethesda. Probably the only positive out of all this...

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Atag

Status Atag Nov 10, 2025

Happy 10 year anniversary for Fallout 4!

This was my debut PS4 game back in 2015, in fact I purchased the console with some savings just to experience the new Fallout! Fresh faced, only two months into university, and away from home for the first time - this little treat brought me great comfort at a pretty scary time in …

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Happy 10 year anniversary for Fallout 4!

This was my debut PS4 game back in 2015, in fact I purchased the console with some savings just to experience the new Fallout! Fresh faced, only two months into university, and away from home for the first time - this little treat brought me great comfort at a pretty scary time in my life.

The new friend I'd made in class also pre-ordered the game with me and we both collected it from the campus delivery depot before reluctantly attending our lectures. In an unfamiliar environment it was so nice to bond with someone else over a franchise I adored. I stayed up until 4am waiting for the day one patches to download and then played until the early hours. The next day we talked about our experiences playing the game all night! Such special memories, the cinematic intro, and the PS4 idle background music, forever etched into a core memory. Happy times:)

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Vakil

Status Vakil Jun 28, 2025

The loading times are nuts even with a good PC.

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RileyMan03

Status RileyMan03 Feb 18, 2025

Finally making a little bit of headway on the main quest. Not too much tho. The part where you’re going through Kellog’s memories is just straight up awesome

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RileyMan03

Status RileyMan03 Jan 30, 2025

Almost 30 hours in at this point. Taking back The Castle with the Minutemen. Pretty dope. Haven’t done anymore Brotherhood related things but I have joined the Railroad even though I could care less about synth lives.

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RileyMan03

Status RileyMan03 Jan 29, 2025

Played about 20 hours so far and haven’t progressed the main story line too much. I have rescued Valentine and that’s about it. Most of my time has been dedicated to the clunky settlement building. It’s great!

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Malus

Status Malus Oct 6, 2024

Been playing this the last few days for fun and for trophies. I completed a crap ton of side quests and maxed out a relationship with a companion (Cait). I legitimately can't think of anything else to do in this game so I am stopping now because of that, but I really don't want to stop playing... T_T

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Malus

Status Malus Oct 4, 2024

So I competed the quest “The Nuclear Option.” Did I beat the game? I didn’t see any credits roll but the fallout Wiki seems to say this is the end of the main quest line….

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WildScallion

Status WildScallion Oct 2, 2024

Got the itch to play a Bethesda game and bought Fallout 4 on sale. I'm...not sure whether I like it or not?

The environmental story telling is super fun and so far I think the crafting does seem to add a lot to the game, but it's more "survival" than I'm used to and I've found the beginning a bit …

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Got the itch to play a Bethesda game and bought Fallout 4 on sale. I'm...not sure whether I like it or not?

The environmental story telling is super fun and so far I think the crafting does seem to add a lot to the game, but it's more "survival" than I'm used to and I've found the beginning a bit unforgiving.

Walking from Sanctuary to my first minuteman mission, I ran into a Yao Guai and got absolutely wrecked. It seems like running away is my best defense against a lot of things which isn't my favorite way to play and I am a bit peeved to be constantly running out of ammo. I figure this is a me problem and I need to adapt my play to be a bit more circumspect and cautious.

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x_dee_01

Status x_dee_01 Aug 31, 2024

Fallout 4 part 5 Sanctuary love this game 🎮💜

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x_dee_01

Status x_dee_01 Aug 31, 2024

My fallout 4 gameplay a good friend of mine introduced this game to me and I’m grateful for his suggestion I love it 🎮💜

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Bliceheart

Status Bliceheart Aug 7, 2024

I finally finished the sims settlement 2 modpack in fallout 4. It is honestly one If the most impressive mod packs I have ever seen. I prefer it to the plot of the original game.

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