Fallout 3 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters.

Fallout 3 is a open world, post-apocalyptic and rpg game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
Released on October 28th 2008 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 20,807 reviews of which 16,858 were positive and 3,949 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.80€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Fallout 3 into these genres:

Open World Post-apocalyptic RPG Singleplayer Exploration First-Person Sci-fi Moddable Adventure Action FPS Atmospheric Shooter Character Customization Third Person Story Rich Sandbox Action RPG Horror Female Protagonist

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Minimum:

Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Memory: 1 GB (XP)/ 2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk space: 7 GB
Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)
Sound: DirectX®: 9.0c
Controller support: Xbox 360 controller
Other Requirements: Online play requires log-in to Games For Windows - Live

Supported Video Card Chipsets:

NVIDIA GeForce 200 series, Geforce 9800 series, Geforce 9600 series, Geforce 8800 series, Geforce 8600 series, Geforce 8500 series, Geforce 8400 series, Geforce 7900 series, Geforce 7800 series, Geforce 7600 series, Geforce 7300 series, GeForce 6800 series
ATI HD 4800 series, HD 4600 series, HD 3800 series, HD 3600 series, HD 3400 series, HD 2900 series, HD 2600 series, HD 2400 series, X1900 series, X1800 series, X1600 series, X1300 series, X850 series

User reviews & Ratings

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

March 2025

This game definitely deserves more attention than it got. It is very underrated for what is essentially just New Vegas if it was made by Bethesda. I could go on why you should buy it, but come on. Steam has a refund policy for a reason. Buy the game, play it for an hour or two, and tell for yourself if it is worth your while.

Feb. 2025

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful (With mods then this one) ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs (This Is Bethesda we are talking about...) ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10

Nov. 2024

I know this is an older game, but...Most of today's games are to hard for a retired person(like me). I'm either not agile enough, or the plot is to complicated. Fallout 3 has a nice balance.

Aug. 2024

This game is very fun! Despite its older graphics, it looks amazing. I don't know how to put this but the story line is made in such a way that it makes your experience all the better. It may glitch at some parts of the game but it's always a minor glitch and not that huge. 10/10 Must try game (This goes with all the fallout franchise, and most of all New Vegas)

April 2024

amazing game that I played back in high school and got rid of before college. Got it again a decade later and have enjoyed exploring the capital wasteland!

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