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Bethesda Game Studios' 2017 open-world RPG Fallout 4 VR places players in a post-apocalyptic setting. This singleplayer VR experience has garnered 8,700 Steam reviews, with 60% positive feedback. Published by Bethesda Softworks, it offers a familiar RPG framework within a virtual reality environment.
Overview
Fallout 4 VR is a 2017 RPG game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. On Steam it has gathered 8,704 player reviews, 60% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the RPG category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $60. The pairing of developer Bethesda Game Studios with publisher Bethesda Softworks is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how RPG projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 496,000 to 1.2 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Fallout 4 VR can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,704
Positive
60%
Steam appid
611660
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0496K to 1.2M
units (median: 827K)
≈ $17.0M to $39.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$60 | +15 |
| positive_60% | -10 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Fallout 4 VR at roughly 496,000 to 1.2 million copies, with a median around 827,000, derived from its 8,704 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $28.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $37.37Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $37.37 to $59.99, averaging $56.70 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $37.37 on 2026-06-01.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$59.99 Buy
- Humble Store$59.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$62.49 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
VROpen WorldPost-apocalypticRPGSingleplayerShooterSurvivalFPSActionFirst-PersonViolentAdventureAtmosphericBase-BuildingGoreCharacter CustomizationGreat SoundtrackSexual ContentStealthBuilding
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Fallout 4 VR sold?
- indielist estimates Fallout 4 VR has sold between 496,128 and 1,157,632 units (median 826,880), derived from its 8,704 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Fallout 4 VR?
- Fallout 4 VR was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
- When was Fallout 4 VR released?
- Fallout 4 VR was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Fallout 4 VR have on Steam?
- Fallout 4 VR has 8,704 Steam reviews, of which 60% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Fallout 4 VR within the RPG segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Bethesda Game Studios's other releases and Bethesda Softworks's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Fallout 4 VR sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Fallout 4 VR page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next RPG game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.