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Fallout 76 is an open-world, multiplayer RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. Released in 2020 by Bethesda Softworks, it has garnered 76,967 Steam reviews with a 72% positive rating. The game features dark comedy elements within its RPG framework.
Overview
Fallout 76 is a 2020 RPG game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. On Steam it has gathered 77,087 player reviews, 72% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the RPG category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $40. 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 4.2 million to 9.7 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 76 can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
77,087
Positive
72%
Steam appid
1151340
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.04.2M to 9.7M
units (median: 6.9M)
≈ $95.1M to $221.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_72% | 0 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 76 at roughly 4.2 million to 9.7 million copies, with a median around 6.9 million, derived from its 77,087 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $158.5M 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 $25.87Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $25.87 to $39.99, averaging $38.24 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $25.87 on 2026-03-29.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$39.99 Buy
- Humble Store$39.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$41.65 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Open WorldMultiplayerPost-apocalypticDark ComedyRPGCapitalismSurvivalBase-BuildingCo-opShooterHorrorMMORPGExplorationFPSSingleplayerGoreViolentAtmosphericGreat SoundtrackEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Fallout 76 sold?
- indielist estimates Fallout 76 has sold between 4,162,698 and 9,712,962 units (median 6,937,830), derived from its 77,087 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Fallout 76?
- Fallout 76 was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
- When was Fallout 76 released?
- Fallout 76 was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Fallout 76 have on Steam?
- Fallout 76 has 77,087 Steam reviews, of which 72% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Fallout 76 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 76 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 76 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.