Games Like Fallout 4

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Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.9%, Open World 26.5%, RPG 8.4%, Exploration 4.4%, FPS 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the closest Fallout alternative, with a devastated open world, first-person RPG combat, faction choices, companion quests, and far-reaching narrative consequences.

Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.7%, Open World 27.2%, RPG 8.3%, FPS 4.6%, Sci-fi 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Fallout 3 delivers the same Bethesda-style first-person exploration, radioactive wasteland scavenging, V.A.T.S. combat, and environmental storytelling in an earlier Capital Wasteland.

Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.5%, Open World 29.8%, RPG 8.6%, Survival 6%, Shooter 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It retains Fallout 4's shooting, loot, crafting, building, and open-world questing systems while making Appalachia an optional shared online wasteland.

Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.

Why similar: Open World 49.2%, RPG 14%, Great Soundtrack 7.7%, Story Rich 4.6%, First-Person 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Bethesda's fantasy counterpart captures Fallout 4's core appeal of open-ended roaming, dungeon discovery, modding, loot, character builds, and endlessly interruptible quests.

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Why similar: Open World 32.9%, RPG 10.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Action RPG 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It carries Bethesda's familiar first-person RPG structure into space with exploration, dialogue choices, crafting, companions, outpost building, and extensive player customization.

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.

Why similar: Open World 32.1%, FPS 9.7%, RPG 8.6%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its dense open city, first-person gunplay, cybernetic builds, side quests, and character-driven stories provide a more polished but similarly role-playing-focused alternative.

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.3%, Open World 26.1%, FPS 8.9%, Shooter 6.3%, Survival 6%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs an oppressive radioactive open world with first-person firefights, scavenging, survival pressure, emergent encounters, and exploration of dangerous anomalies.

Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.9%, Open World 20.7%, FPS 9%, Shooter 5.8%, Story Rich 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric post-apocalyptic shooter blends hazardous expeditions, weapon customization, scavenging, moral choices, and semi-open regions full of ruined-world detail.

A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.1%, Open World 24.5%, FPS 7.8%, Action RPG 6.6%, First-Person 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Atomfall offers a compact British nuclear wasteland where investigation, improvised combat, scavenging, and player-led exploration determine how you uncover its mysteries.

RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.4%, Open World 29.9%, FPS 13.1%, Shooter 7.8%, First-Person 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: RAGE 2 emphasizes the explosive open-world shooting and post-apocalyptic vehicle combat that make Fallout 4's action-focused moments satisfying.

ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.

Why similar: Open World 37%, Post-apocalyptic 26.5%, RPG 12.7%, Sci-fi 5.5%, Third Person 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This rugged open-world RPG mixes a post-collapse sci-fi setting with faction allegiance, jetpack exploration, crafting, companion relationships, and consequential character progression.

Dive into a transformed vibrant post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe. Lead the fight against the Highwaymen, as they seek to take over the last remaining resources.

Why similar: Open World 33.8%, Post-apocalyptic 28.3%, FPS 10.7%, Shooter 6.9%, First-Person 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides colorful post-nuclear exploration, scavenging, outpost liberation, crafting upgrades, and improvised first-person combat in a reclaimed American frontier.

You've just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 45.2%, Open World 23.4%, RPG 14.9%, Sci-fi 4.9%, Exploration 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: The original Fallout offers the foundational version of the series' ruined-world atmosphere, moral choices, dark comedy, and character-stat-based role-playing.

Fallout® 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. It's been 80 long years since your ancestors trod across the wastelands.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 42.5%, Open World 21.3%, RPG 13.4%, Great Soundtrack 4.7%, Sci-fi 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Fallout 2 is an older but exceptionally choice-driven wasteland RPG whose dark humor, branching quests, and open-ended problem solving underpin the modern series.

In this sequel to the vintage Open World RPG ELEX, Jax must once again unite the free people of the Science-Fantasy world of Magalan against a new threat - the Skyands, who want to change the face of the planet forever.

Why similar: Open World 29.2%, Post-apocalyptic 23%, RPG 8.9%, Action RPG 8.3%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: ELEX II expands its predecessor's faction-heavy open-world RPG formula with jetpack traversal, ranged combat, companions, crafting, and a science-fantasy world recovering from catastrophe.

Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 43.2%, Open World 26.5%, RPG 11.3%, Story Rich 8.3%, Character Customization 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although turn-based and isometric, it delivers a reactive post-apocalyptic RPG with squad building, bizarre factions, difficult choices, and extensive consequences.

Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.7%, Open World 31.5%, Survival 4.7%, Exploration 4.4%, Third Person 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Mad Max captures the lonely scavenger fantasy of a devastated open world, replacing Fallout's settlement building with vehicle construction and brutal wasteland driving.

ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.7%, Open World 19.2%, Exploration 10.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, RPG 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Inspired by classic Fallout, it focuses on exploring a Soviet-flavored wasteland, managing supplies, building a character, and resolving quests through varied RPG skills.

Terminator: Resistance, is a first-person shooter set during the 'Future War' scenario that was only glimpsed at in the iconic films, 'THE TERMINATOR' and 'T2: JUDGMENT DAY'. The machines are destined to lose, but at what cost?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.7%, Open World 19%, FPS 10.6%, RPG 6.1%, Sci-fi 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a story-driven first-person post-apocalyptic RPG shooter with exploration, hacking, crafting, dialogue decisions, and an oppressive machine-war setting.

A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 42.8%, Open World 15%, RPG 11.3%, Exploration 7.5%, Sci-fi 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Encased offers an isometric alternative centered on a sealed hostile zone, faction choices, skill checks, survival resources, and multiple ways to tackle quests.

Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

Why similar: Open World 40.6%, Post-apocalyptic 32.6%, Survival 7.9%, Third-Person Shooter 4.4%, Story Rich 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world collapse story combines scavenging, crafting, upgradeable weapons and bike travel with dangerous hordes and a strong sense of traveling through abandoned territory.

UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 47.2%, RPG 18.5%, Open World 16.5%, Sci-fi 5%, Atmospheric 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep character builds, harsh underground post-apocalypse, looting, crafting, and highly tactical encounters suit players who enjoy Fallout's RPG systems most.

Experience the critically acclaimed Horizon Zero Dawn™ with stunning new visuals and upgraded features. In a far future where colossal machines roam the Earth, pockets of humanity survive in unique tribes among the lush, overgrown ruins of our long-lost civilization.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.7%, Open World 33.7%, Third Person 7.8%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Story Rich 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-collapse open world offers extensive exploration, crafting, side quests, environmental lore, and a satisfying loop of hunting machines for upgrades.

Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.

Why similar: Open World 32.5%, Post-apocalyptic 29.9%, Action RPG 8.3%, Exploration 8.3%, Survival 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its ruined city rewards first-person exploration, scavenging, crafting, faction decisions, and freeform encounters, with parkour and zombies adding a faster survival focus.

The Technomancer is a sci-fi RPG that offers players plenty of dynamic combat action based on 4 skill trees dedicated to 3 combat styles and the destructive electrical powers of the Technomancers.

Why similar: Open World 26.3%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, RPG 14.4%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Third Person 6%

Why You'll Like It: This companion-driven sci-fi RPG explores a struggling Martian society through faction quests, crafting, dialogue choices, and multiple combat styles.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Open World 44.3%, Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Survival 14.2%, Sandbox 5%, RPG 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into survival and community management, but its open-world scavenging, base building, resource gathering, and zombie-threat escalation echo Fallout 4's settlement loop.

Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.

Why similar: Open World 34%, RPG 13.6%, Exploration 9.2%, Action RPG 8%, Great Soundtrack 6.3%

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.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.7%, Open World 27.1%, RPG 7.3%, Exploration 5.1%, FPS 4%

The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.

Why similar: Open World 28.9%, RPG 15.9%, Action RPG 11.3%, Exploration 10.3%, First-Person 7.4%

Fallout 4, the legendary post-apocalyptic adventure from Bethesda Game Studios and winner of more than 200 ‘Best Of’ awards, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year, comes in its entirety to VR.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.2%, Open World 27.6%, Shooter 7.7%, RPG 7.4%, FPS 5.9%

PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, released in 2009. ---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.

Why similar: Open World 41%, RPG 14.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.5%, Exploration 6.5%, First-Person 5.1%

Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 58.8%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 5.8%, RPG 4.7%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 40.9%, Open World 19.9%, FPS 14.6%, Shooter 7.4%, First-Person 3.4%

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.

Why similar: Open World 38.9%, RPG 14.6%, Great Soundtrack 11.9%, Exploration 5.2%, First-Person 4.9%

Experience Aloy’s legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a future Earth ruled by Machines. Use devastating tactical attacks against your prey and explore a majestic open world in this award-winning action RPG!

Why similar: Open World 33.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, RPG 6.9%, Story Rich 5.2%, Exploration 5.1%

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Why similar: Open World 27.6%, Post-apocalyptic 24.9%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%, Story Rich 7.2%, Exploration 6.7%

Fight to liberate a war-torn Himalayan region in this open world FPS. Wield a deadly arsenal, dominate land and sky with gyrocopters and war elephants, and take on enemy territory solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Open World 42.6%, FPS 12.2%, Shooter 9.3%, First-Person 5.8%, Exploration 4%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl, the first chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy, which started it all.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26%, Shooter 11.3%, FPS 10.9%, Exploration 10.3%, RPG 10.2%

You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.

Why similar: Open World 45.5%, RPG 12.6%, Great Soundtrack 8.9%, Story Rich 8.5%, Atmospheric 6%

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Open World 34.4%, Post-apocalyptic 25.6%, Survival 11.5%, RPG 6%, Sandbox 5%

A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.

Why similar: Open World 34.1%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Third-Person Shooter 10.4%, Shooter 8.8%, RPG 6.3%

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.

Why similar: Open World 39.8%, RPG 10.6%, Exploration 8.7%, Action RPG 6.4%, Story Rich 5.2%

Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.

Why similar: FPS 30.9%, Shooter 17.5%, First-Person 9.8%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%, Atmospheric 7.5%

Experience the epic Horizon Forbidden West™ in its entirety with bonus content and the Burning Shores expansion included. The Burning Shores add-on contains additional content for Aloy’s adventure, including new storylines, characters, and experiences in a stunning yet hazardous new area.

Why similar: Open World 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 24%, Exploration 7.4%, RPG 6.3%, Story Rich 5%

Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.

Why similar: Open World 39.5%, Great Soundtrack 13.2%, Story Rich 7.9%, Third-Person Shooter 6.3%, Third Person 6.1%

Explore the mysterious, beautiful, yet dark world of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in this post-apocalyptic action-RPG. Make your mark on this world, through your character development, choices and playstyle. But remember – everything has a price and consequences.

Why similar: Open World 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, RPG 6.9%, FPS 6.9%, Sci-fi 6.2%

Beyond Mankind: The Awakening is an indie old school type RPG taking place in a post-apocalyptic world. The game sports a mature and deep narrative, rich exploration, tense combat, and immersive RPG mechanics.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.7%, Shooter 8.3%, Action RPG 7.7%, Exploration 7.7%, FPS 7.4%

PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Deluxe Edition, released in 2009.---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.

Why similar: Open World 41%, RPG 14.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.5%, Exploration 6.5%, First-Person 5.1%

A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.

Why similar: Open World 49.1%, RPG 14.8%, Great Soundtrack 6.7%, First-Person 6.3%, Exploration 5.2%

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World 41.8%, Exploration 13.3%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Sandbox 8.1%, Survival 7.8%

Sam – with companions by his side – sets out on a new journey to save humanity from extinction. Join them as they traverse a world beset by otherworldly enemies, obstacles and a haunting question: should we have connected?

Why similar: Open World 29.3%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, Exploration 9.8%, Third-Person Shooter 8%, Sci-fi 7.3%

In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 46.1%, FPS 12.7%, Shooter 7.6%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Story Rich 6.6%

ATOM RPG: Trudograd is a turn-based post-apocalyptic roleplaying game, which continues the story of ATOM RPG as a stand-alone sequel/expansion, and follows the traditions set by classic cRPGs such as the early Fallout and Wasteland titles.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31%, Open World 26.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, RPG 8.2%, Survival 7.5%