Games Like Fallout: New Vegas

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 25.9%, Open World 23.1%, Moddable 17.7%, RPG 10.7%, FPS 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest companion to New Vegas, offering Bethesda-style first-person exploration, scavenging, character builds, and a nuclear wasteland full of side stories.

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

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 retains the first-person wasteland sandbox, looting, companions, V.A.T.S. combat, and extensive mod support, though with less intricate 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 42.8%, Open World 21.5%, RPG 20.4%, Sci-fi 3.6%, Story Rich 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: New Vegas draws heavily from Fallout 2's irreverent wasteland tone, branching quests, strange factions, and unusually broad player agency.

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 43.4%, Open World 22.5%, RPG 21.6%, Sci-fi 4.5%, Exploration 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: The original Fallout establishes the series' desolate retro-future atmosphere, moral choices, and open-ended post-nuclear role-playing foundations.

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 38.6%, Open World 23.7%, RPG 15.2%, Character Customization 9.9%, Story Rich 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based format differs, but its bleakly comic post-apocalyptic setting, faction choices, skill checks, and consequential quests strongly evoke New Vegas's RPG heart.

From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 48.9%, RPG 25.4%, Open World 12.5%, Sci-fi 2.8%, Survival 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a deep, choice-driven wasteland RPG where party builds and decisions can radically alter quests, settlements, and endings.

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 27.6%, Open World 27.5%, FPS 9%, RPG 6.8%, Survival 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the series' immersive, dangerous open-world scavenging and faction-driven survival into a modern first-person post-apocalyptic adventure.

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 35.6%, Open World 19.8%, RPG 14.2%, Survival 7.8%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This Fallout-inspired Soviet wasteland RPG emphasizes skill checks, eccentric humor, exploration, and player-led solutions to quests.

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 31.6%, Open World 26.8%, RPG 12.6%, Survival 7.1%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A standalone follow-up with deeper combat and a dense post-apocalyptic city full of factions, dialogue choices, and improvised problem-solving.

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 34.1%, RPG 13.7%, FPS 9.9%, Sci-fi 7%, Story Rich 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A richly realized first-person open world with build variety, companions, morally messy quests, and narrative decisions provides a polished futuristic alternative.

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 44.6%, RPG 26.4%, Open World 15.7%, Sci-fi 4.5%, Atmospheric 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving underground post-collapse setting rewards careful character builds, exploration, faction involvement, and highly specialized role-playing choices.

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 32.2%, Moddable 24.2%, RPG 18.2%, First-Person 4%, Action RPG 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its immense freedom, unusual worldbuilding, build-driven exploration, dense questing, and mod scene make it a foundational alternative for New Vegas explorers.

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 37.9%, Moddable 23%, RPG 16.2%, Character Customization 6.4%, Story Rich 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Skyrim trades guns and wastelands for fantasy but delivers the same accessible first-person exploration, emergent side adventures, builds, and enormous mod ecosystem.

Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.

Why similar: RPG 55.7%, Story Rich 22.4%, Sci-fi 21.9%

Why You'll Like It: This reactive sci-fi RPG offers New Vegas-style factions, mutually exclusive quest resolutions, skill-based dialogue, and consequences aboard a deteriorating generation ship.

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 36.6%, Post-apocalyptic 26.2%, RPG 18.9%, Sci-fi 5.2%, Story Rich 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its rough-edged open world rewards patient exploration and lets you navigate rival factions, choice-heavy quests, and a hybrid sci-fi post-apocalypse.

Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

Why similar: RPG 52.5%, Action RPG 11.2%, Story Rich 10.2%, First-Person 6.4%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person urban RPG structure, memorable hub exploration, faction alliances, dialogue builds, and alternate quest solutions feel spiritually close to New Vegas.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: RPG 34.8%, Open World 22.2%, Story Rich 18.1%, Character Customization 6.3%, Exploration 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: While it has no shooting, it is one of the strongest modern examples of deeply reactive writing, political factions, skill checks, and role-playing freedom.

You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. When a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes.

Why similar: RPG 32.2%, FPS 18.9%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Story Rich 11.2%, First-Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines first-person combat and stealth with augment-based builds, hub exploration, dialogue choices, and missions designed for multiple approaches.

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 34.5%, Open World 23.2%, FPS 9.7%, Story Rich 6.1%, Survival 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a story-rich first-person journey through a devastated Russia, mixing dangerous scavenging expeditions, weapon customization, and semi-open exploration.

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 36.7%, Open World 34.3%, Survival 4.7%, RPG 3.9%, Action 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the lonely desert-road atmosphere, scrap-built upgrades, hostile outposts, and vehicular wasteland traversal that make New Vegas's Mojave so appealing.

Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!

Why similar: Open World 46.7%, RPG 23.8%, Story Rich 7.5%, First-Person 7.2%, Action RPG 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Though historical rather than post-nuclear, it excels at grounded open-world role-playing, faction reputation, immersive systems, and quest solutions shaped by your skills.

Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.

Why similar: RPG 51.9%, Story Rich 15.6%, Open World 14%, Character Customization 7.4%, Adventure 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact isometric world revolves around political allegiance, difficult moral choices, and a story that reacts strongly to the regime and role you embrace.

Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

Why similar: RPG 40.1%, Story Rich 15.1%, Open World 14.6%, Moddable 14%, Character Customization 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its party-based combat is different, but its companion relationships, faction politics, origin-driven role-playing, and major story consequences suit New Vegas fans.

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 28.5%, Moddable 16.8%, RPG 13.4%, Sci-fi 7%, Character Customization 5.5%

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

Why similar: Open World 35.1%, RPG 21.2%, Character Customization 8%, Action RPG 7.5%, Exploration 6.4%

The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.

Why similar: RPG 43.4%, Story Rich 28%, Atmospheric 16.1%, Adventure 6.7%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This demanding low-fantasy RPG is exceptionally committed to alternate paths, faction loyalties, skill-based solutions, and consequences that can close or create entire storylines.

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 34.7%, Open World 31%, RPG 13.5%, Survival 5.8%, FPS 4.6%

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 25.9%, Open World 23.7%, Moddable 13.9%, RPG 9.6%, FPS 3.4%

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

Why similar: Open World 28.1%, RPG 23.3%, Action RPG 9.9%, First-Person 7.1%, Exploration 6.7%

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 32.5%, Open World 25.7%, FPS 7.9%, Action RPG 6.3%, First-Person 5.5%

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 32.1%, Moddable 25.7%, RPG 16.8%, First-Person 3.9%, Character Customization 3.5%

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 32.5%, Open World 28.9%, RPG 11.7%, FPS 5.9%, Shooter 4.1%

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 42.6%, Open World 20.8%, FPS 14.6%, Shooter 3.9%, RPG 3.7%

Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.

Why similar: Open World 38.5%, Western 29.4% ★, Story Rich 8.2%, Shooter 3.7%, FPS 3.4%

Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.

Why similar: Western 39.1% ★, Open World 37.8%, Story Rich 8.7%, Singleplayer 2.9%, Shooter 2.9%

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 40%, Moddable 18.9%, RPG 18.1%, First-Person 5.1%, Character Customization 3.7%

Wild West and Wizards is an open world exploration RPG set in a re-imagined new frontier. Pick a class and level up unlocking abilities and exploring a world filled with quests, loot, outlaws, bosses, spells, caves, towns, and other mysterious places.

Why similar: Western 25.8% ★, Open World 21.4%, RPG 14.2%, FPS 7.4%, Character Customization 4.9%

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 62.5%, Survival 16.3%, RPG 7.6%, Sandbox 4.6%, Singleplayer 4%

Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.

Why similar: Open World 55.7%, Moddable 12.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Action 5.3%, Shooter 4.6%

You are a gun for hire, trapped in a war-torn African state, stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to make this country your home. You must identify and exploit your enemies' weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion,...

Why similar: Open World 49.6%, FPS 18%, First-Person 5.8%, Shooter 5.3%, Action 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 28%, RPG 16.7%, FPS 11.4%, Exploration 7.5%, First-Person 6.8%

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 34.8%, Post-apocalyptic 29.1%, FPS 10.6%, First-Person 4.9%, RPG 3.7%

BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.

Why similar: FPS 28.6%, Story Rich 14.3%, RPG 11.8%, First-Person 9.2%, Atmospheric 8.7%

BIOMUTANT® is an open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu fable RPG, with a unique martial arts styled combat system allowing you to mix melee, shooting and mutant ability action.

Why similar: Open World 39%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, RPG 12.3%, Character Customization 5.6%, Action RPG 3.8%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the prequel chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy. With the ability to directly influence the balance of power through Faction Wars, step into the boots of Scar — a seasoned mercenary, able to somehow survive deadly Emissions.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.1%, RPG 17.4%, FPS 11.5%, Exploration 7.5%, First-Person 6.7%

Build your path in this alien world. Do a dirty job for food or become the one who makes calls. Sometimes the right word makes a bigger impact than a big gun. Explore local culture and mysteries, and discover the harsh yet beautiful nature in this handcrafted singleplayer action RPG.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Open World 23.6%, Western 22.2% ★, RPG 8.8%, Action RPG 7.2%

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 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, RPG 10.5%, FPS 6.6%, Sci-fi 6%

The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is the ultimate way to play the award-winning RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. Including the base game and all DLC, this remastered masterpiece is the absolute best version of The Outer Worlds.

Why similar: RPG 21.7%, FPS 13.8%, Action RPG 13.1%, Exploration 8.7%, First-Person 8.5%

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 32.1%, Moddable 25.7%, RPG 16.8%, First-Person 3.9%, Character Customization 3.5%

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 36.7%, Post-apocalyptic 27.1%, Survival 11.4%, RPG 9.5%, Sandbox 4%

Tactical Squad-Based Combat comes to the Fallout® Universe! You are the wretched refuse. You may be born from dirt, but we will forge you into steel. You will learn to bend; if not you, will you break. In these dark times, the Brotherhood - your Brotherhood - is all that stands between the rekindled flame of civilization and the howling,...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 56.9%, RPG 18.1%, Open World 13%, Sci-fi 5%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Z.O.N.A: Origin is an immersive adventure in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Dive into a captivating story, explore a stunning open world, avoid dangerous anomalies, and hunt for powerful artifacts. Every choice you make can be decisive in this unpredictable world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.1%, Open World 24%, RPG 10.6%, Action RPG 5.9%, Exploration 5.5%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat follows the story of special service agent Major Degtyarev as he investigates the fate of a lost expedition.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.6%, RPG 17.1%, FPS 11.5%, Exploration 7.4%, First-Person 6.8%

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 26.4%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, RPG 21.7%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Action 3.8%