Games like Fallout 76
If Fallout 76 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Survival, PIONER and Afterinfection — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Fallout 76 is an open-world multiplayer RPG set in post-nuclear America, released in 2020 by Bethesda Game Studios. Players emerge from Vault 76 twenty-five years after nuclear war devastated the landscape, navigating a wasteland alongside other survivors. The game combines survival mechanics with shooter combat, cooperative play, and base-building systems in a setting players describe as infused with dark comedy and satirical takes on capitalism. The title carries a $39.99 price tag and runs as playable on Steam Deck. As of recent Steam reviews, approximately 76% of nearly 45,500 reviews are positive.
About Fallout 76: Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.
Players who liked Fallout 76 also play
Steam players who put hours into Fallout 76 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Dead Survival
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Top pick for Fallout 76 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Dead Survival is a tactical survival FPS, in a post-apocalyptic world !
PIONER
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Fallout 76 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.
Afterinfection
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Third-strongest match for Fallout 76 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
Will To Live Online
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Ranked #4 for Fallout 76 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Deadside
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Ranked #5 for Fallout 76 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
XERA: Survival
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Ranked #6 for Fallout 76 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
7 Days to Die
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Ranked #7 for Fallout 76 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Generation Zero®
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Ranked #8 for Fallout 76 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Fallout 76
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The Outer Worlds
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Reviewers of Fallout 76 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
Guild Wars 2®
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Reviewers of Fallout 76 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Guild Wars 2 is an award-winning online roleplaying game with fast-paced action combat, deep character customization, and no subscription fee required. Choose from an arsenal of professions and weapons, explore a vast open world, compete in PVP modes and more. Join over 16 million players now!
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
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Reviewers of Fallout 76 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
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.
ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
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Reviewers of Fallout 76 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
Stalker
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Reviewers of Fallout 76 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
Tom Clancy’s The Division™
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Reviewers of Fallout 76 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
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.
The Elder Scrolls® Online
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Reviewers of Fallout 76 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fallout 76 at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~63% under Fallout 76 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~75% under Fallout 76 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~88% under Fallout 76 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~63% under Fallout 76 on Steam right now.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Mount & Blade: Warband
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Priced ~50% under Fallout 76 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
OMORI
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Priced ~50% under Fallout 76 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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More from Bethesda Game Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Bethesda Game Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fallout 4
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Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind Fallout 76. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
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.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
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Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind Fallout 76. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
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.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind Fallout 76. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
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Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind Fallout 76. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
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Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind Fallout 76. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
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.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
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Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind Fallout 76. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
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.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind Fallout 76. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
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.
Frequently asked about Fallout 76
- Does Fallout 76 run on Steam Deck?
- Fallout 76 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Fallout 76 cost?
- Fallout 76 is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Fallout 76 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Fallout 76 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Fallout 76?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fallout 76 are Dead Survival, PIONER, Afterinfection.
- Who developed Fallout 76?
- Fallout 76 was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Fallout 76.
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