Games like Fallout: New Vegas
If Fallout: New Vegas is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4 and Humanity Lost — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modding scene is unmatched, atmospheric and contemplative. 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: New Vegas is a post-apocalyptic action RPG developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released in 2010 at $9.99. Players explore a wasteland shaped by faction politics and consequential choices, navigating a world where every decision can reshape both story and setting. The game features skill-based dialogue systems, deep weapon modding, and a hardcore mode for increased survival challenge. Reviewers describe the setting as atmospheric and immersive, while players highlight encounters with morally gray factions where no ending feels entirely right. The title runs as playable on Steam Deck and holds a 96% positive rating from over 166,000 Steam reviews.
About Fallout: New Vegas: Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Fallout: New Vegas
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Top pick for Fallout: New Vegas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Fallout 4
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Second-strongest match for Fallout: New Vegas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
Humanity Lost
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Third-strongest match for Fallout: New Vegas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
Will you save humanity? You are on a mission to find a new planet for humans to inhabit. In this story driven FPS space opera you will explore open world planets, find weapons, upgrade your character, and befriend alien species.
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Ranked #4 for Fallout: New Vegas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with 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.
The Outer Worlds
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Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Ranked #5 for Fallout: New Vegas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Ranked #6 for Fallout: New Vegas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
Discover the vast Chornobyl Exclusion Zone full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts. Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the Heart of Chornobyl. Make your choices wisely, as they will determine your fate in the end.
RAGE
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Ranked #7 for Fallout: New Vegas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
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!
Z.O.N.A: Origin
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Ranked #8 for Fallout: New Vegas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
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Fallout 4
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Reviewers of Fallout: New Vegas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
Fallout 3
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Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Reviewers of Fallout: New Vegas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
The Outer Worlds 2
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Reviewers of Fallout: New Vegas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.
The Outer Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Reviewers of Fallout: New Vegas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
Red Dead Redemption 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Reviewers of Fallout: New Vegas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
Mass Effect (2007)
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Shares an immersive mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Reviewers of Fallout: New Vegas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Reviewers of Fallout: New Vegas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
Baldur's Gate 3
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Shares a dark mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Reviewers of Fallout: New Vegas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fallout: New Vegas at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Fallout: New Vegas on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Fallout: New Vegas on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Fallout: New Vegas on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Fallout: New Vegas on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Fallout: New Vegas on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Fallout: New Vegas on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
The Test
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Priced ~80% under Fallout: New Vegas on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~90% under Fallout: New Vegas on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.).
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More from Obsidian Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Obsidian Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Grounded
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
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Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
The Outer Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
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.
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
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Shares a dark mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
Grounded 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas. Shares Action with Fallout: New Vegas.
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Pillars of Eternity
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Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
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Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Fallout: New Vegas.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas. Shares RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas. Shares Action and RPG with Fallout: New Vegas.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Frequently asked about Fallout: New Vegas
- Does Fallout: New Vegas run on Steam Deck?
- Fallout: New Vegas 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: New Vegas cost?
- Fallout: New Vegas is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Fallout: New Vegas?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fallout: New Vegas are Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, Humanity Lost.
- Who developed Fallout: New Vegas?
- Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks.
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