Fallout 76 Reviews

Fallout 76 is ranked in the 8th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Travis Northup
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
May 9, 2024

In 2024, Fallout 76 finally captures a lot of the post-nuclear experience I love. It trades roleplaying decision-making for multiplayer shooter antics, but it still needs more endgame content and a fair inventory solution.

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Nov 27, 2018

Fallout 76 attempts to take the series into the world of always online multiplayer, but it may have left too much of the original franchise trademarks behind.

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IGN
Top Critic
5 / 10.0
Nov 22, 2018

The rich wasteland map of Fallout 76 is wasted on a mess of bugs, conflicting ideas, and monotony.

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60 / 100
Nov 21, 2018

A beautifully crafted but ultimately repetitive world, and a disappointment when it comes to options on PC.

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Avoid
Nov 20, 2018

Bethesda's attempt at Fallout multiplayer is, like so many of the series' vaults, a failed experiment.

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Nov 19, 2018

Fallout 76 has glimmers of the trademark series' sci-fi splendour, but they're few and far between.

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6 / 10.0
Nov 21, 2018

When Fallout 76 is working as intended, it's an easy game to lose yourself in, as meaningful discoveries are everywhere. But those moments are often destroyed by glitches, crashes, and technical issues

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Edmond Tran
Top Critic
4 / 10
Nov 21, 2018

Fallout's mutation into an online multiplayer hybrid leaves it weak and soulless.

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2.5 / 5.0
Nov 27, 2018

Fallout 76 strives to be both a single player experience and online multiplayer game, and due to the concessions it makes to achieve this, ends up falling short in both objectives.

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Jul 31, 2021

Fallout 76: Steel Reign isn't much to shout about by itself, but it offers a good overview of just how far the game has come since its disastrous launch.

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Unscored
Dec 13, 2018

Fallout 76 feels like an atavistic reprisal of a late-2000s MMO.

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2 / 10.0
Dec 4, 2018
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6 / 10.0
Nov 25, 2018

If you can re-frame Fallout 76 as a survival crafting game in the Fallout universe rather than viewing it as the next instalment in the series then you will have a better time. It is not without its faults, but there is a base there that has the potential to be improved upon as time goes by.

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4 / 10
Nov 19, 2018

Fallout 76 is an ambitious game that's burned by it. The online features hamper what could have been a great Fallout game.

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5.9 / 10.0
Nov 24, 2018

Fallout 76 is a game with alot of potential but with very little to offer.

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2 / 10.0
Nov 27, 2018

All in all, I dreaded every hour I had to keep playing Fallout 76 for review. As soon as the game was beginning to teeter on fun or interesting, a bug or a frustrating gameplay design element would quickly remind me that the game was otherwise. I'm interested to see whether Bethesda will continue to put work towards making this a somewhat enjoyable experience or if they'll just save their money for Fallout 5.

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5.2 / 10.0
Nov 14, 2018

Neither in its concept nor in its execution has convinced us the first Fallout Online, which perhaps should have looked a little more in the mirror of The Elder Scrolls: Online for its debut. Will it come back? Only time will tell.

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Paul Tassi
Top Critic
5 / 10.0
Nov 20, 2018

This is a huge, rare, total miss by Bethesda, and even if it’s improved in time, I can only judge it by the hours I’ve lost to it so far.

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Nov 26, 2018

Brings friends and some patience to enjoy Fallout 76's massive wasteland.

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4 / 10.0
Nov 29, 2018

There's no sugarcoating it: Fallout 76 comes up short at nearly everything it aims to be. It's not a good role-playing game and it's not a good multiplayer experience. It never really feeds into the gradual RPG power fantasy but it's also inadequate as a survival simulator. In wanting to be so much, Fallout 76 doesn't amount to much at all.

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