Fallout 76 similar games & best alternatives

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Fallout 76

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One • 2020

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Large open world with rich exploration
  • Friendly and helpful community
  • Strong multiplayer cooperation
  • Extensive camp building and customization
  • Improved stability and content since launch

Things to keep in mind

  • Bugs and optimization issues remain
  • Grindy endgame and bullet sponge enemies
  • Some repetitive quests and events
  • Paywall for convenience features (fallout 1st)
  • Performance issues on some systems

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Lord of the Rings Online™

  • Warframe

  • FINAL FANTASY® XI: Ultimate Collection Seekers Edition

  • Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

  • Embers Adrift

  • Valheim

More competitive

Games that feels like Fallout 76 but with more competition against others

  • STALZONE

  • Hunt: Showdown 1896

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin

  • Destiny 2

  • SCUM

Less intimate

Games that feels like Fallout 76 but with less focus on close relationships

  • Borderlands 3

  • Night of the Dead

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Dying Light

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • Generation Zero®

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Fallout 76 but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Voidtrain

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • Dying Light: The Beast

  • Shadow Warrior 2

  • EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5

  • Fallout 4

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Fallout 4

  • Fallout 3

  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR

  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

  • Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Fallout 76. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Fallout 76. These titles are not in What to play next.

Fallout 76: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

Last update: 21/08/2026