Fallout: New Vegas similar games & best alternatives

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Fallout: New Vegas

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2010

Should you play it?

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

What works

  • Deep and branching story with meaningful choices
  • Extensive character customization and builds
  • Large open world with rewarding exploration
  • High replayability and excellent dlcs
  • Strong modding community enhancing gameplay

Things to keep in mind

  • Numerous bugs and crashes requiring mods
  • Dated graphics and clunky controls
  • Some ai and quest bugs
  • No multiplayer or cooperative modes
  • Game ends after main story without post-endgame play

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Summoner

  • Pine

  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition

  • Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

  • Planet Alcatraz 2

  • Fallout 3

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Fallout: New Vegas but with less leadership over others

  • Painkiller Overdose

  • Exoplanet: First Contact

  • NieR:Automata™

  • The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

  • Metro 2033 Redux

  • Outcast - Second Contact

More fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Fallout: New Vegas but with a stronger sense of community

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • Dying Light

  • Fallout 76

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

  • Once Human

More social

Games that feels like Fallout: New Vegas but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Borderlands 2

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

  • Zeno Clash 2

  • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

  • ELEX

  • SpellForce - Platinum Edition

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Alpha Protocol™

  • The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition

  • The Outer Worlds 2

  • Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

  • Avowed

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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  • 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: New Vegas. These titles are not in What to play next.

Fallout: New Vegas: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026