Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
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This open-world RPG places players in a post-apocalyptic setting. Released in 2009 by Bethesda Softworks, it has garnered 43,443 Steam reviews with 82% positive ratings. The Game of the Year Edition includes all DLC.
Overview
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition is a 2009 RPG game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. On Steam it has gathered 55,587 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the RPG category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Bethesda Game Studios with publisher Bethesda Softworks is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how RPG projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.0 million to 7.0 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
55,587
Positive
82%
Steam appid
22370
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.03.0M to 7.0M
units (median: 5.0M)
≈ $34.3M to $80.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2009 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition at roughly 3.0 million to 7.0 million copies, with a median around 5.0 million, derived from its 55,587 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $57.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $12.32Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.32 to $19.99, averaging $19.02 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $12.32 on 2026-03-26.
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Where to buy
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- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.82 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Open WorldRPGPost-apocalypticSingleplayerModdableFirst-PersonSci-fiFPSAdventureActionExplorationReplay ValueAtmosphericSandboxThird PersonStory RichShooterAction RPGCult ClassicGreat Soundtrack
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition sold?
- indielist estimates Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition has sold between 3,001,698 and 7,003,962 units (median 5,002,830), derived from its 55,587 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition?
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
- When was Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition released?
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition was released in 2009.
- How many reviews does Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition have on Steam?
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition has 55,587 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition within the RPG segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Bethesda Game Studios's other releases and Bethesda Softworks's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next RPG game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.