How Long It Takes To Beat Every Fallout Game BackToBack

How Long It Takes To Beat Every Fallout Game Back-To-Back

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1 How Long It Takes To Beat Every Fallout Game Back-To-Back

There are five mainline Fallout games, and each features hours’ worth of quests and exploration. How long does it take to beat them all together?

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Bethesda’s post-nuclear RPG series, Fallout, has plenty of hours’ worth of quests, missions, and explorative opportunities for players to discover. It can be a daunting task to tackle the entire series, even if players choose only to play through the five mainline titles – Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4 – rather than all of the franchise’s many spin-offs and other games. Just how long does it take to play the entire Fallout series back-to-back?

Since the release of 2015’s Fallout 4, Bethesda’s recent returns to the world of the Fallout series have largely been in the form of spin-off games. These have included the mobile app Fallout Shelter – also released in 2015 – and the MMORPG Fallout 76. Fallout 76 is still ongoing, with frequent large updates providing new story content and game mechanics for players to return to as well as an expansive online community of other players. It isn’t included on this list since it’s an MMO with new content coming out regularly, but it would add to the total playtime considerably.

Also, as just about every Fallout game includes several packs of DLC (many of which may take hours to complete depending on how many missions are added with each one), the amount of time it takes to beat the series is flexible depending on how many of these DLC expansions a player owns. Different playstyles also have an impact, as completionists will spend far longer trying to 100% the game than those players simply rushing through the main storyline of each Fallout entry. To that end, this article will simply be examining the overall average playtime of each mainline game, including both how long it takes to beat the main story and how long playtimes run when considering bonus content.

How Long Fallout Takes To Beat

According to HowLongToBeat, which polls gamers in order to examine the average playtime of various video games, it takes around 16 hours to complete just the main story of the first Fallout game. The average player will likely also peruse a fair amount of extra content, from secondary missions to side venues across the map, and this can push the total time up to 23 hours instead. This makes it the shortest game in the Fallout series by a significant margin.

How Long Fallout 2 Takes To Beat

The next numbered entry in the series, Fallout 2, leaves players with quite a bit more content to explore overall. The main storyline alone takes over 30 hours to beat, which is more than both the main storyline plus extra content in the previous Fallout game. Players who take more time to fully explore the RPG’s offerings and hidden areas on Fallout 2’s map will instead find themselves spending around 48 hours in the game’s world, which puts it on par with most of the other entries in the series.

How Long Fallout 3 Takes To Beat

Fallout 3 sees another substantial increase in playtime, perhaps due to the technological leaps forward from the previous two entries. Bethesda’s entry also turned the series in a more FPS direction with RPG elements. However, the main story of Fallout 3 alone is a fair bit shorter than that seen in Fallout 2. On average, it takes nearly 23 hours to beat the primary storyline of Fallout 3, compared to Fallout 2’s 30 hours.

Although, the amount of additional content to explore across the Wasteland can push that total up to around 54 hours if players take on side quests and explore more areas in the Wasteland. The amount of unique characters and storytelling present throughout the landscape of Fallout 3 makes this a worthwhile venture to undertake, no matter what playstyle is preferred.

How Long Fallout: New Vegas Takes To Beat

Although Fallout: New Vegas may not be a strictly numbered title in the Fallout series, many consider it a mainline entry regardless. This is due largely to how similar its gameplay is to other Fallout games and the large amount of story content it possesses. The highly-praised main story of Fallout: New Vegas takes about 28 hours to complete for most playstyles. However, this is flexible depending upon which of many routes the player takes to finish the game. Generally, extra content doubles the playtime of Fallout: New Vegas and lands the game at around 60 hours’ worth of gameplay.

How Long Fallout 4 Takes To Beat

Fallout 4, the most recent mainline game in the series given that Fallout 5 has yet to be announced, provides players with around 27 hours’ worth of content if they only explore the main storyline of the Commonwealth. This makes it comparable to the playtimes of Fallout 3 and New Vegas. In terms of extras, though, Fallout 4 has more to offer than just about any other game in the franchise.

Because of this extra amount of content, players can spend more time in Fallout 4 than some of the earlier entries combined. Those who want to take on more side quests and explore extra areas in the Commonwealth can expect to spend just over 80 hours on average with Fallout 4. There’s also a hefty amount of DLC for players to pick up if they’d like to continue their journeys further, which adds even more playtime well beyond the 80-hour mark.