Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

Bethesda Game Studios · December 17, 2009 · Open World, RPG, Post-apocalyptic, Singleplayer, Moddable

Buy the Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition key for GOG from Loaded at $5.79 — the cheapest of 13 stores we compare.

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$5.79-70%
$21.39lowest tracked $2.91
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Where to buy Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition — official stores

Fanatical
Standard Edition · Steam
-70%
$5.99
$19.99
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GOG
GOG
Standard Edition · DRM-Free
-67%
$6.59
$19.99
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Gamesplanet
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$17.99
$19.99
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GreenManGaming
Standard Edition · Steam
$19.99
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Steam
Steam
Standard Edition · Steam
$19.99
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Humble Store
Humble Store
Standard Edition · Steam
$19.99
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Epic Game Store
Epic Game Store
Standard Edition · Epic Games
$19.99
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Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Standard Edition · Microsoft Store
$19.99
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Cheapest Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition keys — keyshops

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Loaded
Standard Edition · GOG
-73%
$5.79
$21.39
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YUPLAY
Standard Edition · Steam
-70%
$6.63
$22.42
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Gameseal
Standard Edition · Steam
$6.99
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CJS CD Keys
Standard Edition · Steam
$8.22
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Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition price by region

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition costs £4.79 in the United Kingdom, €5.19 in Europe (EUR), $5.79 in the United States, $5.79 in Georgia (USD), CA$7.25 in Canada, A$8.98 in Australia, NZ$11.25 in New Zealand, R$13.19 in Brazil and zł29.69 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £4.79 −70% £4.79 £4.94 10
Europe (EUR) €5.19 −70% €5.99 €5.19 11
United Statesyour region $5.79 −70% $5.99 $5.79 13
Georgia (USD) $5.79 −67% $6.59 $5.79 12
Canada CA$7.25 −70% CA$7.25 CA$9.23 12
Australia A$8.98 −70% A$8.98 — 11
New Zealand NZ$11.25 −67% NZ$11.25 — 9
Brazil R$13.19 −67% R$13.19 — 12
Poland zł29.69 −67% zł29.69 — 9

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

Trailers & screenshots

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About Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

✦ AI summary

Explore a post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. where your choices shape the wasteland's fate, from diplomacy to all-out combat using the strategic V.A.T.S. targeting system. This Game of the Year Edition bundles the acclaimed base game with five expansions, adding new regions, raised level caps, and hours of fresh content across alien ships, military simulations, and swampland mysteries.

Prepare for the Future™
With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition includes all five of the Fallout 3 Game Add-on Packs:
  • Operation: Anchorage - Enter a military simulation and fight in the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders.
  • The Pitt - Travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh and become embroiled in a conflict between slaves and their Raider masters.
  • Broken Steel - Increase your level cap to 30, and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime.
  • Point Lookout - Embark on a mysterious and open-ended adventure in a huge, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland.
  • Mothership Zeta - Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the alien mothership, orbiting miles above the Capital Wasteland.

Key Features

  • Limitless Freedom - Take in the sights and sounds of the vast Capital Wasteland! See the great monuments of the United States lying in post-apocalyptic ruin! You make the choices that define you and change the world. Just keep an eye on your Rad Meter!
  • Experience S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Vault-Tec engineers bring you the latest in human ability simulation — the SPECIAL Character System! Utilizing new breakthroughs in points-based ability representation, SPECIAL affords unlimited customization of your character. Also included are dozens of unique skills and perks to choose from, each with a dazzling variety of effects!
  • Fantastic New Views - The wizards at Vault-Tec have done it again! No longer constrained to just one view, experience the world from 1st or 3rd person perspective. Customize your view with the touch of a button!
  • The Power of Choice - Feeling like a dastardly villain today, or a Good Samaritan? Pick a side or walk the line, as every situation can be dealt with in many different ways. Talk out your problems in a civilized fashion, or just flash your Plasma Rifle.
  • Blast 'Em Away With V.A.T.S. - Even the odds in combat with the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System for your Pip-Boy Model 3000! V.A.T.S. allows you to pause time in combat, target specific body parts on your target, queue up attacks, and let Vault-Tec take out your aggression for you. Rain death and destruction in an all-new cinematic presentation.
  • Mind-Blowing Artificial Intelligence - At Vault-Tec, we realize that the key to reviving civilization after a global nuclear war is people. Our best minds pooled their efforts to produce an advanced version of Radiant AI, America's First Choice in Human Interaction Simulation. Facial expressions, gestures, unique dialog, and lifelike behavior are brought together with stunning results by the latest in Vault-Tec technology.
  • Eye-Popping Prettiness* - Witness the harsh realities of nuclear fallout rendered like never before in modern super-deluxe HD graphics. From the barren Wasteland, to the danger-filled offices and metro tunnels of DC, to the hideous rotten flesh of a mutant's face.
*Protective Eyewear Encouraged.

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise Fallout 3 for its engaging exploration, strong atmosphere in the Capital Wasteland, and excellent combination of gameplay mechanics including dialogue, RPG progression, and combat that lets players forge their own path. However, some criticize the game's age-related bugs, dated graphics, occasional confusing level design in metro tunnels, and particularly frustrate with the ending's forced narrative choices. Despite these flaws, most fans of the franchise appreciate it as a landmark entry that established the 3D Fallout formula, though opinions vary on whether it holds up compar

Recommended Sep 30, 2026
just a really great game
Recommended Sep 29, 2026
amazing gsme and a good test game for linux
Recommended Sep 29, 2026
Underrated game. Its unrecognized mostly due to peoples rose tinted glasses for New Vegas. However, even though I play both games with mods, this title is by far more grounded in what a fallout game should be. Gritty and unforgiving. Although arguably more linear, than New Vegas, where it shines it its ability to keep the player hooked with unique side quests and a desolate world begging for exploration.
Recommended Sep 29, 2026
this is my first fallout experience and i say this is a very good game i like it alot, i didnt need any heavy mods for this game to work, i only needed a simple mod that is like 100kb to install in the root folder, but i was little bit surprised that the main game is little bit short, but i will continue to play through the dlc's
Recommended Sep 29, 2026
Personally my first foray into the Fallout franchise, and one of the reasons I really fell in love with the series. Is it perfect? Definitely not. It's a bit buggy at times with graphical glitches and enemies turning into spaghettis randomly, but it's a Bethesda game, so I guess I'm not surprised. Still playable last time I checked, so that's good enough for me at least. Personally I don't play with mods, so perhaps some of the bugginess of the experience could be fixed that way, but otherwise you get what you pay for. It's an older game, so the visuals are decent enough; very on brand for a post apocalypse with tons of browns and grays to wash out the environment, but not a total assault on the eyes ugly. Is it fun? Well let's just say that I don't have over 300 hours sunk into it for nothing! It's really solid in terms of being an open-world post-apocalyptic game. There is so much more to explore and do outside of the main questline that it is easily a 100 hour game if you are as easily distractible as I am. My favorite part is the karma system (which is why I have so many hours under my belt; I did 3 playthroughs with each main karma rating. One good, one pure evil, and one …
Recommended Sep 28, 2026
Overall an amazing game. The amount of content will keep you busy and the characters you meet are interesting and fun to interact with. Gun play is a little janky and having the camera zoom in on an NPCs dead eyed stare while they talk to you is kind of creepy.

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