Can you trust Fallout 76's Steam reviews? Adjusted rating 71.5%

Release date: 2020年4月14日 View on Steam

Official Steam rating
71.9%
141,033 reviews
Adjusted rating
71.5%
95% range 70.7%–72.3%
vs official −0.4pt
Japanese-language reviews
67.1%
1,113 reviews
vs overall −4.8pt

Genuinely great 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-12

Summary

Fallout 76 holds an official Steam rating of 71.9%. After weighting 400 positive and 400 negative reviews by trust, the adjusted rating is 71.5% (95% range 70.7–72.3%), essentially the same as the official figure. Verdict: "Genuinely great" (the adjusted rating is 70% or higher and the positive reviews carry high average trust).

Average trust is 0.76 for positive and 0.78 for negative reviews, but the gap is too small to move the official rating much. The most common discount factor is very short reviews, at 24% of all reviews.

The monthly history (79 months) has no month where volume and negative share jumped together. The rating does not appear to be driven by a single episode.

The last 180 days show 66.2%, 5.7 points below the all-time figure. Sentiment over the past six months is weaker.

Japanese-language reviews (1,113) show 67.1%, close to the overall rating. In the last 180 days, Japanese-language reviews show 56.3%.

The adjusted rating estimates trust from how reviews are written; it does not judge any individual review as fake. Data as of 2026-10-12.

Positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

ConditionPositive reviewsNegative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review2%16%
Very short text29%14%
Key activated outside Steam35%36%
Received for free10%14%
Owns very few games13%8%
Over 100 reviews written2%5%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.760.78

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 96.2 hours.

Rating history

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month (green = positive, red = negative)
0 2,000 4,000 6,000 2020-04: +2,422 / −652 2020-05: +2,153 / −507 2020-06: +1,064 / −366 2020-07: +1,295 / −470 2020-08: +1,010 / −424 2020-09: +520 / −213 2020-10: +899 / −321 2020-11: +2,867 / −442 2020-12: +1,332 / −430 2021-01: +1,117 / −344 2021-02: +648 / −186 2021-03: +497 / −154 2021-04: +511 / −116 2021-05: +435 / −124 2021-06: +1,362 / −439 2021-07: +1,253 / −476 2021-08: +1,177 / −452 2021-09: +923 / −610 2021-10: +1,177 / −427 2021-11: +1,258 / −312 2021-12: +967 / −316 2022-01: +910 / −351 2022-02: +593 / −219 2022-03: +452 / −170 2022-04: +302 / −110 2022-05: +404 / −154 2022-06: +587 / −223 2022-07: +663 / −246 2022-08: +516 / −203 2022-09: +522 / −231 2022-10: +790 / −336 2022-11: +746 / −212 2022-12: +584 / −218 2023-01: +781 / −275 2023-02: +419 / −156 2023-03: +521 / −209 2023-04: +352 / −152 2023-05: +254 / −131 2023-06: +390 / −137 2023-07: +845 / −273 2023-08: +770 / −280 2023-09: +369 / −116 2023-10: +493 / −184 2023-11: +965 / −233 2023-12: +734 / −318 2024-01: +597 / −206 2024-02: +423 / −203 2024-03: +498 / −210 2024-04: +2,954 / −1,076 2024-05: +2,121 / −584 2024-06: +1,055 / −363 2024-07: +955 / −431 2024-08: +557 / −255 2024-09: +457 / −176 2024-10: +407 / −229 2024-11: +921 / −176 2024-12: +760 / −234 2025-01: +387 / −169 2025-02: +273 / −111 2025-03: +475 / −190 2025-04: +340 / −166 2025-05: +274 / −129 2025-06: +330 / −174 2025-07: +409 / −157 2025-08: +454 / −210 2025-09: +331 / −259 2025-10: +660 / −302 2025-11: +988 / −211 2025-12: +986 / −647 2026-01: +1,312 / −814 2026-02: +1,088 / −548 2026-03: +631 / −330 2026-04: +357 / −181 2026-05: +256 / −171 2026-06: +299 / −173 2026-07: +358 / −186 2026-08: +372 / −162 2026-09: +259 / −98 2026-10: +89 / −54 2020/042021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01
Positive share per month (months under 30 reviews omitted)
0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 73.2% 2020-04: 78.8%2020-05: 80.9%2020-06: 74.4%2020-07: 73.4%2020-08: 70.4%2020-09: 70.9%2020-10: 73.7%2020-11: 86.6%2020-12: 75.6%2021-01: 76.5%2021-02: 77.7%2021-03: 76.3%2021-04: 81.5%2021-05: 77.8%2021-06: 75.6%2021-07: 72.5%2021-08: 72.3%2021-09: 60.2%2021-10: 73.4%2021-11: 80.1%2021-12: 75.4%2022-01: 72.2%2022-02: 73.0%2022-03: 72.7%2022-04: 73.3%2022-05: 72.4%2022-06: 72.5%2022-07: 72.9%2022-08: 71.8%2022-09: 69.3%2022-10: 70.2%2022-11: 77.9%2022-12: 72.8%2023-01: 74.0%2023-02: 72.9%2023-03: 71.4%2023-04: 69.8%2023-05: 66.0%2023-06: 74.0%2023-07: 75.6%2023-08: 73.3%2023-09: 76.1%2023-10: 72.8%2023-11: 80.6%2023-12: 69.8%2024-01: 74.3%2024-02: 67.6%2024-03: 70.3%2024-04: 73.3%2024-05: 78.4%2024-06: 74.4%2024-07: 68.9%2024-08: 68.6%2024-09: 72.2%2024-10: 64.0%2024-11: 84.0%2024-12: 76.5%2025-01: 69.6%2025-02: 71.1%2025-03: 71.4%2025-04: 67.2%2025-05: 68.0%2025-06: 65.5%2025-07: 72.3%2025-08: 68.4%2025-09: 56.1%2025-10: 68.6%2025-11: 82.4%2025-12: 60.4%2026-01: 61.7%2026-02: 66.5%2026-03: 65.7%2026-04: 66.4%2026-05: 60.0%2026-06: 63.3%2026-07: 65.8%2026-08: 69.7%2026-09: 72.5%2026-10: 62.2% 2020/042021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01
Reviews per day, last 30 days
0 20 40 60 2026-09-13: +7 / −0 2026-09-14: +5 / −3 2026-09-15: +34 / −7 2026-09-16: +16 / −6 2026-09-17: +10 / −5 2026-09-18: +11 / −2 2026-09-19: +12 / −7 2026-09-20: +15 / −4 2026-09-21: +8 / −2 2026-09-22: +8 / −5 2026-09-23: +5 / −4 2026-09-24: +7 / −5 2026-09-25: +7 / −2 2026-09-26: +7 / −3 2026-09-27: +8 / −2 2026-09-28: +3 / −2 2026-09-29: +7 / −3 2026-09-30: +2 / −1 2026-10-01: +14 / −4 2026-10-02: +10 / −5 2026-10-03: +5 / −3 2026-10-04: +11 / −2 2026-10-05: +6 / −4 2026-10-06: +8 / −6 2026-10-07: +3 / −7 2026-10-08: +8 / −5 2026-10-09: +6 / −7 2026-10-10: +10 / −4 2026-10-11: +5 / −5 2026-10-12: +3 / −2 09/1309/2009/2710/0410/11

Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days71.5%579
Last 180 days66.2%3,942
All time71.9%141,033
Japanese, last 180 days56.3%32

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