Fallout 4. 14 RPG bestsellers

Darius Matusiak

Fallout 4

Developer: Bethesda Softworks

Year of release: 2015

Estimated number of copies sold: 14 million

NOTES

12 million is the number of copies shipped to stores on the game's very release date. In addition to reporting a result of 1.2 million copies sold on Steam in the first 24 hours, Fallout 4 sold better than Skyrim over a comparable period of time – the first two years. In this case, the estimated sales may be significantly underestimated.

Fallout 4 generally hasn't lived up to its own hype, nor overlapped the bar set by phenomenal New Vegas, but according to reviewers and – in particular – the sales figures, it's still a fairly successful game, despite its many flaws. Anyway, after Fallout 76, I guess there's something we ought to miss about this game. Fans didn't mind the outdated visuals, slightly more emphasis on action, or the abundant, yet mundane collecting of virtual scrap. The freedom in the huge open world, the multitude of tasks, and one-of-a-kind post-apocalyptic atmosphere did their job again.

Part four also did better in time, soon becoming discounted, selling more copies, and, being Fallout, it was a field day for modders. Arguably, it's precisely the activity of Fallout's modding community that allowed the game to keep its appeal for longer. Fans went about fixing the shortcomings and added their own solutions and mechanics, polishing the gameplay and expanding it, which encouraged (and still encourages) you to spend hundreds of hours in this universe. So, what about part five?

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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Fallout 4

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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Dark Souls III

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Monster Hunter: World

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Diablo III

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Final Fantasy VII

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Darius Matusiak

Author: Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.