Every Fallout Game, Ranked by Fans
Rank every Fallout game head-to-head: New Vegas vs Fallout 3, Fallout 4 vs Fallout 2, the 1997 original vs Fallout 76, plus Tactics and Shelter. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel2004 · PS2 / Xbox
Fallout 32008 · PS3 / Xbox 360 / PC
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 9 start.
How the Fallout Games bracket works
This Fallout game ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Fallout or Fallout 2? Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel or Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel? — and after 8 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 9-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 9-slot size (Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 9 games in the field. 9 is not a power of two, so 7 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. Entrants are drawn by a seed that changes daily, and New draw picks a fresh one, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
8 picks, 4 rounds
- Opening round1 matchup
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 9 entrants
All 9 entrants are listed below, including Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.
- Fallout1997 · PC
- Fallout 21998 · PC
- Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel2001 · PC
- Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel2004 · PS2 / Xbox
- Fallout 32008 · PS3 / Xbox 360 / PC
- Fallout: New Vegas2010 · PS3 / Xbox 360 / PCArtwork: Xbox México / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
- Fallout Shelter2015 · Mobile
- Fallout 42015 · PS4 / Xbox One / PC
- Fallout 762018 · PS4 / Xbox One / PC
Tier list instead?
Load all 9 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own Fallout game bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Pick the game you would rather replay this weekend, not the one that was most important when it came out.
- The default run puts all 9 games in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- Watch for the game you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Questions people ask
How many games are in the Fallout Games bracket?
The pool holds 9 games. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 8 picks across 4 rounds: Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. 7 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 9 slots.
Which games are included?
Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout Shelter, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Fallout Games bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 8 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other game grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 8 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two games that never met. If you would rather place the games into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 9 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these games?
Every completed bracket feeds the Fallout Games community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 9 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own fallout games bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own games, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 9 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.