10 games similar to Fallout: New Vegas, a Shooter, Role-playing (RPG) game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Fallout: New Vegas.
01Shares Role-playing (RPG)ShooterFallout 4 shares New Vegas' first-person post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival and faction choices shape your story across an open wasteland. Both games let you build your character through dialogue trees and companion relationships, tackle combat with guns and stealth, and scavenge for crafting materials and weapons. The core loop of exploration, combat, and moral decision-making remains central to each game's design.
Games like Fallout 4 →
02Shares Role-playing (RPG)ShooterBoth games are first-person post-apocalyptic RPGs where you navigate faction politics and moral choices across a vast wasteland. Each features AI companions, audio logs that flesh out lore, and a personal revenge quest that entangles you in larger ideological conflicts. The core loop of scavenging, combat, and dialogue-driven problem-solving remains consistent, making Fallout 3 a natural predecessor to New Vegas' desert setting.
Games like Fallout 3 →
03Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games drop you into vast open worlds where dialogue trees and faction choices shape the story's outcome. Each features AI companions who follow you through first-person exploration, stealth gameplay, and branching quests. Skyrim shares New Vegas's sandbox freedom: ignore the main plot, pursue side stories, craft and gather resources, or roleplay however you want. The structure and pacing feel remarkably similar.
Games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim →
04Shares ShooterBoth games drop you into sprawling open worlds where you navigate competing factions and ideologies while pursuing personal survival. Like New Vegas, GTA V lets you shape outcomes through choice, switching between multiple characters with conflicting goals. The sandbox structure emphasizes exploration and side missions over linear progression, and both reward player agency across morally ambiguous storylines set in economically fractured landscapes.
Games like Grand Theft Auto V →
05Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games cast you as a revenge-driven protagonist navigating branching storylines shaped by your choices, with stealth and combat as equally viable approaches. Dishonored shares New Vegas's first-person perspective and emphasis on audio logs for world-building, while its artificial intelligence companions and faction-driven narrative echo the ideological complexity that defines the Mojave's competing powers.
Games like Dishonored →
06Shares ShooterBoth games blend first-person shooting with stealth, letting you approach combat encounters tactically rather than guns-blazing. New Vegas and Wolfenstein share a focus on alternate history and artificial intelligence, grounding their science fiction settings in recognizable worlds. Each game emphasizes player choice in how to handle threats, whether through direct combat or careful positioning, making combat feel like a puzzle to solve rather than scripted action.
Games like Wolfenstein: The New Order →
07Shares Role-playing (RPG)ShooterBoth games are first-person shooters with RPG depth where stealth and combat are viable approaches to missions. Each has branching storylines shaped by your choices and allegiances to competing factions, forcing you to question your beliefs. Deus Ex shares New Vegas' focus on artificial intelligence and conspiracy, wrapping its sci-fi setting in philosophical questions about power and control.
Games like Deus Ex →
08Shares Role-playing (RPG)ShooterBoth games center on assembling a team of AI companions with distinct personalities and recruiting allies whose loyalty depends on your choices. Each features branching dialogue trees that shape the story's outcome, and both blend shooter combat with RPG progression. Mass Effect 2 mirrors New Vegas' focus on faction politics and tough decisions, though it trades the Mojave's open desert for a linear mission structure across alien worlds.
Games like Mass Effect 2 →
09Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games send you into a post-apocalyptic wasteland as a lone wanderer caught between competing factions, using branching dialogue trees to shape your path through the world. Fallout 2 shares New Vegas's emphasis on stealth, survival, and moral choice within an open-ended structure, though it trades first-person shooting for turn-based tactical combat. A.I. companions and anarchist themes appear in both.
Games like Fallout 2 →
10Shares Role-playing (RPG)ShooterBoth Metro 2033 and Fallout: New Vegas pair first-person shooting with survival in post-apocalyptic wastelands where artificial intelligence companions guide you through hostile territory. Metro emphasizes linear progression through underground ruins and surface expeditions, while New Vegas offers open-world exploration, but both games reward stealth approaches and feature factions competing for control over humanity's future. Each demands resource management to survive.
Games like Metro 2033 →
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10 games similar to Fallout: New Vegas: Fallout 4, Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Grand Theft Auto V, Dishonored, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Deus Ex, Mass Effect 2.
Most of these games share Action, Stealth, Role-playing (RPG), Science fiction and Shooter with Fallout: New Vegas, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Fallout: New Vegas.
