Bethesda is known for creating large, immersive games, and Fallout 4 is a prime example, offering players a huge number of quests and missions to complete.
The Commonwealth wasteland is full of things to keep you busy, from fighting off raider groups and finding lost technology to even rescuing a cat!
Now that the Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition is out, and with new installments in the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series still years away, it’s a great time to revisit the unique and strange world of Fallout 4.
To make your adventure in Fallout 4 a little easier, we’ve created a complete list of all the main quests and side quests available!
How many main quests are in Fallout 4?
There are 12 main quests in Fallout 4.
The game has a prologue and three main parts. Players can expect to spend roughly 27 hours finishing the story, based on estimates from HowLongToBeat.
If you’re like me and love RPGs, you know how easy it is to get sidetracked! There are always tons of side quests, weird and wonderful characters to meet, and cool places to explore. Honestly, if you want to see everything and get 100% completion, expect to spend a lot more time with the game than just rushing through the main story.
Full list of Fallout 4 main quests
Read on for the full list of Fallout 4’s main story quests.
Prologue
- War Never Changes
Act One
- Out of Time
- Jewel of the Commonwealth
- Unlikely Valentine
- Getting a Clue
- Reunions
Act Two
- Dangerous Minds
- The Glowing Sea
- Hunter/Hunted
- The Molecular Level
- Institutionalised
Act Three
Your choice at the end of the game regarding The Institute will determine whether you start the “Nuclear Option” or “Nuclear Family” questline.
Full list of Fallout 4 side missions
To finish everything in Fallout 4, like all the side quests, you’ll probably need about 200 hours of playtime.
The side quests are split into several different categories, so read on for a full breakdown.
Faction missions
Primary quests for The Minutemen:
- When Freedom Calls
- The First Step
- Taking Independence
- Old Guns
- Inside Job
- Form Ranks
- Defend the Castle
- The Nuclear Option
- With Our Powers Combined
- Out of the Fire
- Returning the Favour
- Sanctuary
- Troubled Waters
- The Sight
There are also a further 16 quests based around a radiant settlement.
Primary and side quests for The Brotherhood of Steel:
- Reveille
- Fire Support
- Call to Arms
- Semper Invicta
- Shadow of Steel
- Tour of Duty
- Show No Mercy
- From Within
- Outside the Wire
- Liberty Reprimed
- Blind Betrayal
- Tactical Thinking
- Spoils of War
- Ad Victorian
- The Nuclear Option
- A New Dawn
- A Loose End (side quest)
- Duty of Dishonour (side quest)
- The Lost Patrol (side quest)
There are also a further five quests based around a radiant location.
Primary and side quests for The Railroad:
- Road to Freedom
- Tradecraft
- Underground Undercover
- Precipice of War
- Rockets’ Red Glare
- The Nuclear Option
- Boston After Dark (side quest)
- Mercer Safehouse (side quest)
- Burning Cover (side quest)
- Butcher’s Bill (side quest)
- Butcher’s Bill 2 (side quest)
- Memory Interrupted (side quest)
- Operation Ticonderoga (side quest)
- To the Mattresses (side quest)
- Randolph Safehouse (side quest)
There are also a further seven quests based around a radiant location.
Primary and side quests for The Institute:
- Synth Retention
- The Battle of Bunker Hill
- Mankind Redefined
- Mass Fusion
- Pinned
- Powering Up
- End of the Line
- Airship Down
- Nuclear Family
- A House Divided (side quest)
- Building a Better Crop (side quest)
- Plugging a Leak (side quest)
There are also a further five quests based around a radiant location.
Non-faction side missions
- Banished from The Institute
- Cambridge Polymer Labs
- Confidence Man
- Curtain Call
- Dependency
- Diamond City Blues
- Emogene Takes a Lover
- Here Kitty, Here
- Here There Be Monsters
- Hole in the Wall
- Human Error
- In Sheep’s Clothing
- Kid in a Fridge
- Last Voyage of the USS Constitution
- Mystery Meat
- Order Up
- Out in Left Field
- Painting the Town
- Pickman’s Gift
- Public Knowledge
- Pull the Plug
- Short Stories
- Special Delivery
- Story of the Century
- The Big Dig
- The Devil’s Due
- The Disappearing Act
- The Gilded Grasshopper
- The Marowski Heist
- The Memory Den
- The Secret of Cabot House
- The Silver Shroud
- Trouble Brewin’
- Vault 75
- Vault 81
- Art Appreciation
- Atom Cats
- Botany Class
- The Combat Zone
- Detective Case Files
- Diamond City’s Most Wanted
- Fallen Hero
- Find the Treasures of Jamaica Plain
- Fly Fishing
- Giddyip ‘n Go
- Greet the Dog
- Gun Run
- Hazardous Material
- Help Defend
- Home Plate
- MacCready for Action
- Meet Ness at the Crash Site
- Message in a Bottle – Trapped for Days
- Message in a Bottle – Predator Becomes Prey
- Message in a Bottle – Not Going Well
- Message in a Bottle – Need a Hand
- Message in a Bottle – Difficult to Kill
- Message in a Bottle – X Marks the Spot
- Nuca Cola Needs
- Pool Cleaning
- Prep School
- Recruiting Hancock
- Galleria
- The Cleaner
- Traffic Jam
- Vault 81 Tour
- Virgil’s Cure
- A Pillar of the Community
- Bill Sutton
- Brother Against Brother
- Familar Faces
- Fertiliser Woman
- Holly
- Lucy Abernathy
- Maintenance Man
- Quality Assurance
- Supervisor Brown
- Supervisor Green
- Wedding Day
- Benign Intervention (tasked by companion Cait)
- Emergent Behaviour (tasked by companion Curie)
- Long Road Ahead (tasked by companion MacCready)
- Long Time Coming (tasked by companion Nick Valentine)
DLC/Expansion missions
Missions from the Automatron DLC:
- Mechanical Menace
- A New Threat
- Headhunting
- Restoring Order
- Rogue Robot (radiant quest)
Missions from the Far Harbor DLC:
- Far From Home
- Walk in the Park
- Where You Belong
- Best Left Forgotten
- The Way Life Should Be
- Cleansing the Land
- Reformation
- Close to Home
- Brain Dead
- Shipbreaker
- Condensers Down (radiant)
- Deadliest Catch (radiant)
- Super Mutants in the Fog (radiant)
- Trapper Attack (radiant)
- Acadian Ideals
- Data Recovery
- The Arrival
- The Price of Memory
- Hunting the Hunter
- Ablutions
- The Heretic
- Visions in the Fog
- What Atom Requires
- The Trial of Brother Devin
- Witch Hunt
- Blood Tide
- Hull Breach
- Hull Breach 2
- Hull Breach 3
- Living on the Edge
- Rite of Passage
- Safe Passage
- The Changing Tide
- The Great Hunt
- The Hold Out
- Turn Back the Fog
- Forbidden Knowledge
- Search and Destroy
Missions from Vault-Tec Workshop:
- Vault-Tec Calling
- Better Living Underground
- A Model Citizen
- Explore Vault 88
- Power to the People
- The Watering Hole
- Vision of the Future
- Lady Luck
- Overseer’s Most Wanted
Missions from Nuka-World:
- All Aboard
- Taken for a Ride
- An Ambitious Plan
- The Grand Tour
- A Magical Kingdom
- A World of Refreshment
- High Noon at the Gulch
- Safari Adventure
- Star Control
- Home Sweet Home
- Power Play
- Amoral Combat
- Cappy in a Haystack
- Open Season
- Precious Medals
- Trip to the Stars
There are also a further 13 radiant missions to complete.
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