Upon completing the quests in the game, the player is rewarded with bottle caps from Nuka-Cola bottles (the franchise's main fictional currency), and experience points. Far Harbor 's main gameplay consists of quests and puzzle sections. The game can be played in first-person or third-person perspective in either case, the player controls the protagonist throughout their investigation on The Island, a landmass off the coast of Maine. In the expansion, the player character is recruited by a detective agency to investigate the disappearance of a young girl living in a remote area.
The game is set in the year 2287, in the aftermath of a nuclear war that destroys most of the United States. Far Harbor was released on for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One as downloadable content (DLC).
Fallout 4: Far Harbor is an expansion pack for the 2015 video game Fallout 4, developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.