Welcome to the Fallout 4 Romance guide that helps you find the total of 12 Romance options in the PS4, Xbox One & PC action-RPG game.
Opening up all 11 Romance options and flirt with your companions will help unlock the following Achievement / Trophy:
* “Lovable” (20 Gamerscore / Bronze Trophy) — Reach Maximum Relationship Level with a Companion.
* Bonus: If a companion likes you enough to hit Maximum Relationship Level they’ll give you their companion perk as long as they are following you, no matter the distance between you.
The Timeline for all these in-game Romance options are listed below.
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Fallout 4 Romance
In order to begin a Romance with a companion, you’ll have to raise your Relationship Level with said companion to the Maximum, at which point you’ll unlock the options to “Flirt” & “Romance” with the companion in a dialog tree during your next conversation. – The first time you achieve this, you’ll unlock the “Loveable” achievement / trophy.
Where to find all companions?: All 13 companions can be unlocked using our “Fallout 4 Companions Locations Guide“.
Which companions can be Romanced?: Only 7 of the 13 companions can be romanced, some for obvious reasons, I’m not even going to bother explaining that one. All Human companions except Deacon can be romanced. In addition, the Sole Survivor can also pursue a romance with a Synth and the Ghoul Hancock. — You can romance all companions at the same time, no one seems to mind! *shock* — Note that some companions are romance-able, regardless of your character’s gender. *wink wink*
Available for Romance are:
– Cait (Human female)
– Curie (Robot female)
– John Hancock (Ghoul male)
– Robert MacCready (Human male)
– Paladin Danse (Human male)
– Piper Wright (Human female)
– Preston Garvey (Human male)
What influences your companion relationship: The chances of Romance can be improved if the companions like the Sole Survivor a lot, and increases their Relationship Level closer to the max, whatever species they are (it also increases the commands you can give them). This is influenced by how the Survivor approaches the quests and talks to other people.
As listed for each character in the overview below, you’ll want companions to see you as favorable as possible (go for their Likes and avoid their Dislikes listed below). For example: Protecting and being nice to Ghouls is something that will increase relationship status with Hancock.
Additionally, actions you perform in your settlement that has multiple companions stored in it can affect all companions at once. For example: Giving Mama Murphy drugs for telling you your future will be disliked by all companions in the settlement you’re in.
How to get all Romances in Fallout 4? The in-game actions for the Romance to happen are described in these detailed video guides.
The Romance options are listed in the videos in the order that they appear in chronological order.
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Preston Garvey Romance
How to reach Maximum Relationship Level with Preston Garvey to start your Romance.
Likes it when you:
• Give items away for Miscellaneous quests
• Modify weapons
• Make generous dialogue choices
• Make peaceful dialogue choices
• Make sarcastic dialogue choices
Dislikes it when you:
• Eat humanoid flesh
• Make selfish dialogue choices
• Murder non-hostiles
• Become addicted to chems
• Steal
• Pickpocket
• Picked owned locks
• Make violent dialogue choices
Piper Wright Romance
How to reach Maximum Relationship Level with Piper Wright to start your Romance.
Likes it when you:
• Make generous dialogue choices
• Give items away for Miscellaneous quests
• Pick locks in dungeons
• Make sarcastic dialogue choices
Dislikes it when you:
• Steal
• Pickpocket
• Make selfish dialogue choices
• Make violent dialogue choices
• Pick owned locks in towns
• Kill non-hostiles
• Eat humanoid flesh
Curie Romance
How to reach Maximum Relationship Level with Curie to start your Romance.
[Story-related Spoiler Warning for this video guide!]
Likes it when you:
• Heal Dogmeat
• Give items away for Miscellaneous quests
Dislikes it when you:
• Become addicted to chems
• Kill non-hostiles
• Steal
• Pickpocket
Paladin Danse Romance
How to reach Maximum Relationship Level with Paladin Danse to start your Romance.
[Story-related Spoiler Warning for this video guide!]
Likes it when you:
• Make nice dialogue choices
• Make violent dialogue choices
• Enter Power Armor
• Enter a Vertibird
• Modify armour
• Modify weapons
Dislikes it when you:
• Make mean dialogue choices
• Make violent dialogue choices
• Use chems
• Eat humanoid flesh
• Kill non-hostiles
• Steal
• Pickpocket
• Pick owned locks
Cait Romance
How to reach Maximum Relationship Level with Cait to start your Romance.
Likes it when you:
• Drink alcohol
• Steal
• Pick locks
• Pick owned locks
• Walk around naked
Dislikes it when you:
• Use chems
• Become addicted to chems
• Eat humanoid flesh
• Kill non-hostiles
• Give items away for Miscellaneous quests
John Hancock Romance
How to reach Maximum Relationship Level with John Hancock to start your Romance.
1. First conversation unlocked after raising Hancock’s approval.
2. Second conversation with flirt option, unlocked after raising Hancock’s approval.
3. Committing to a romantic relationship with Hancock.
4. Third and final conversation, unlocked after maxing out Hancock’s approval. Sole Survivor can commit to a romantic relationship with Hancock here.
Likes it when you:
• Make generous dialogue choices
• Give items away for Miscellaneous quests
• Make peaceful dialogue choices
• Use chems
• Make violent dialogue choices
Dislikes it when you:
• Make mean dialogue choices
• Make selfish dialogue choices
• Steal
• Kill non-hostiles
• Walk around naked
Robert MacCready Romance
How to reach Maximum Relationship Level with Robert MacCready to start your Romance.
Likes it when you:
• Steal
• Pick locks
• Make a successful speech
Dislikes it when you:
• Become addicted to chems
• Kill non-hostiles
• Give items away for Miscellaneous quests
Non-Companion Romances
Additionally: You can have one-night “romances” with hookers and others like for example this singer called Magnolia in Boston’s The Third Rail bar. Just keep talking about their main interest to steer the conversation to flirting & eventually go on a date with her.
Tip: Maximize your success by having Charisma 10, with a Beer and clean black suit for max Charisma.
Fun fact: You can get the human school teacher and the robot Miss Edna to get married if you encourage her to embrace love during your chats with her.
There you go! All Romances in Fallout 4 are yours to unlock! 🙂
Huge thanks to IGN, Eurogamer, Matty, Fluffy Dana, Ducky, Brenna & Naughtygaming for the guide videos and tips.
Please comment if you have any additional Fallout 4 Romance location tips of your own, we’ll give you credit for it. – Thanks for visiting!