Even the first Fallout game is receiving an influx of players on Steam

polygon.com:

As expected following the launch of the highly-anticipated Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime, there has been an uptick of people playing the Fallout games. However, people aren’t just going for the newest game in the series. Fallout 76. Fallout 4, which released in 2015, and even the very first Fallout have seen relatively huge jumps in player count on Steam.

Fallout 1, in particular, peaked at 2,352 players on Steam over the weekend. That’s a pittance compared to the top games on Steam, but that is a whopping 553.3% jump in concurrent players over the past month, according to SteamDB. Fallout 3 — Game of the Year Edition is seeing a similar jump, with around 6,700 concurrent players hopping in over the weekend (a 415.4% increase over the past 30 days). Steam Charts also confirms the success of both, adding that even the base Fallout 3 is seeing a big jump. Then there’s Fallout: New Vegas, which was developed by Obsidian Entertainment rather than Bethesda. While I wouldn’t recommend playing it unless you download a ton of mods, people are still checking it out, with a peak of over 19,000 players in the days following the show’s release.

Fallout 76, meanwhile, reached its all-time peak on Steam over the weekend, with over 39,000 concurrent players. It’s unclear what the numbers look like on other platforms, but Bethesda acknowledged on X that there have been a lot of new players to the game.

It's incredible to see all the new players coming to Fallout.

Welcome! We're happy to have you join the best community there is. pic.twitter.com/JNRQBIUQoM

The influx of players to the online multiplayer role-playing game isn’t too surprising when you consider that Bethesda made Fallout 76 free to play across platforms, from April 11-18. It was also free for Amazon Prime subscribers this month. And if you wanted to live out your Vault 33 fantasy in-game, there were some TV show cosmetics to boot.

However, the biggest success among the franchise goes to Fallout 4, which peaked