Fallout 4 And 76 See Surge In Players Following TV Show Release

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Now that the Fallout TV show is here, and fans of the series are unsurprisingly ripping each other to bits over it, uranium fever is at an all-time high. It's been over 6 years since we last got a new Fallout game - the less said about Fallout 76's reception at the time the better - but the appetitie for a new title has never been more clear, as several Fallout games have experienced a massive spike in players ever since the show's release.

Being the two titles that are the most readily available on multiple platforms, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 have benefited the most from the Fallout TV show's recent release, and are experiencing Steam peak player counts that Bethesda hasn't seen in years. We'll start with Fallout 4, arguably the title that's gained the most attention over the past couple of days, which recently reached a peak player count of 35,364 according to Steam DB.

That's a pretty huge chunk of players, but it's more impressive when you realize that this is the highest amount of players that Fallout 4 has seen at one time in almost six years. You have to go all the way back to October 2018 to see Fallout 4 exceed that number of players, having managed a peak player count of 36,543 thanks to Bethesda making the game free to play for a weekend.

Fallout 76 has also seen a pretty big rise in players over the past couple of days. At the time of writing, Fallout 76 currently has a peak player count of 17,687 on Steam, and you have to go back to October 2022 to find a higher peak player count. In fact, Fallout 76's current peak player count is the second highest it's ever been since the game launched, and while the numbers may not be as big as Fallout 4's, that's arguably more impressive.

Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 3 have also seen pretty healthy spikes in players on Steam, as well as the original Fallout games and even Fallout Shelter. You know that your TV show adaptation of a game franchise is successful when pretty much every Fallout game ever