Fallout 76 Breaks 5th All-Time Player Record in 6 Days
Fallout 76 has hit yet another all-time player record on Steam. Nearly 52,000 Fallout 76 players were online at the same time on April 19, with the game consequently breaking its concurrent Steam player record for the fifth time since the turn of the month.
The live-service RPG has been blowing up since Amazon's Fallout TV show premiered on April 10. Its player count on Steam has more than tripled immediately following the Prime Video series' premiere, with its momentum still showing no signs of slowing down.
The game experienced yet another historic high on April 19, when its number of simultaneous Steam players reached 51,853. This is the fifth time that Fallout 76 has hit an all-time concurrent player peak on Valve's platform in the past six days. Its PC player base grew by over 31% since that initial peak. Last Monday, April 15, has so far been the only day this week on which the RPG failed to beat its concurrent Steam player record. That's according to the publicly available data scrapped by SteamDB.
Date
Concurrent Players
May 16, 2020
32,982
April 14, 2024
39,455
April 16, 2024
41,004
April 17, 2024
43,831
April 18, 2024
44,642
April 19, 2024
51,853
Steam is not the only platform on which the game is presently experiencing a resurgence; Fallout 76 has also been blowing up on Xbox consoles since mid-April, having hit its highest player engagement since 2022. Although the release of its TV show tie-in is widely accepted as the driving factor behind this popularity surge, it is ostensibly not the only thing feeding into the ongoing Fallout craze. Another move that likely helped amplify the game's current momentum arrived in the form of a recent week-long sale that saw Bethesda discount the RPG by 80%, matching its lowest-ever price of $7.99. The offer was available across all platforms, including the PlayStation Store.
Amazon didn't just help market the series with its critically acclaimed TV adaptation; the tech giant has also been gifting Fallout 76 codes to
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