Fallout 76 hits an all-time player count record on Steam following the Fallout TV series on Amazon, and the other games are spiking too
People like the Fallout TV series on Amazon an awful lot—we called it "the best Fallout since New Vegas"—and that seems to be having quite the spillover effect for the Fallout videogames. All of the games in the long-running post-nuclear RPG series have seen a significant jump in players, and they've also muscled their way into Steam's top-selling games chart.
SteamDB noted on Twitter (via Eurogamer) that «Fallout has more than doubled its concurrent players on Steam with the release of the Fallout TV series.»
Fallout 4 is the biggest beneficiary, spiking up to more than 83,000 concurrent players over the weekend, compared to a high of 24,000 the weekend before, a few days ahead of Amazon's Fallout launch. Fallout 76 arguably set an even more impressive mark by surpassing 39,000 concurrent players on the weekend following the TV series release, a new all-time high on Steam for the four-year-old game. Fallout 3—my favorite of the Bethesda Fallouts, and I make no apologies for it—also saw a huge bounce, going from roughly 1,000 concurrents on April 7 to 6,700 a week later.
Some of that Fallout 76 surge is no doubt helped by the "free play event" that started last week and runs until April 18, but I wouldn't credit that for all of it: It's had free weeks in the past and never put up numbers like this. (It does, however, make this a very good time to give Fallout 76 a shot.)
The raw numbers aren't quite so big, but even the original games have gone way up: Fallout broke 2,300 concurrent players immediately following the Amazon series, up from fewer than 300 the weekend before, while Fallout 2 surpassed 1,000, compared to a previous weekend high of 350.
Industry analyst Mat Piscatella shared some of Circana's Fallout user numbers on Twitter, nicely illustrating the uptick:
There's also a whole lotta Fallout among the top sellers on Steam right now: Fallout 76 is in third spot, Fallout 4 is in fourth, Fallout 4 Game of the Year Edition holds 10th place, and New Vegas is
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