Summary
Fallout 76has just hit its all-time concurrent player peak on Steam. This impressive achievement was recorded nearly six years followingFallout 76’s polarizing release.
The renewed momentum that the game is currently enjoying appears to be a direct result of Amazon’sFalloutTV show, which had its Prime Video premiere on April 10.Every game in the serieshas been experiencing a popularity resurgence ever since.
Fallout 76 Steam Player Base Up 363% Since Amazon TV Show Debut
The newest entry in the franchise has so far been the biggest beneficiary of this trend, withFallout 76already achieving impressive engagement on Xboxwithin days of the show’s debut. The game has now managed to hit another major milestone, having recorded its highest-ever concurrent Steam player count of 39,455 on April 14, according to data compiled bySteamDB. That’s a 363% improvement compared to its player peak from four days earlier, just before the show hit Prime Video.
Tens of thousands of players flocked toFallout 76over the second weekend of April, ultimately improving the game’s player peak on the platform by almost 20%. The last and only time that the co-op RPG had more than 20,000 simultaneous players on Steam was in May 2020. Although it didn’t see too many spikes in the years that followed,Fallout 76still maintained a healthy player community, typically peaking at around 10,000 concurrent Steam players daily, all the way up to this latest resurgence.
The rest of theFalloutfranchise is also doing amazingly right now, PC player count-wise;Fallout 3andNew Vegascurrently have more players than they did since 2016, as doesFallout 4. The isometric entries in the series, ranging from the seminal 1997 original to the SRPG spin-offFallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, are also enjoying nine-year player count highs right now. How long this trend continues remains to be seen, butFallout 76certainly has the potential to maintain its current momentum for a while yet, not least because it is the only entry in the franchise that still receives regular updates that keep adding to its already massive volume of content.
Fallout 76 Is Currently Available at Its Lowest-Ever Price
This popularity boost has also ostensibly been amplified by thenewly launchedFalloutseries sale, which saw Bethesda discount its live-service shooter by a whopping 80%.Fallout 76is now consequently once again available at its lowest-ever Steam price of $7.99. PlayStation and Xbox gamers are also currently able to grab it for the same amount. The ongoingFalloutfranchise sale is set to conclude on April 19.
Fallout 76
WHERE TO PLAY
Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
