Fallout 76 saw a huge spike in players over the weekend, breaking its concurrent player count record on
Steam. At its peak, 39,455 fans were playing at once, and this only accounts for those on PC via Steam.
This increase in players unsurprisingly coincides with the premiere of the Fallout show on Prime Video, reigniting interest in
Bethesda's once-controversial MMO. It remains to be seen if these players stick around, but in any case, it demonstrates that the show is bringing fans over to the games, as we've seen with other video game adaptations.
According to
SteamDB, Fallout 76 was averaging a concurrent player count of a little under 10,000 before the show. This often crept into five figures as the show drew closer, but increased dramatically after the premiere. Even right now, early on a Monday, there are 18,186 players at the time of writing.
As we reported previously, the success of the show is also helping the single-player Fallout games. This has only improved further since we last covered the story, with 83,491 players picking up
Fallout 4 over the weekend, on top of 19,505 fans playing
New Vegas. The latter will probably climb even further too,
given the ending of Fallout's first season. Even the first Fallout game, often left out of playthroughs of the series, has picked up more than a couple of thousand players, a huge increase from before the show was released.