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Seeing power armor in the
Fallout
series inspired many players to jump back into their own suits (and start stockpiling fusion cores). (credit: Amazon/MGM Studios)
Long-time
Fallout
fans are used to long waits between titles, and, depending on their preferences, inconsistent results. But when Amazon's
Fallout
series showed up on Prime and
absolutely nailed it
, it spurred a lot of players to crack open their libraries and commence some post-apocalyptic replaying. And maybe first-time playing, too.
Fallout 76
, the
online multiplayer title
that is the most recent full release, saw perhaps the biggest delta. The game hit its all-time peak of 43,887 simultaneous players on Wednesday, April 17,
according to SteamCharts
, roughly one week after the Amazon series' debut. For the year leading up to that peak,
Fallout 76
had hovered around 7,000-10,000 players through most of 2024, and then jumped after the series' debut. Of course, that number only counts PC players, and only those on Steam; the game, which launched simultaneously on consoles, and is
available on Microsoft's Game Pass
, likely has many more players.
SteamDB, another Steam stats tracker, suggested on X (formerly Twitter) that the
Fallout
game series as a whole had
more than doubled its concurrent player count by April 14
.