If you’re fresh to these games, we recommend trying Fallout 4 first. It’s the most recent single-player entry in the series, while 2018’s Fallout 76 is an online multiplayer title.

According to SteamDB, Fallout 4 had an impressive 187,468 concurrent players on Steam, the highest peak since late 2015. Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100.

Where Fallout 4 was sitting around 21,000 players on April 11, 2024 before the debut of the series, it reached a peak of 164,190 on April 21 after the series had aired.

As highlighted on SteamDB, Fallout 76 reached an all-time concurrent player peak of 73,368 on Sunday, April 21. For comparison, the previous Sunday saw 39,455 people playing the title.

Fallout 76 achieved a new peak concurrent player count over the weekend with 39,455 players, while Fallout 4 saw a boost to 83,491 concurrent players and Fallout: New Vegas reached a peak of ...

That isn’t even the most popular Fallout game of the moment either. According to SteamDb, Fallout 4 is. The game has crept into the top 10 of all PC games played on Steam, and jumped from ...