{"id":1452679,"date":"2026-01-06T21:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/QZhEwMhr7gdL6VR8yMBbef"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:12:26","slug":"fallout-season-2-has-doubled-the-number-of-people-playing-the-fallout-games-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/fallout-season-2-has-doubled-the-number-of-people-playing-the-fallout-games-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout Season 2 has doubled the number of people playing the Fallout games on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s not a huge surprise because we saw this happen in 2024<\/a>, but Prime Video’s Fallout series<\/a> has once again led to a huge uptick in people playing the Fallout games on Steam. Fallout 4, Fallout: New Vegas, and even Fallout 3 and the original Fallouts have essentially doubled their daily concurrent players on Steam since Fallout Season 2 started airing on Prime Video in December.<\/p>\n

Via SteamDB<\/a>, we can see that in the weeks leading up to the show’s premiere in mid-December, Fallout 4 was typically averaging about 20,000 concurrent players, but as of Sunday that count had risen to over 40,000. Likewise, Fallout: New Vegas was pulling in roughly 8,000 concurrents a day, and that rose to nearly 20,000 last weekend.<\/p>\n

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Even Fallout 3, which was typically attracting a mere hundred or so concurrent players on Steam on an average day, has risen to close to 200\u2014not exactly a towering number, but still about double what it was before Fallout Season 2 started. Fallout 76 got a bump too, up to about 30k from the usual 10-20k average, and the original Fallout saw an influx of players as well (I was one of them), climbing to over 800 players from a typical showing of a few hundred.<\/p>\n

The Steam Winter Sale is probably partly responsible for Fallout’s player gains in December, but I think it’s mostly down to the show. For example, RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Skyrim, which also had steep discounts in the Winter Sale, all saw an increase in Steam concurrent player count in December, but not nearly as drastic a rise.<\/p>\n

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