The popularity of Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout series having an impact on the Fallout games hasn’t really been much of a secret. Creative director Jon Rush, for instance, had mentioned the show’s impact on player numbers in Fallout 76 all the way back in March 2025. With Season 2 of Fallout being well under way, the player numbers for the three single-player Bethesda-era Fallout titles have also seen upticks. As caught by PCGamer, the concurrent player figures for Fallout 4, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas have all been rising.
Fallout 3 might have seen the smallest rise, going from peaks of up almost 700 concurrent players up to now getting almost a thousand since the second season of the Fallout show. Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4 have been seeing much more drastic upticks in players. Where Fallout 4 would typically see around 22,000 concurrent players before December, has been hitting almost 33,000 players on a daily basis. Fallout: New Vegas, on the other hand, usually saw around 8,000 concurrent players, which has now gone all the way up to around 15,000 players since the show’s season two premiere.
While the single-player titles have been seeing more players, Fallout 76 isn’t being left behind either. The multiplayer game’s typical average of around 20,000 concurrent players has been rising since December, peaking at almost 30,000 players earlier this month. The popularity of the Amazon Prime show has likely played a major role in this rise in player figures, but the fact that its season two premiere coincided with Steam’s Winter Sale also likely helped in getting the games into the hands of more players.
Rush had spoken about players hopping on to these classics last year, noting that Bethesda plans to continue supporting players in the live-service Fallout 76. The subject had come up in light of the multiplayer title getting its Glow of the Ghoul update which allowed players to turn their characters into Ghouls.
Looking ahead, reports have indicated that Bethesda might be working on a remastered release of Fallout 3 in the same vein as The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, which will likely mean improved visuals and more polished gameplay. A recent report noted that the company still plans to release the game, but when it will make the announcement is still currently unknown.
As for what we might see in the future, Fallout director Todd Howard has said that Fallout 5 will take the events of the Amazon show into account for its story. “In short, yes. Fallout 5 will exist in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening. We are taking that into account,” he said.
Howard had also noted that Bethesda has been “working on a whole bunch of stuff” for the Fallout universe back in December. In his statement, he acknowledged fans asking for remasters of Fallout 3 or New Vegas, and asked these fans to wait until Bethesda is ready to make an announcement.
