The TV show brings new players to basically the entire franchise
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As expected after the release of the highly anticipated Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime, there has been a surge in people playing the Fallout games. But people don't just go for the newest game in the series. Fallout 76. Fallout 4, which was released in 2015, and even the very first Fallout have seen relatively large jumps in the number of players on Steam.
Fallout 1, in particular, peaked at 2,352 players on Steam over the weekend. That's a pittance compared to the top games on Steam, but it's a huge jump of 553.3% in concurrent players over the past month, according to SteamDB. Fallout 3 – Game of the Year Edition sees a similar jump, with around 6,700 concurrent players jumping in over the weekend (up 415.4% over the last 30 days). Steam Charts also confirms the success of both, adding that even the base Fallout 3 is seeing a big jump. Then there's Fallout: New Vegas, which was developed by Obsidian Entertainment rather than Bethesda. While I wouldn't recommend playing it unless you download tons of mods, people are still watching it, with a peak of over 19,000 players in the days after the show's release.
