If you haven’t been watching, Fallout Season 2 is pretty great and has been enjoying a good deal of success. So much so that Season 3 is already well into the writing stage. New games are sadly still a ways off, however, which is why both veteran and new players are flocking to Fallout 4 and other entries to go post-apocalyptic.
That’s what SteamDB has been saying, at least. PC Gamer took a look at the data before and after Season 2 premiered back in December 2025. Fallout 4, which recently received an Anniversary Edition, seems to be the biggest winner, with its concurrent players count going from 20,000 on average to 40,000 as of last Sunday. Fallout 76
Fallout 3 has also doubled its concurrent players from a hundred-ish to around 200. For a single-player game released on 2008 that’s also available elsewhere and doesn’t have as many direct ties to the TV show as the other three we’ve mentioned, that’s not bad. Even free-to-play, mobile-oriented Fallout Shelter saw an increase in activity.
The New Vegas-oriented second season of Fallout, which is currently airing new episodes each week via Amazon’s Prime Video, takes Lucy, The Ghoul, Maximus, and many other characters to very familiar places, yet the key creatives behind the show have been smart enough to avoid the usual interconnected universe, franchise-building issues.
Needless to say, Microsoft-owned and Todd Howard-led Bethesda Game Studios has done a great job of shepherding the show alongside the creative team led by Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, Graham Wagner, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, making it not just the perfect gateway into the video game franchise, but also a respectable companion piece that’s defining the post-Fallout 4 timeline the fifth game will be acknowledging when it finally arrives. For now, we have more Fallout 76 content updates and the Switch 2 port of Fallout 4 to look forward to.