It looks like fans are hankering for more post-nuclear action, as fans of the Amazon Prime series Fallout have found themselves flocking to check out the Fallout games.
According to SteamDB, it’s not just any one Fallout title- everything from Fallout 1 to MMO Fallout 76 is seeing a spike in players.
For example, Fallout New Vegas had a concurrent playerbase of over 20,000 users- more than 10 times the players at the same time last week.
Of course, part of this is also the brilliant move to have the games themselves on sale- right now the entire series is at least 75% off, with content-rich games like Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 3 being as low as RM7.49.
Guide To Buying Fallout Games
For those planning to get into the Fallout games, here’s a quick primer: Fallout 1 and 2 are point-and-click RPGs, while 3, New Vegas and 4 are first-person ones.
There’s no need to worry about playing them all in order either, since each game is its own self-contained story rather than direct sequels to each other.
It’s becoming clear that the age of the tie-in game is at an end- instead the pipeline is such that people are being pulled into games after seeing the media inspired by them.
Cyberpunk 2077 saw a similar surge of interest after the release of Netflix anime Edgerunners- with the game’s Phantom Liberty expansion even sneaking in easter eggs to the anime in the game’s UI.
