In recent years, we've seen a boom in video game adaptations to film and television. These projects have already shown that, beyond generating millions at the box office or reaching good audience levels, they can be a great commercial engine for their franchises. Now, fallout rebounded on Steam after the premiere of its live-action series.
For those who didn't know, the show based on the franchise Bethesda debuted on April 10 in Prime Video from Amazon. Fortunately, the reception was very positive and both specialized critics and fans of the original material gave it approval. He currently has an approval rating of 93% in Tomatoes.
Everything indicates that the adaptation of fallout It is also a ratings success and a Season 2 looks very possible. While waiting for more information about its commercial performance, it has already managed to reactivate interest in the franchise on Steam.
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Fallout games increase in popularity on Steam after the premiere of the live-action series
In the last week, some games in the series experienced a considerable rise in popularity. First of all, Fallout 76 It is experiencing its best moment since its original release. Its peak in the last 24 hours is 31,163 concurrent userswhich is very close to the historical record of 32,982 simultaneous players which he achieved in 2018.
Fallout 4 is not far behind either, as it brought together 72,845 concurrent users during the weekend; To contextualize, their usual average is 18,000 and 25,000 people active per day. If we look at the SteamDB graph, we will see that the peak of popularity coincides with the premiere of the Prime Video series.
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition follows the same line and achieved a peak of 4753 connected playersthe best figure since 2015. The acclaimed Fallout: New Vegas continues with the positive streak and brought together 13,648 peoplea significant increase if we consider that the peak of the previous 30 days is 6,627 concurrent users.
In addition to fans returning to explore the wasteland once again, many new players were encouraged to give these titles a try. We say this because Fallout 76, Fallout 4, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas appear on the list of best selling video games of the platform Valve.
Now, what is the reason for the surge in popularity? In addition to the premiere of the acclaimed series starring Ella Purnellthere are currently special offers on Steam and other platforms.
But tell us, did you visit any of the franchise titles again after the television show premiered? Did you dare to try these games for the first time? Let us read you in the comments.
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