Most Popular Elder Scrolls and Fallout Games by Peak Daily Steam Users (2010-2020 Timeline)
The popularity of Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, as measured by peak concurrent Steam players each day. I kept original Skyrim (Legendary Edition) and Skyrim: Special Edition separate on purpose to make for a more interesting contest. Of course, most of these games will have had many additional players on consoles or on other platforms, so take the numbers with a pinch of salt.
The info might not be completely perfect, for example around DLC release dates, but I did my best. Numbers displayed will sometimes freeze in place pre-2015 - this is because for some less played games, player count was only captured once every week or two at that time.
Finally, bear in mind the numbers are a snapshot of player count at the peak time that particular day. That means there were even more players online at other times on any given day.
Enjoy!
Total War edition: https://youtu.be/XTJShOkINkw
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Start (2010)
0:10 Fallout: New Vegas
0:35 Skyrim
2:33 Elder Scrolls Online (Steam Release)
3:24 Fallout 4
4:11 Skyrim: Special Edition
4:31 Fallout Shelter (Steam Release)
4:39 The Elder Scrolls: Legends (Steam Release)
5:05 Fallout 4 VR
5:19 Skyrim VR
6:59 Fallout 76: Wastelanders (Steam Release)
"Steam Release" indicates the game was added to Steam sometime after its original release date.
I know people are going to dunk on Fallout 3 but it's worth mentioning that the Steam version of that game doesn't play well with Windows 10.
CREDITS
Music
Skyrim soundtrack by Jeremy Soule ("Dragonborn" and "Watch the Skies) and Fallout 4 soundtrack by Inon Zur ("Dominant Species").
Steam daily user data from SteamDB (https://steamdb.info/). Data visualisation by me using Flourish (https://flourish.studio/).
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