The Best Fallout Game Was Created by Todd Howard With Just Over 100 People

The Fallout video game series has successfully established itself as one of the best RPG video game series of all time. The series started with 1997’s Fallout, which was developed by Black Isle Studios, which was a division of Interplay Entertainment. Black Isle Studios developed the first two main entries, then the main series was carried forward by Bethesda Game Studios.

Bethesda created Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, that are undoubtedly two games that popularised the franchise among a wider audience. Many fans will agree that Fallout 4 is the best game of the franchise, but what makes it even more special is the fact that it was created with a relatively small team.

Fallout 4 was created with just over 100 people

Fallout 4‘s immersive setting, exceptional storytelling, and engaging combat are one of the few reasons behind the game’s success but it is hard to believe that a team of just over 100 people managed to create a game like this. On top of countless nominations, the game has received Game of the Year awards at the 19th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards and the 12th British Academy Games Awards.

In 2015, Todd Howard, the director and executive producer of Bethesda Game Studios, gave Tech Insider a phone interview and revealed that Fallout 4 was created by the same team that worked on Fallout 3,

It actually started right after ‘Fallout 3’ – Istvan Pely, the lead artist on ‘Fallout 3,’ he rolled right off of the DLC into ‘Fallout 4.’ The first thing he built was the power armor.

Bethesda was working on two games simultaneously in the early 2010s: Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Even today, Bethesda is working on the next installments of Fallout and The Elder Scrolls franchise at the same time. However, back then, it had a much smaller team.

What’s next for the Fallout video game series?

Fallout 4 was the last entry in the main series and it has been a decade since the release of a Fallout game. Instead of a game, Howard gave fans the same Fallout experience, just in the form of a TV series, which was released in 2024. The series was well-received by the fans. However, a game is an entirely different experience.

During his 2022 interview with IGN, Howard did give fans an update on the next Fallout game, but unfortunately, it wasn’t an exciting update. He said,

Elder Scrolls 6 is in pre-production and, you know, we’re going to be doing Fallout 5 after that, so our slate’s pretty full going forward for a while. We have some other projects that we look at from time to time as well.

Various news outlets have claimed that the next Elder Scrolls game will be released sometime during or after 2026, which means that Bethesda will not start working on the next Fallout game at least until 2026. If Elder Scrolls 6 gets delayed, it means that Fallout 5 will also get delayed, so fans should mentally prepare themselves that the game is still half a decade away.