As if there was ever any doubt, Bethesda director Todd Howard has once again confirmed Fallout 5 is coming… eventually.
Following widespread layoffs at Xbox earlier this month, Bethesda Game Studios has published a studio roadmap featuring its plans for the near and far-off future. Part of its letter included confirmation that a fifth mainline entry in its massively popular post-apocalyptic RPG series has officially entered pre-production, but what that means for Vault Dwellers everywhere remains to be seen.
What is Fallout 5 about? Where does it take place? How will it connect to other games in the franchise? How much will it cost? Will it come to PlayStation? And when is its release date? These questions (and many more) have filled fans’ minds since Fallout 4 launched in 2015. Do we really know the answer to any of them? No, but Howard has still spent the last decade promising that Bethesda has big plans in store for what’s next.
Fallout 5 Is Officially Announced and Being Worked On
Howard first spoke about Fallout 5 back in 2021, meaning one of the first official mentions of the game arrived six years after Fallout 4 and three years after multiplayer spinoff Fallout 76. At the time, he told IGN that there was a very surface-level plan for the series’ future.
“I don’t see… Look, Fallout’s really part of our DNA here,” he said at the time. “We’ve worked with other people from time to time – I can’t say what’s gonna happen. You know, we have a one-pager on Fallout 5, what we want to do.”
He added, “Again, if I could wave my hand and have [Fallout 5] out – you know, I’d like to find a way to accelerate what we do, but I can’t really say today or commit to anything, [like] what’s going to happen when.”
Todd Howard Says Fallout 5 Will Arrive After The Elder Scrolls 6
Players had long believed a fifth Fallout game would eventually arrive, but a statement from Howard in June 2022 made it clear the wait would be longer than what was expected by some of Bethesda’s most skeptical fans. He told IGN the plan was to see Fallout 5 arrive after The Elder Scrolls 6, which, at the time of this story’s publication in July 2026, still seems to be years from launch.
“Yes, 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,” he said at the time, still one year out from the launch of Starfield. “We have some other projects that we look at from time to time as well.”
The Fallout Show Crew Knows ‘All About’ Fallout 5
One thing keeping Fallout fans happy in-between installments is the Fallout show on Prime Video. Ahead of the premiere of Season 1 in 2024, executive producer Jonathan Nolan went as far as to tell Den of Geek that the crew “know all about Fallout 5” and that they’re “not telling anyone.”
It’s hard to say just how much of Fallout 5 had come together by this point, but Howard said he made sure the crew steered clear of any unwanted crossovers.
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