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Bethesda has announced thatFallout 76players will be able to explore Appalachia as ghouls in 2025, while also detailing the game’s upcoming Skyline Valley expansion. The Skyline Valley trailer forFallout 76, which aired during the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, promises fans a slew of brand-new content, including new areas to explore, fresh events, additional weapons, and more.
Released in 2018,Fallout 76is the first multiplayer game in theFalloutfranchise, as well as the first of theFalloutfranchise to feature online gameplay.Fallout 76players emerge from Vault 76 into the devastation of a post-nuclear-war West Virginia. They must explore what’s left of the world around them, gathering resources and building bases while piecing together the history of the area and the stories around its inevitable collapse.
In a trailer aired as part of the2024 Xbox Games Showcase, Bethesda announced thatFallout 76players will be able to travel through post-apocalyptic West Virginia as ghouls beginning in early 2025. Much sooner than that, however, is theFallout 76Skyline Valley expansion, coming to players on June 17, 2025. Considered to be the first major expansion to the Appalachian map ofFallout 76, the trailer introduces fans to the new area of Skyline Valley and its mysterious Vault 63. This information, delivered in theFalloutfranchise’s typical retro style, makes Vault 63 sound particularly ominous.
Fallout 76 Will Finally Let You Play as a Ghoul
While not much is known about Vault 63, the gameplay footage from theFallout 76Skyline Valley trailerfocuses heavily on ghouls, perhaps hinting at the possibility that theFallout 76Skyline Valley expansion centers around an entire group of vault dwellers who met this unfortunate, irradiated fate. In the Skyline Valley expansion, players will be able to travel further south into Appalachia than they have previously been able to, including venturing into Shenandoah National Park, all in search of the location of Vault 63.
Due to the popularity of theFalloutAmazon Prime Video seriesand fan-favorite character The Ghoul, as played by Walton Goggins, it’s no surprise that Bethesda wants to further capitalize on the show’s success. TheFalloutAmazon Prime Video series has led many new fans who were unfamiliar with the video games to seek out further apocalyptic content inFallout 76and the franchise’s other games. With The Ghoul being a particularly popular character, this upcoming addition is well-timed. Whether future Fallout games continue to let gamers control Ghouls remains to be seen, but given how long gamers have requested this feature, it is easy to imagine it proving popular once it is added toFallout 76.
Players can start exploring the new locations and features available in theFallout 76Skyline Valley expansionupon its release on Jun 13, 2025.Fallout 76fans looking to channel their inner ghoul will have to wait until early 2025.
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Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
