https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-is-based-on-plans-for-fallout-4-multiplayer/ > Bethesda considered adding multiplayer to Fallout 4 but put the idea on hold to prioritize its singleplayer story, Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard explained in a new Noclip documentary. However, Bethesda eventually revisited Fallout 4's would-be multiplayer and turned it into Fallout 76, which we now know to be an online survival game. > "Fallout 76 is the multiplayer design from Fallout 4," Howard said. While developing Fallout 4, Bethesda wondered: "Hey, should we do multiplayer? 'Probably not.' What would it be? 'OK, it would be this.' Let's talk it through. 'OK, that's pretty awesome.'"