I've spent an unreasonable portion of my life wandering irradiated wastelands. I have shot geckos in the face outside Goodsprings, talked my way out of Legion death squads, and listened to Mr New Vegas whisper sweet nothings through a crackling radio while I hauled my butt across the Mojave. Fallout is not just a series I like. It is a Graceland I return to yearly. So when Fallout Season 2 rolled back into the cultural conversation and casually dropped New Vegas swagger, Shady Sands and old world icons like The Prydwen on a new generation, my first instinct is not nostalgia. It is logistics. How can I get back in, and how cheaply can I get there.
That is where Fallout 76 and its Burning Springs update come in. Yes, the game that once launched as a wonky multiplayer experiment has quietly and steadily become the most literal Fallout theme park Bethesda has ever built. And right now, thanks to frequent discounts, it is also one of the cheapest tickets into the Wasteland you can buy if you long for a companion piece to the show.
Current Fallout 76 Prices
PlayStation
- Fallout 76 (physical) -
$54.95$23 - Fallout 76: Burning Springs Starter Bundle (Digital) - $11.95
Xbox
- Fallout 76 (physical) -
$54,95$15.99 - Fallout 76: Burning Springs Starter Bundle (Digital) - $11.95
PC
- Fallout 76 (digital) - $54.95
- Fallout 76: Burning Springs Starter Bundle (Digital) - $11.95
Seeing the Sights in Season 2 of the TV Series
Burning Springs is Fallout 76 leaning hard into the series' greatest hits. If Season 2 of the TV show sent you scrambling back to New Vegas footage on YouTube, this '76 update is packed with locations that feel like echoes rather than copies. Familiar shapes, familiar sins, new disasters layered on top.
Take Dino Peaks Mini Golf. Anyone who spent time in Novac knows exactly why giant dinosaurs belong in Fallout. They are ridiculous, they are cheerful, and they are always standing in places where something terrible happened. Dino Peaks is a pre war roadside attraction turned Deathclaw buffet, complete with oversized reptiles that immediately trigger Dinky the T Rex memories. Basically, this is the kind of place Fallout does best. A joke you'll smirk at until something with claws charges you from behind a souvenir stand.
The Chop Shop flips another Fallout icon on its head. Red Rocket stations were once safe havens. Here, it is a raider outpost under Rust Raider control, complete with a diner basement full of bad decisions. Fallout has always loved corrupting its own symbols, and this is a particularly nasty example.
Then there is the Rust Kingdom, which feels like Fallout raider culture distilled into its purest form. Fallout has always loved its gangs. From the Fiends to the Great Khans to every leather clad maniac who thinks spikes are a personality, raiders are the franchise at its most honest. The Rust Kingdom is an industrial hellscape ruled by the Rust King and his Might makes right philosophy. Junkyards, chemical tanks, Deathclaw pens and a domed arena sit at its heart. This is not subtle environmental storytelling. This is Fallout shouting at you with a rusted megaphone and daring you to survive.
Athens is the other side of the coin. A former college town now reduced to a ghost filled husk, it is Fallout doing quiet horror. Football posters peeling off walls. University halls filled with radroaches and ghouls. It taps into the same unease that made places like Vault 22 in New Vegas unforgettable. You're not meant to feel powerful here. You are meant to feel watched and on the edge of continence.
Highway Town serves as Burning Springs social hub, and it understands Fallout town design better than most. Built on the remains of a collapsed highway, it echoes Diamond City and the uneasy neutrality of every trading post worth visiting. Clean water buys peace. Everyone knows the rules. Break them and things get loud. The Last Resort bar anchors the place, with bounty hunting contracts and familiar Fallout busywork that always somehow turns into a firefight.
The Super Duper Mart needs no introduction. If you have played Fallout 3 or Fallout 4, you have looted one of these sad temples to consumerism. Seeing it again in Burning Springs is like meeting an old enemy. Same aisles, same broken promises, same feeling that something is going to jump you near the freezers.
The best part is that Fallout 76 is frequently cheap. Between regular sales, Xbox Game Pass, and PlayStation Plus Extra, it often costs less than a pub lunch to jump back into the Wasteland. For a series that taught us the value of scavenging, that feels appropriate.
Better yet, Fallout Season 2 reminds the world why this universe matters. Fallout 76: Burning Springs lets you step into something adjacent to that feeling right now. War never changes, but the price of admission certainly does.
Adam Mathew is a passionate connoisseur, a lifelong game critic, and an Aussie deals wrangler who genuinely wants to hook you up with stuff that's worth playing (but also cheap). He plays practically everything, sometimes on YouTube.