Fallout Shelter

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6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 218 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 103 out of 218
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  1. NeonixTV
    Apr 3, 2017
    10
    Nice game for hardcore Fallout players!!!! So i recommend to try this game and its free!!!!!!
    9/10 beacase bad graphic and bugs!!!!! And Game is pay2win!!!
  2. ZHE5TJ
    Apr 29, 2017
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. это моя объективная оценка, пусть и после 20 часов игра начинает надоедать, и нет синхронизации, но по началу сильно затягивает!!! Боевая систему бы улучшить и супер… Expand
  3. regustar
    Aug 8, 2020
    10
    К игре нет вопросов, весело провел в ней время и считаю, что даже она лучше, чем F76!
  4. Krakonian
    Feb 22, 2022
    9
    This game is addcitive, I love this kind of games. The bad thing is that they don't update it on PC and it reaches a point where there isn't much to do anymore, I would like them to add more things to it on PC but I don't think it will happen. Still being a good game.
  5. Voron520
    Sep 23, 2016
    8
    Неплохая игра, в стиле анимации с Vault-Boy. Есть несколько недочётов, но они несущественны. Моя оценка - 8/10.
  6. FOCaesar
    Mar 31, 2017
    8
    Good mobile game. not bad PC game. simple! It is good to spend time. Good for fallout fan-boys and Those who like games like 'this war of mine' 8/10 lol
  7. MiranDaniel
    Nov 22, 2019
    8
    Great game, really repetitive but still really fun, the only problem is that you cant play the same save on mobile.
  8. JJ2FAS4U
    Jan 12, 2022
    8
    Atmosphere: 8
    Enjoyment: 9
    Gameplay: 8
    Graphics: 8
    Music: 8
    Story: 7
    Total: 8.00
  9. DreamDays
    Jun 14, 2022
    8
    Its actually fun to spend time in this colony-management game, its kinda like mobile game but i had a lot of fun playing this game. (F2P)
  10. r0l0
    Feb 25, 2023
    8
    Not a bad game for what it is, fun just to go in and collect some things and get out of the game, obviously its not a triple a like fallout is, but very entertaining game for the phone and to chill a little bit,if you want story this game its not for you,if you are a completionist its a fun challenge to achieve.
  11. ToeInMyJam
    Apr 15, 2017
    7
    A big fan of the Fallout franchise, so I may be approaching this from a slightly biased perspective. With that said, this is a quirky addition that is both (highly) addictive and engaging if you're into micromanagement. Some have (quite rightly) mentioned that it is f2p with the option for micro transactions... but there should be a stress on the term 'option', it is not a requirement forA big fan of the Fallout franchise, so I may be approaching this from a slightly biased perspective. With that said, this is a quirky addition that is both (highly) addictive and engaging if you're into micromanagement. Some have (quite rightly) mentioned that it is f2p with the option for micro transactions... but there should be a stress on the term 'option', it is not a requirement for full game play, it will just take longer to get your vault running at optimum.… Expand
  12. whoischarlotte
    Jun 26, 2018
    7
    A pretty nice little free-to-play simulation game, don't really get why they've put it on so many platforms now but hey it's free.
  13. PTFPetrosF
    Apr 4, 2018
    7
    it needs a lot of time and play every day , it is kind of boring after a while, but you should try it
  14. Pardoow
    Sep 8, 2019
    7
    Probably the best way to enjoy this game is playing on your phone, but bethesda’s obsession with releasing one game in every imaginable platform is just hilarious. Fun game overall, but feels like a P2W experience
  15. GoodBinary
    Nov 11, 2019
    7
    i honestly don't care what anyone thinks of this game, i absolutely love it. and even with it's big shortcoming of not being able to speed it up like The Sims (due to it's mobile gaming style).
    i've played it with touch and controller support, and it's a blast every way you can get a hold of this game.
    i wish there were move games like this.
  16. Gorbunov2004
    May 12, 2021
    7
    Мобильная игра по Fallout это конечно прикольно! Но в этой игре после 100 жителей делать ничего хотя и до этого момента бывает скучно. На ваше убежище могут напасть: рейдеры, гули и когти смерти. В игре много разного оружия и костюмов которые можно и создавать самому! Задания на пустоши не интересные и все они однообразные сходи убей и вернись всё.Мобильная игра по Fallout это конечно прикольно! Но в этой игре после 100 жителей делать ничего хотя и до этого момента бывает скучно. На ваше убежище могут напасть: рейдеры, гули и когти смерти. В игре много разного оружия и костюмов которые можно и создавать самому! Задания на пустоши не интересные и все они однообразные сходи убей и вернись всё.
  17. Bioreactor1987
    Oct 19, 2021
    7
    Удовольствие доставляет, если заняться нечем. Особенно на работе... =)
  18. ErixKing
    Nov 15, 2022
    7
    Juego de gestion bastante basico, recomendado si quieres comenzar a jugar esta clase de juegos. Lo malo a mi gusto es que es muy repetitivo aveces, por lo demas esta bien para ser F2P
  19. Bulba2555
    Jul 19, 2023
    7
    Да нормально, че вы гоните. Не понимаю вас. Конечно не идеально, но на 7 пойдет.
  20. MeTheNinja
    Dec 2, 2017
    6
    I really enjoyed the game...for the first few hours. After that, it gets pretty repetitive, and I couldn't get back into it after my first few sittings. This game is free, so I'd only recommend it if you're really bored and have never played it.
  21. Karoli
    Oct 3, 2018
    6
    Fun to pass the time, while you are waiting for something to download or something like that. Get repetitive after a while. It has MOBILE written all over it.
  22. ScryerJrothes
    Mar 11, 2019
    6
    Decent time waster, but it's very much centered around the cash shop. You CAN get through without buying anything, but it'll take much longer and you're more likely to have unhappy dwellers.
  23. Drudik
    May 30, 2019
    6
    An interesting city-building game that has some associations with fallout due to the Vaults and Wasteland. To be honest it's entertaining for the first few days or weeks, depends on your way of upgrading the vault. Right after you become well-developed your only function will be sending and accepting your troops from and to Wasteland for missions. Well, for the fans of Fallout it will beAn interesting city-building game that has some associations with fallout due to the Vaults and Wasteland. To be honest it's entertaining for the first few days or weeks, depends on your way of upgrading the vault. Right after you become well-developed your only function will be sending and accepting your troops from and to Wasteland for missions. Well, for the fans of Fallout it will be a great mobile game.… Expand
  24. Magical_Viktor
    Apr 30, 2023
    6
    Существуют просто Зло и Большое Зло, а за ними обоими в тени прячется Очень Большое Зло. Очень Большое Зло, Геральт, это такое, которого ты и представить себе не можешь, даже если думаешь, будто уже ничто не в состоянии тебя удивить. И знаешь, Геральт, порой бывает так, что Очень Большое Зло схватит тебя за горло и скажет: «Выбирай, братец, либо я, либо то, которое чуточку поменьше»Существуют просто Зло и Большое Зло, а за ними обоими в тени прячется Очень Большое Зло. Очень Большое Зло, Геральт, это такое, которого ты и представить себе не можешь, даже если думаешь, будто уже ничто не в состоянии тебя удивить. И знаешь, Геральт, порой бывает так, что Очень Большое Зло схватит тебя за горло и скажет: «Выбирай, братец, либо я, либо то, которое чуточку поменьше»
  25. HIXOOO
    Aug 27, 2023
    6
    the game is interesting but for a few hours and then it becomes boring I didn’t expect more then that from bethesda
  26. rezo_21
    May 30, 2022
    5
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  27. VincentVegan
    Mar 4, 2019
    5
    Repetetiv aber genau wie viele Spiele dieses Genres einfach süchtig machend.
  28. Thecaseyoz
    Jun 9, 2021
    5
    An addictive Builder game that will give your 10s of minutes of enjoyable playing then you will long for another game. In this game you Oversee the creation of a vault, build and protect your vault from outside forces. Unfortunately that is as in depth as this game gets. It is a free mobile game that requires micro transaction purchases so, I don't know what story people are expectingAn addictive Builder game that will give your 10s of minutes of enjoyable playing then you will long for another game. In this game you Oversee the creation of a vault, build and protect your vault from outside forces. Unfortunately that is as in depth as this game gets. It is a free mobile game that requires micro transaction purchases so, I don't know what story people are expecting here. Don't spend money on this game - You will be over it in a few days.… Expand
  29. asdgasgea
    May 13, 2023
    5
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  30. TitaniumDragon
    Apr 6, 2017
    4
    Fallout Shelter is a waiting game/simulation game based on the Fallout verse. You are the overseer of a vault, and it is your job to build up your vault and its population, looking after them and protecting them from the dangers of the world around them.

    This seems really neat. And honestly, it is a really cool idea, and it is fun for a while. But eventually you realize that the game is    Fallout Shelter is a waiting game/simulation game based on the Fallout verse. You are the overseer of a vault, and it is your job to build up your vault and its population, looking after them and protecting them from the dangers of the world around them.

    This seems really neat. And honestly, it is a really cool idea, and it is fun for a while. But eventually you realize that the game is an enormous addiction engine, and underneath that addiction, there’s actually not all that much game.

    The game seemingly centers itself around your vault – you can build various rooms for various purposes, but the big three are power stations (which provide your rooms with power), water stations (which provide water for everyone), and food stations (which provide food for everyone). You assign vault residents to these rooms in order to produce resources, which are consumed over time. When you log out of the game, these continue to accrue somewhat, though there’s a limit on how much you can accure. You can also rush production in these rooms to gain the benefit immediately, but at the risk of an “incident” occurring.

    You start out the game with 8-12 people who wander up to your vault, and you can produce more people via three main methods – sending people out to wander the wasteland looking for survivors, building radio stations in your vault to call out to people outside… or, your residents can make babies with each other. If you send a man and a woman to quarters, after a while the woman will end up pregnant; four hours later, she pops out a baby, and four hours after that, the baby becomes an adult. The game doesn’t allow inbreeding, so you have to figure out how to manage your family lines a little, though honestly it wasn’t much of an issue.

    Each vault dweller has a set of seven stats – the same SPECIAL stats from Fallout – Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck. Sadly, the game doesn’t really explain what these stats do at all; while it is obvious that they are tied to the function of rooms (making them produce faster), beyond that it is pretty mysterious what they do, doubly so as most of your vault residents will have low stats. As it turns out, they do have some influence on combat and other things.

    While I said that the game seemingly revolves around your vault, what it actually revolves around after a while is quests – you can send someone out on a quest into the wasteland, and after waiting X amount of time, they’ll go encounter some place. You move them from room to room, with them auto-attacking anything inside, and them auto-attacking back – it isn’t very interactive, though you can use stim packs to boost your health (something you can produce in your vault, and which I quickly maxed out on – turns out, they’re really useful to be able to spam endlessly). As you explore these places, you find stuff lying around you can bring back to your base.

    You can also just send someone out to wander around the wasteland aimlessly, hoping to find stuff; this is kind of marginal, but it gradually does accumulate stuff (especially if you have high luck).

    The problem, ultimately, is that the game’s interaction ends up almost entirely becoming busywork. While building up your vault is sort of interesting, after a while it becomes obvious that there’s a fairly simple optimal strategy to it, and after that point, it sort of becomes rote. While rushing stuff in the early game is an easy way to quickly build up xp, later on you start encountering worse disasters from it which discourages it a bit – which is probably a good thing, because it ultimately becomes a lot of busywork. But the problem is that most of the game consists on clicking on rooms to gather resources from them and otherwise engaging in a lot of micromanagement as you move around people to make babies or set up equipment on them or whatever else.

    Once you realize that the cute veneer is just a layer over a pretty Pavlovian addiction engine, it frankly loses its charm. I really liked the idea of this game, but ultimately it is the mechanics of it which killed it for me.

    Which is interesting, because a lot of people complained about microtransactions, but I never saw much value in them. Seems like it would sort of defeat the point of the game.

    All in all, this is pretty, but ephemeral; you might enjoy messing around with it for a bit, but after you’ve done a few quests, there’s really nothing more to see here.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. CD-Action
    Oct 14, 2016
    45
    Simply put, Bethesda showed us how not to port mobile games to big platforms. Fallout Shelter formula just does not fit PC gaming. [10/2016, p.53]
  2. GRYOnline.pl
    Aug 17, 2016
    70
    Fallout Shelter on the PC is a lightweight strategy game that takes its time to gain momentum but generates reasonable amounts of fun. On one hand it has some issues, on the other the "just one more click!" syndrome is present and finally the game looks the way it should have from the beginning. Fallout Shelter needs some polishing and isn't perfectly suited for this platform but it definitely deserves your attention.
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  3. GameStar
    Aug 12, 2016
    69
    A nice little build-a-vault-game, great for spending a little time. But it lacks the depth to be motivating in the long term.
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