Fallout Shelter is OUT NOW for iOS & Android platforms and is a mobile-exclusive SimTower-style strategy game created exclusively for touchscreens. It was a surprise announcement at Bethesda’s E3 2015 Press Conference.
Check out this amazing looking piece of mobile gaming goodness from the E3 2015 stage demo!
In 2007 when making Fallout 3, the iPhone came out. Bethesda and the team played games on it all the time and talked about making their own game. But didn’t. However they kept those ideas, and refined them over & over again… So revealed Bethesda’s Todd Howard.
They wanted a game that would be of the highest quality and be absolutely perfect for a touchscreen only interface… That game is now called “Fallout Shelter”.
Int it, you make your own vault… you are the overseer, controlling everything. Just like The Sims Tower! You see your little sim people and all the rooms that make up the vault, and you must keep them happy. It’s heavily inspired by Little Computer People (which in-turn inspired Will Wright’s The Sims) and borrows other elements from games like X-Com, SimCity, and Faster Than Light.
Your “sims” have full stats and can level-up….
You can give them new items and outfits, even weapons. You’ll send them off into the wasteland, have adventures, earn loot. This was all most inspired by a little-known game that Todd is a huge fan of, called “Progress Quest”, an odd RPG that he urges everyone to check out.
In Fallout Shelter, resources are important and include food, water and power. There are lots of different rooms you can build. Some train people. The bar, naturally, trains charisma. While the classroom trains “Intelligence” (the game also includes children).
You get rewarded with lunch boxes full of loot.
Accidents can happen as well… fires, raider attacks.
However, in a hilarious moment, Todd revealed that the “Best way to get new dwellers is the old fashioned way” (he then sends two adults into a room alone where they mate [behind closed doors, naturally]; and out pops a pregnant girl!)
Mating raises their “Happiness.” You even get to name the babies!
Best of all, Fallout Shelter is out now and is FREE. No paywall timers, no Internet required. Although you can use real money to buy more lunch boxes, but the whole game was created with the sole intent as a game that the entire development team would wan to play themselves. Thus free was the natural way to go.
SYNOPSIS
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Key Fallout Shelter Features:
BUILD THE PERFECT VAULT
Create a brighter future…underground! Select from a variety of modern-day rooms to turn an excavation beneath 2,000 feet of bedrock into the very picture of Vault Life.
OVERSEE A THRIVING COMMUNITY
Get to know your Dwellers and lead them to happiness. Find their ideal jobs and watch them flourish. Provide them with outfits, weapons, and training to improve their abilities.
PROSPER
A well-run Vault requires a variety of Dwellers with a mix of skills. Build a Radio Room to attract new Dwellers. Or, take an active role in their personal lives; play matchmaker and watch the sparks fly!
EXPLORE THE WASTELAND
Send Dwellers above ground to explore the blasted surface left behind and seek adventure, handy survival loot, or unspeakable death. Find new armor and weapons, gain experience, and earn Caps. But don’t let them die!
PROTECT YOUR VAULT
From time to time, idyllic Vault life may be disrupted by the dangers of post-nuclear life. Prepare your Dwellers to protect against threats from the outside…and within.
Vault-Tec has provided the tools, but the rest is up to you. What are you waiting for? Get started building your Vault today for FREE.
Requires iOS7 or later. Compatible with iPhone 5 or later, iPad Mini 2 or later, iPad 3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and iPad Air 2.
Fallout Shelter looks absolutely phenomenal! Everything about it, from the cute-style and characters, to the inspiration it takes from, to the way you can pan across all the many rooms and send your guys out to battle.
This is easily one of the most impressive-looking mobile-exclusives I’ve ever laid my eyes on. And I’m not even a Fallout fan!
DANG! I gotta get an iPad! 😀
Did you download Fallout Shelter yet?!