Fallout Shelter

Fallout Shelter

Since I'm talking mobile games, let's talk about one that I've been playing for about a year.

Fallout 4

I really enjoyed Fallout 4. I did a fairly quick play through once and then started another one. For me, that's a big deal since I usually want to retire a game once I have finished the plot.

So is Fallout Shelter like the Fallout series? No. Not at all, except superficially. The art style, the setting, and some sounds is just about it. Fallout Shelter is more like a resource allocation building game or a tap game.

Gameplay

There is a lot to like. You get to build your vault, acquire resources, train people, and do quests. For the most part the game is pretty slick and satisfying.

On the downside, it takes a long time to load and it crashes quite a bit on my phone. I have a hard time accurately selecting individual people. When disasters hit the vault, sometimes the location is not clear and I have to scroll around a lot to find it. I don't like the barely-3d look of the game any more than a 2d sprite based game and a 2d game would solve a lot of the annoyances.

The hardcore mode was appealing to me, but the difficult interface leads to occasional frustrating deaths, and in a hardcore game I know it would lead to rage quit, so I never tried it.

The game itself is free and I never saw a reason to spend money. You can get a good feel for the game without a large time investment. For that, I give Fallout Shelter a solid thumbs up.