Send your Vault dwellers out to collect more loot so you can build a bigger vault? Sure and that premise hooked me longer than most mobile games but with the addition of Quests, Fallout Shelter 1.6 feels like a proper Fallout game. I hope Bethesda brings Fallout Shelter to Steam but for now it's a exclusive which gives people a reason to sign up for the service.įallout Shelter 1.0 was a great game but after a week or so I didn't know what the end game was. I may write a post about this in the future as, at this point, I have no idea how many different game services we are going to get in the next five years? Needless to say the game runs well on PC and I had zero issues with the install process.
It seems that every company now needs their own digital game service to compete with Steam. The only downside to running Fallout Shelter on PC is that it requires the launcher.
Fallout Shelter is a great game to run in the background on your PC and it's default Windowed mode helps this along. The ability to resize the Window to be placed anywhere on the screen is great for the times where you want the game open but you want to surf the web or play something else. The tap controls translate well to mouse clicks and I only found a couple cases where I would have preferred a keyboard press. If you have a 1080p or 4K display Fallout Shelter will look good as it seems the graphics were made with the ability to scale them. That said Fallout Shelter on PC is great and the visuals look incredible on the big screen. The game was designed for mobile and as with some games not designed with the PC in mind, they don't always play well. To be honest I expected the PC port to be a bad. I've been playing the new version for the last few days and if you've been away from Fallout Shelter since its launch last year, you need to come back to the vault! Since it's launch it's received some updates but it's most recent 1.6 update may be the biggest to date. It was a bit of shock to see Bethesda launch it's first mobile game but they nailed it as it was one of the most popular mobile games of that year. If you’re looking for similar games, Oxygen Not Included is a great game to try.Fallout Shelter launched hours after Bethesda's Todd Howard took the stage at E3 2015. You won’t find anything exactly like Fallout Shelter. You can get Fallout Shelter on Windows 7 and up. This can make the game feel underwhelming, and take away the feeling of achievement when you hold a large sum of caps without paying. Gaining caps to spend is pretty easy, but the game presents microtransactions to boost your amount. It’s made as a sort of inactive game, so you check in every hour or so but are active for only a couple of minutes to collect resources. The shortfall of the game is that there isn’t a whole lot to do. If you find him and click on him in time, you’ll get bonus caps to spend on rooms. Listen for the piano audio cue! If you hear it, that’s the mysterious stranger. It keeps the screen clear so you can inspect your rooms and roles without visual interference. The information you need is always present on screen, and whatever you don’t need will typically pop away. There’s a great bit of design here, which amounts to a kind of “folding away” system. Dwellers will approach your door, and you’ll need to assign them jobs to keep them busy and provide resources. It’s up to you to set up power, food, and water stations to sustain your vault. You play the role of the vault supervisor. Manage your vault in this free Fallout spinoff.