
The game at a glance
About Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter is a free-to-play simulation game based on Bethesda Game Studios’ popular Fallout franchise. Originally released as a mobile game, the game became popular enough that Bethesda decided to release a version for PC. As with most sim games, Fallout Shelter requires the player to take care and manage a small society of people known as “Dwellers.” This is done by meeting their needs, food, water, power, etc. Dwellers can be made useful to the vault society…
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As with most sim games, Fallout Shelter requires the player to take care and manage a small society of people known as “Dwellers.” This is done by meeting their needs, food, water, power, etc. Dwellers can be made useful to the vault society by managing their stats and training them for specific things. Characters with high stats in specific things will be able to generate higher amounts of resources for the community. In addition, the community is grown by either waiting for new people to arrive or by pairing a male and female dweller to create children.
Players can build a wide variety of rooms for the vault dwellers to use; everything from rooms to generate resources, to training rooms, and recreational areas.
Another feature of Fallout Shelter is exploration. Players can send dwellers into the wasteland on missions and to seek out new locations. Of course, these dwellers should be properly trained and geared, or they won’t last long.
Story & setting
Set in the post-nuclear world of the Fallout series, Fallout Shelter places the player in the role of an Overseer tasked with running an underground Vault. From this sealed refuge, the Overseer welcomes survivors in from the irradiated wasteland and shapes them into a thriving community. Success means keeping the dwellers fed, powered, and content while expanding the Vault deeper underground. Danger is never far, as raiders, radroaches, and other hazards threaten the safety of those living within its walls.
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The useful details
Game information
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Game modes
- Single player
Free-to-play details
FreeToGame coverage: PC. Additional platforms may come from IGDB; availability and pricing can differ.
FreeToGame listed status: Live.
Minimum PC requirements
- OS
- Windows 7 64 bit
- Processor
- Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9550 @2.83GHZ
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1Ghz, Radeon HD 6970 1GHz
- Storage
- 2 GB available space

