I wrote more about this than I originally anticipated, so here's the tldr: monotonous waste of time that could actually be decent if it wasn't mired in typical F2P sludge.Room placement in Fallout Shelter is one of the most important decisions you'll likely make in the game. If you suffer from the 'Completionist's Disease' like I do, save yourself and avoid at all costs.

Every time I boot it up, I am immediately sad. Why? Because when I look at the angular, bony skeleton that's underneath all of usual and expected F2P/ mobile bloat, I see the foundation of what could be a solid and somewhat original base builder. A sort of amalgamation of SimCity, StarCraft, and - shockingly - Fallout, Fallout Shelter could be so much more than what it is: an easy way to pay an electric bill. It's too shallow to really be a true base builder, and the Fallout setting is really just window dressing on a lifeless, grindy, and ultimately boring time-sink.Īt this point, I'm hoping that I find the willpower to set this one aside uncompleted.

I say 'uncompleted' mostly because 'completing' Shelter requires either dozens of hours or hundreds of dollars, and I'm not spending money on lunchboxes when the 6 or so free ones that I've acquired over 20+ hours have given me spectacular prizes like 300 bottle-caps (when I'm already sitting on 30K just from room production) or extra base energy (which I am also already pulling plenty of via room production). Upgrading your dwellers has little effect after you hit a vault residency of about 60 (this is when Deathclaws start to spawn) because all of the enemies turn into giant sponges.

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