Fallout Shelter
A Better Life, Underground
Ratings
Age
13+
Category
Simulation
Languages
English
Mon Feb 09 2026
Minor adjustments to Vault-Tec simulation technology.
Security Patch Applied.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault. Build the perfect sanctuary, oversee a thriving community of Dwellers, and protect them from the hazards of the Post-Nuclear Wasteland. Assign Dwellers to jobs, provide them with outfits and weapons, and train them to improve their abilities. Turn worthless junk into useful items with Crafting and explore the surface for loot.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Fallout Shelter managed to do what very few spin-off mobile games do: it captured the soul of its parent franchise while introducing a completely different genre of gameplay. Managing your Vault dwellers feels like a high-stakes ant farm. You grow attached to your survivors, only to feel the sting of loss when a Radroach infestation goes south or a Deathclaw raid breaches the door.
The balance between resource management and exploration is nearly perfect. Sending dwellers into the Wasteland provides that classic Fallout storytelling through text logs. While the microtransactions (Lunchboxes) are present, the game is remarkably generous, allowing for a full experience without spending a cent. It’s addictive, charmingly dark, and a must-play for any management sim fan.
Features
Extensive Vault customization
In-depth Dweller management
Crafting and customization systems
Questing and Wasteland exploration
Iconic Fallout art style and humor
Featured In
Upcoming Events
Tips & Walkthrough
Build your Power rooms first. Without power, your Food and Water facilities will shut down, leading to radiation and starvation for your Dwellers.
Gameplays
Equip your best Dweller with a Stimpack and a high-damage weapon, then send them outside to find rare blueprints and caps.
Screenshot
Q&A
Each Vault can hold a maximum of 200 Dwellers.
Ratings & Reviews
Invalid Date
Needs alittle TLC
Sun Oct 04 2020 KialoEireDon’t get me wrong, this is a great game but it’s pretty easy most of the time. As soon as you’ve unlocked all the rooms there’s not much else to do apart from finishing quests and getting recipes. I know the devs are busy on other projects but there’s so much potential for this game to be bigger. Such as adding in new rooms like a pet daycare to train pets and raise their stats, different types of production rooms that utilize some stats like Endurance and Charisma for producing crafting materials, maybe even a monitoring room where you can designate and create specific teams of dwellers. Adding new dialogue or even giving the overseer the ability to interact personally with dwellers to raise happiness. Adding more variety to incidents and attacks like radiation leaks or bloatfly infestations. Even giving fun seasonal events and limited time weapons/outfits. It’s a great game to begin with but not a whole lot of work has been keeping it up to date. Even if it means whole new sequel like Fallout settlement where you can build different houses and buildings would be amazing, y’all have a great thing going here. Don’t let time and lack of care reduce this game to just another app taking up space. I have had a few problems with trying to move dwellers and the camera/movement wigs out making it difficult to swap them around, heck even adding to where we can search items and dwellers by name would be fantastic
Great game, BUT...
Mon Oct 16 2017 KeptricWhy the 4/5 stars? The game is great, but, it doesn’t hit the key points it should’ve. I see many people complaining about the 200 cap and how it crashes because of so much going on. Although annoying, it was expected. It’s a mobile game, it’s not going to be perfect. Something they can add that will be PERFECT, is a rebuild mode where you can rearrange everything that you already have built, like in Clash of Clans, where you can rearrange your base all over again like it’s nothing. This problem is becoming bigger because we might not like how our layout is because of some stupid placement we did when we first started. For the love of god I don’t know if anyone else has this problem or if there is a fix but I don’t know it, but dragging dwellers from outside to the bottom is extremely annoying because it glitches so hard, if I can have the option to just click them from room to room instead of dragging that’d be great. Quests, the only part that keeps me going, add more, that’s it, just add more. Other than that we’ll see where it goes. And hopefully, if ever, some type of multiplayer, maybe to quest, maybe to trade, give limited amounts of supplies or whatever. Multiplayer isn’t fallout it but he got mobile why not or at least be able to do that between your own vaults would be nice too, just like settlements in Fallout. Great game overall, just keep adding things for us to come back too. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Fun game, but…
Sun Oct 10 2021 MrOBrianI’ve been playing this game off an on for years, and really enjoy it. They’ve made some good updates to the game that make it even more enjoyable and give you more to do. However, there is one major issue that has existed for a very long time, and that is the incident rate when rushing a room. It will give you a percentage chance of an incident happening if you were to rush the room. If that percentage is 30% or higher, you are basically guaranteed to have an incident, every single time. It seems to be about 50/50 when the incident percentage is around 25%, and anything under 20% is usually pretty safe. The ONLY time I’ve had a rush succeed when the chance of incident was over 35% was during the tutorial when it makes you do a rush and it’s always successful. To make matters worse, failing a rush increases the chance of incident, which makes it to where I never want to even attempt to rush a room. I did an experiment once with a room that was at 27%. The rush failed, of course, so I tried again, and again, and again. Each one failed and I stopped when it approached 50%. I either have extremely bad luck in this game, or that incident calculation is incorrect. Now, the only time I rush a room is if the option to watch an ad to guarantee the rush is up, but often that will be disabled and counting down into negative seconds, so I mostly just ignore the rush feature unless I need to do it for an objective.
Not challenging enough, survival mode too annoying.
Wed Oct 02 2019 dankhollyI really really like this game my only problem with is normal mode is super easy but then when I decided I wanted something more challenging now it’s just annoying. I chose survival mode and every 1 minute there’s a fire, mole rat attack, rad scorpion attack, raider attack, or death law attack. It’s always at the most inconvenient time when I’m trying to focus on doing something in the game. The game isn’t even about managing my dwellers anymore it’s about making sure I have enough stimpacks to play for more than 15 minutes before running out. And I can’t just have all my dwellers working on stimpacks like they need food and water or else the health is gonna be bad. I just check the game to collect stimpacks then exit. I’ll wait until I’ve saved up stimpacks before I decide I wanna play for a long time, because if I’m playing for more than longer than a minute without stimpacks all my dwellers are dead. I only check just to stockpile stimpacks then I exit out before something bad happens then everyone dies. But I do appreciate that when your dwellers die they die forever. It makes you appreciate your dwellers better and realize you can’t let them die. And puts more pressure to take care of them better. But I just think the amount of fires and attacks are to the point that instead of them behind challenging it’s just annoying cause I wanna play but if I do then my dwellers will die cause I always run out of stimpacks so easily. But they still deserve 5 stars. isa good game. You’ll get addicted to it though.
Halloween! And what I can look forward to
Fri Oct 12 2018 updates, please(First of all I love this game and appreciate all the challenges it poses- it truly requires vault management and strategy to strive in this game, and just annoys me when people bash the game for over building and overpopulating only to complain about the over-inflated difficulty they themselves caused) HALLOWEEN, hopefully new things come from this, I’ve had this game for a while but I haven’t really picked it up since this month. I am heading for end game and I’m already feeling the end of things to do, my mission lists are becoming increasingly smaller and I hope this update comes with new missions like the previous years brought, but hopefully there are future updates to retain some freshness to the game. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll continue playing no matter what, but maybe new “off-holiday” missions, new wasteland events, and if we are lucky new weapons enemies or dwellers.. (but I most care about the first 2 things I mentioned) Hopefully bathesda can try to revive this game, but with the coming of 76 I can imagine this game only becoming more dead, or even possibly being bombarded with 76 weapons characters, enemies, events, clothes, missions... something I can look forward to if it ever happens. (Most likely after 76 has been out for a couple years) but non the less this game is great and anything that ever is pushed out into fallout shelter is a win in my book.
Fun, but there are things I would love to see in game
Sun Jul 07 2019 RickyS.🇺🇸I love this game, I love the fact you can spy on your vault dwellers and see what they’re saying. And how now you can find places in the wasteland and explore them. And how there’s quests. But there are things that I would love to see in game, and if by any chance the developers see this review would take into consideration. The setting for one has been the same since day one, well, not exactly the same, but still same. I would love to be a different place the vault is located, like in fallout 4 how vault 111 goes straight down instead inside a mountain, and the outside be in the woods, or near water. And I would love it if u could make your choices in the wasteland, for instance. If your exploring dweller says there are raiders near but they go away, I would like the choice to attack, or if there was an abandoned building you can explore like a quest, or if you find a friendly ghoul you can bring the along with you and receive a quest, and maybe bring them to the vault. But with consequences. Maybe they’re a traitor and have constant attacks, or they’re friends but bring radiation, but can fix that. Finally, armor. With the armored vault suit I think it would be cool to have different levels of it, like level one is leather, level two is raider armor, level 3 meter, level four is synth armor. Again if you see this please take into consideration.
Op creatures in missions or highly underrated missions.
Tue Nov 29 2022 BfjgyhBeen playing this game almost since release if i remember correctly tho i could be wrong but i have been playing it for a while and honestly it was funner back then there were no ads or anything especially when those ads weren't the same rewards over n over, but i was able to put up with them. But after getting back into the game for the fall and thanksgiving events this time around ive noticed the missions are severely underrated. I would send dwellers with decent amount of good gear and health and stuff with lvls 5-10 higher than the recommended and decent stats but each time and they get one shotted by all the creature type enemies in a mission that u wouldn't expect creatures in. I literally could barely even completely the vault birthday quests let alone some of the tg or the bot missions cuz I kept getting slaughtered! It would be a lvl 9 missions with no gun requirements i would send 3 lvl 15-25 dwellers with outfits to boost their stats and guns at least 10+ and still getting slaughtered. Idk whats going on but seriously need to reevaluate ur missions and play test them plz. These creatures are literally 2 shotting my dwellers and mowing them down within a few turns on the first room. By the time i get the the actual objective im all out of stims and barely get any back.
Major Annoyance
Sat Jan 19 2019 PitiphulMeThe game is a good time crunch; not incredibly involved, not incredibly deep, but a good place to tinker around trying to make every detail perfect. I only have one major annoyance that leads me to turn off the game immediately... I hate bottle and happy. I need a way to throttle them off; they come at the worst times. You just successfully rushed a group to bring up their happiness? Oh wait, whats this?! Nope, no you didn’t... Bottle and Cappy have come to ruin your work, guess you will have to wait three annoying minutes for them to go away. Make them turn off-able PLEASE, we are being punished for playing your game and saving your mascot dudes. Also; the chances are never correct. You have like a 14% chance to have an incident, but you still have an incident. So you wait till next log in, back to 14%, guess what, another incident. I could understand failing 1/3 - 1/2 of the time if I was rushing with a 30-50% incident rate, but I only rush with like a 10-14% incident rate and they fail all the dang time, often several times in a row for one room, making me bring the whole room down to 75% happiness when I wS just trying to top of one of the dwellers by 5%. I don’t think they are correct at all on failure rates, or there is another factor that I have not considered. I have tried making sure they only have a short time left, that each dweller has 7+ on all stats, etc... but none of it works, fail very consistently when rushing.
Some Youtube Videos found!
Let's Play Fallout Shelter PC Gameplay - YouTube
Bethesda Plays Fallout Shelter (PC) - YouTube
Fallout Shelter Gameplay Demo - E3 2015 Bethesda Press Conference - YouTube
Fallout Shelter - Update 1.2 Trailer - YouTube
Fallout Shelter - Now Available on Xbox One and Windows 10 - YouTube
Bethesda's Mysterious Fallout Shelter Sequel That You Can't Play - YouTube
Fallout Shelter - Announcement Trailer - YouTube
Fallout Shelter (by Bethesda Softworks LLC) - iOS / Android - HD Gameplay Trailer
Fallout Shelter - Starting a Vault Gameplay - YouTube
News found!
Fallout Shelter Has Been Downloaded 230 Million TimesAs the game reaches its 10th anniversary, Bethesda Game Studios revealed that Fallout Shelter has exceeded 230 million downloads across all...
iPhone in Canada Thu Aug 28 2025
Fallout Shelter has been downloaded over 230 million times in 10 yearsOn the tenth anniversary of the release of free-to-play Fallout Shelter, Bethesda has revealed the management sim game …
Eurogamer Thu Aug 28 2025
Bethesda reveals the most-popular Fallout game ever, and it's not even closeBethesda's Fallout Shelter has surpassed 230 million downloads across all platforms since its 2015 launch, making it the most popular Fallout game.
TweakTown Thu Aug 28 2025
Fallout Shelter reaches over 230m downloads across all platforms | News-in-briefBethesda's free-to-play title originally launched in 2015 on iOS and Android, has since been made available on Windows, Xbox One, Switch, and PS4.
GamesIndustry.biz Thu Aug 28 2025
Happy 10th Birthday, Fallout Shelter!As of the 14th of June, Fallout Shelter is 10-years-old! With 230 million downloads to its name, Fallout Shelter gives players a chance to try their hand at...
GameGrin Thu Aug 28 2025
Fallout Shelter Marks 10th Anniversary With Special In-Game Rewards And Discounts | The Otaku's StudyFallout Shelter has reached a significant milestone, with Bethesda Softworks celebrating ten years since its initial release on 14 June 2015...
The Otaku's Study Thu Aug 28 2025
Ten Years Of Fallout Shelter’s Huge Popularity And 230 Million DownloadsFallout Shelter celebrates its 10th anniversary, marking a decade of vault-building, dweller-managing, and wasteland-surviving for over 230...
HotHardware Thu Aug 28 2025
The best Fallout games, rankedFrom its beginnings at Interplay to its newfound home at Bethesda Softworks, this list strives to represent the vest best Fallout experiences across the board.
GamesRadar+ Sat Jun 28 2025
Fallout drops surprise free downloads to celebrate anniversaryBethesda has dropped a series of free gifts for players of Fallout Shelter in celebration of a milestone anniversary.
GAMINGbible Thu Aug 28 2025
Fallout Shelter celebrates 10 years with over 230 million downloadsIt was at its E3 2015 conference that Bethesda Softworks shadowdropped Fallout Shelter on iOS. The game then arrived on Android in August...
Instant Gaming News Thu Aug 28 2025
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