You are placed in charge of a Vault (which you get to 'name' with a three-digit number), and are tasked with expanding its production and activities and growing your population. Of course, it's a whole lot darker and less benevolent than it seems, and the other games in the series deal with those issues, taking place in the Wasteland long after the bombs had dropped.įallout Shelter departs from these games in that it takes place right after the events of 2077. It was something everyone saw coming for decades, however, and the US Government had long since begun a program of nationwide fallout shelters, known as 'Vaults', built by government contractor Vault-Tec. In the latter half of the 21st century, the world was rocked by conflict, culminating in the Great War of 2077, which began and ended with a nuclear exchange that devastated the United States, and one would presume, the rest of the world. Notably, the transitor and other key technologies never happened, the 60s and all that stuff never happened, yet things did continue to advance, even if everything did all have a weird 1950s aesthetic. Does this new foray into casual gaming live up to the name? Read on and find out.ĭuck and Cover Anyone who's played previous Fallout games should be more than familiar with the basic storyline: after World War II, history played out a bit differently. In order to throw some bones to the hungry fans – admittedly, some very tasty ones – Bethesda has released the free-to-play mobile game Fallout Shelter for iOS, with an Android verison coming soon. Fallout 4, due to be out late this fall, is one of the most highly-anticipated games of all time, and Bethesda has so far shown no real signs of disabusing fans of their hopes (unlike some other prominent industry giants).

Their acquisition of the Fallout series in the early 2000s resurrected the franchise, keeping it true to itself, but turning it into something even better.

I remember playing The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall back in the 90s, and probably lost most of my senior year of college to TES III: Morrowind. Bethesda has been a major force in video game awesomeness for quite some time now.

Fallout shelter type games