You have a vault, and your job is to nurse it towards prosperity through diligence, clever planning, and micro-transactions. It resembles XCOM or This War of Mine, but it plays a little like one of those interchangeable empire-building games that are all about making the numbers go up.

Shelter's raider attacks aside, if you're after a game that truly nails the perils of expansion in a hostile environment, I recommend Rymdkapsel.įallout Shelter is the new iOS game from Bethesda. Shelter's optimised for iPhone 5, while it runs on my old 4S it is slow and crash-happy. Fallout Shelter was inevitably going to bring out the worst in me. So if you had to pick a single word to describe my style of leadership, it would be neglectful. 'I thought I'd never get out of there!' he said as he jogged off, never to be seen again, happier in a deadly radioactive wilderness than he was with me. A while back, I sent my best guy out into the wasteland to explore. Oh yes, and these dwellers of mine are not remotely sexy: I put them together in living quarters in friendly pairings and they just stare at each other, dead-eyed and grim. Sadly, all my surplus energy really proves is that you cannot eat or drink light. They are uncommonly well lit, because I accidentally bought two power generators early on, tanking my economy just as it was starting to take flight. They are constantly thirsty, because there is almost no water. They are starving, because there is very little food. This morning, I stuck a load of people underground and made them very unhappy.

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