Maybe one day we'll get the classic top-down base builder that this makes me wish for. This is the only reason I even entertain the idea of hammering away at it. Perhaps this means that the game is legitimately more appealing to keep up with on mobile? In any case, it's very easy to just jump in, check up, and jump out. All tasks run on real-time, so most sessions are about 5 minutes before logging back out - maaaaaaybe 10-15 minutes. This is bearable on quests since you can (poorly) control your team from room to room and offset some of the difficulty with better weapons that you MIGHT be lucky enough to find, but defending your vault is nothing more than a nuisance meant to drain whatever stimpak/ Rad-Away stockpile you've amassed.Īnd with all of that said, unless I shape up and start doing more useful activities with my life, I will most likely still keep grinding away at Fallout Shelter until I'm at 100%. 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. 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). 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. 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. 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. Every time I boot it up, I am immediately sad. If you suffer from the "Completionist's Disease" like I do, save yourself and avoid at all costs.
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.
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