Fallout Shelter in IOS

★★★★★

★★★★★ Great game, BUT...

Why 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…

I’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.

I 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

(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

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.

Been 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

The 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.