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Bethesda brings Fallout to iOS for the first time with freemium Fallout Shelter game

Fans of Bethesda’s Fallout games on Xbox, PlayStation and PC got the news yesterday that Fallout 4 will be launched in November – and the company also threw in a surprise bonus in the form of an iOS game. Fallout Shelter is a kind of blend of SimCity, XCOM and FTL in which you create your own fallout shelter and try to keep its residents alive and happy.

Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

Select from a variety of modern-day rooms to turn an excavation beneath 2,000 feet of bedrock into the very picture of Vault Life. Get to know your Dwellers and lead them to happiness. Find their ideal jobs and watch them flourish. Provide them with outfits, weapons, and training to improve their abilities.

As Overseer, you get to design the shelter and take care of its residents, but you can also send them out into the Wasteland to find additional armor, weapons and other handy loot … 

The game is free to download and play, with in-app purchases ranging from $0.99 to $19.99 providing additional resources. It runs on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on iOS 7.0 and up, but is optimized for iPhone 5, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus. No Internet connection is needed during play.

Fallout Shelter is a free download from iTunes.

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Comments

  1. Kevin Simcox - 9 years ago

    they need to bring this out on android come on guys dick move

    • Mustafa Çağdaş Çizer - 9 years ago

      It will. Some day.. As always app store gets it first^^

    • anon - 9 years ago

      The type of graphics that this game has, there is close to zero need to bring it to android. would have to redo the entire game just to support SOME of the phones.

  2. friarnurgle - 9 years ago

    Screw freemium.

  3. You (they) lost me at “freemium.

  4. Kacey (@Therandus) - 9 years ago

    The stuff you can buy doesnt really matter game play wise, its just if you want to speed up the process in expanding your vault, so the freemium thing doesnt bother me

  5. krikaoli - 9 years ago

    Besides being a freemium, the game quality really impressed me.

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