Fallout Shelter
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 17.9h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1Ghz, Radeon HD 6970 1GHz, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom: Classic (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Sheltered ($1.49, scores 63).
The press gave it 63; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. A 25-point gap in the buyer's favour.
It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.
Finishing takes 17.9 hours; clearing it takes 97, which is 5.4 times the campaign.
Still 1.0K concurrent players, 9 years in.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
It is still busy. 1.0K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: loot box.
The drop-off
70% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,001 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Fallout Shelter scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/588430/fallout-shelterThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12.
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