Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 08:41 pm
Shelter War: Zombie Games – Simulation Game Review
Shelter War: Zombie Games is a Simulation/Entertainment/Roleplaying game from Winchange Limited, first launched in 8th December 2020.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 4,079+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Shelter War: Zombie Games Stand Out
Become the ultimate Overseer and protect your bunker dwellers from an apocalyptic Wasteland in one of the last underground shelters in the post-apocalyptic world!
"[IMMERSIVE SURVIVAL STRATEGY!]
Last Shelter War: Zombie Games is an immersive survival strategy game with RPG elements. You will take on the role of a newly appointed bunker Overseer. The story takes place in one of the last shelters in America, and it's up to you to build the biggest and most prosperous bunker for all of your residents. Lead your survivors to a better tomorrow!"
"[WHAT IF THE APOCALYPSE CAME TOMORROW?]
Raiders and cyborgs. Zombies and mutants. Evil knights and crazy killer robots. These are the creatures you must deal with to build a prosperous underground ark and protect the last remnants of modern civilization. In a world suffering from a murderous radioactive fallout, building the safest ark possible is your one true destiny."
"[ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES!]
Last Shelter War: Zombie Games is not your typical vault-building game or resource-management simulator. With its unique mechanics, good looks and graphic violence (not too graphic though!), you’ll immerse yourself into a world of never-ending wars for survival and resources. Hustle up! It's time for your soldiers to construct the most legendary base of operations, then jump out of their vault suits and finally enter the world of nuclear fallout! Welcome to the Wastelands! Enjoy being on the warpath against everything and everyone!"
"[TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR PEOPLE!]
Last Shelter War: Zombie Games is a shelter life simulator with strong RPG elements. Manage resources, craft equipment and claim rewards. Enjoy hilarious narrative and role play the way you like! Survival has never been as entertaining!"
"[EXPLORE THE WASTELAND!]
Control and observe the borderland areas of your Shelter. Witness America in a way you've never seen before… filled with mutants scheming against humanity! Build your impenetrable castle from the ground up and take part in shelter wars."
"[FIGHT LIKE YOU’VE NEVER FOUGHT BEFORE!]
You’re on the warpath. Last Shelter War: Zombie Games is also a war simulator. Ensure your victory over countless enemies in battles that require strategy and planning! This time it's more than just another zombie apocalypse. This time you must fulfil your destiny to become the greatest hero in the last dayz of the world… or die trying!"
"[FEATURING:]
- Start from zero and become a hero! Lead the survivors during the apocalypse;
- Turn your humble hideout into an impenetrable castle bunker (or even an entire underground city!) by using clever urban planning;
- Explore your vault from a first-person or third-person perspective and complete unique underground quests!
- Train your shelter dwellers, whether they’re military personnel or not!
- Craft thousands of unique items and upgrade each of your soldiers! Use strategic thinking to outsmart your enemies in RPG-inspired battles;
- Join or create a clan of your own! Remember: don't fall out with your allies!
- Enjoy a complex and elaborate story with lots of twists and turns (rest assured, there'll be zombies!).
- Face the strongest enemies in a role play story mode or use strategy in Clan Wars co-op missions;
- Build your population from zero to many by using outstanding bioprinter equipment!
- Tons of combat equipment: from twin knives to portable RPG launchers!
- Enter the Collider and experience your first truly unforgettable time-travel adventure!
- Assemble your strongest warriors under the Doom Dome!
- And don’t forget to have fun!"
News and Contests:
Telegram: https://t.me/ShelterWarNewsRu
Discord: https://discord.gg/XtrEaZD
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFfPFxAsdafhKxwXq1b5GKg
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Shelter War: Zombie Games is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th December 2022
Recent improvements include:
NEW:
New cool heroes!
Squad slots can now be used for heroes and fighters universally! Add up to five heroes to a squad!
Items and crafting charts have been overhauled!
Production rooms now produce parts for crafting.
Repeatable raids! Farm more crafting parts!
New Hero's Genome Crates!
Redesigned Clan mechanics, Clan Wars, Secret Vault, and Collider mechanics!
New storyline and daily quests!
EVENT:
Mad Christmas!
Download & Availability
Shelter War: Zombie Games is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Shelter War: Zombie Games on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Been playing for over two years and was one of the top 100 players you drop a dumb update and now Im not in the top 10,000. Guess its becoming a pay if you want to be good game. Way to go, just watched our clan fall apart. Guess its a waist of two years but thats on us.
We love the game very challenging but when will the devs put out a update its been 2 years can you guys update the game so we can unlock more stuff different characters and different levels.
This is the best game ever created we would play this 24/7.
This is the best game in the world.
We love this game but it keeps crashing:/ and we cant do sieges anymore cause it says something went wrong.
We love the game and how you can move on kind of fast but the skill points should have a higher limit like 25 or less because all the fighters absorb the skill points really fast and even faster when you have five fighters to upgrade so you should make it like 30 or less.
Day One: we like the mechanics of the game and find it one of the better of its sort so far. BUT, the other reviews concern us particularly since we are strictly f2p. Imma keep our eye on that.
Fun game, but no updates in 8 months? Dont waste your money.
Ive played this game off and on for years. As of November of 2023, it is clear the developers have ceased working on the game (no updates since January of 2023). As a result, we urge people to not play the game. Kind of sad, because the game is/was pretty good.
Payed for character packs and robot service and now our account froze and we cant use it and the game made us start a new game losing all things we paid for we submitted for support and havent been reached back yet.
So when we started playing you could choose the gear to put on the dwellers but the hole class thing is in our opinion is not fun at all we liked it when you had variety and we think that is more fun but all we have to say to the developers is change it back NOW.
This is a fun game but we have fought some enemies and some of them which are bosses just have instakill moves that one shot any units like our melee units just get destroyed by the water lords final boss melee attack and then there are the exploding crabs which kills a melee hero and nearly kills our tank when it dies and some enemies just do to much damage and one shot a unit regardless of their armor or health this needs to be more balanced in our opinion it annoying how some enemies just can slaughter your fighters and Heroes with zero effort plus the place where you can get Fighter EXP is so little to the Workers EXP which you get like 1 million exp for workers but 71K for Fighters.
This was our favorite game but the devs have abandoned it. No more updates, no more fixes. We were in the top 10 players and have played almost since game started. Save your money and save your time. Find something else to play.
Had this game for over a year or close to 2 years at this point and it was Very interesting and relaxed shelter war game, it use to be a lot better then it is now with the overall update all old gear, chips, implants and a lot of other stuff has gone to just being scraped or just junked from this update and all dwellers and old heros have gotten weaker (to the point where things are impossible now) Not to mention all the new bugs and the increased daily purchase pop ups . . . We think we may quit the game from how bad its gotten to be now, its just worse now.
We really like the game and how you can control the characters , you can get the premium and the golden suits without needing to spend money only by spend more time on the game And there is no forced popup AD that all new games make But we have two problem First that after every war the game take you back to the main screen!! And the second thing we doesnt like is that in every game when you connect your game to email or Facebook they give you some gift or something! Or when is an update but here is nothing Thanks alot and keep the hard work.
After deciding to spend a little money in the game because we thought it was a good value on entertainment, the developer got greedy and increased the cost of things. And it is exactly because of this type of developer behavior that we tend not to make purchases in games. Because the developer can change the cost of things through in game currency at any time, yet the money paid to the developer to buy that in game currency, its just gone. No getting it back, and no keeping your in game currency at the same value you bought it as. For example, if an item you want in the game costs 300 coins, and the developer decides to raise the price to 600 coins after you made an in-app purchase for coins, than the developer just ripped you off, and most likely didnt even tell you. Because why would they? They know what they are doing.
We played for a few days spend about 50-60$ on the game and it crashed and we lost it all. Reloaded the game and it was all gone. Not worth the time until they fix it.
That debacle last night was the last straw for us. Why cant you fix your stability issues. Why?!? Its been months and months, and still, our game crashes every few minutes. And you know this is a problem! Its all over discord. In fact, you want us to switch over to PCyou admit its a problem. Your discord announcement makes reference to problems launching on weak devices so switch to PC. Thats is CRAP. We have the latest iPhone with all the updates.we dont have weak devicesits you with the weak platform.
Since the recent update the app has bee unstable and wont open completely anymore. Before that we enjoyed the game and played every day.
Another day of crashing, another day of the developers not fix the mobile side of the game and instead working on the PC side, why would we want a mobile game on PC, we cant take our PC with us. Thats dumb.
Is it broken? In SoCal , 10:39 am what wrong with this game.
We really like shelter wars right now, but right now we cant even load into the game. We have our phone and game fully updated but still cant get the game too start.
We love this game and it has a fallout shelter vibe to it its just that whenever we load the game its a black screen and it kicks us out of the app and puts us back to our Home Screen dont know why it does that. Still love the game keep going what your doing and we hope there are more updates to this game because this game might be an addicting game for us to play and play money on.
We are the acting clan leader of Ouroboros. We need to do our daily quests, move people in the wars, and participate in the golden skull tournament. But this last update, it just decided after we logged onto it once, we would have to keep the game forever open, but otherwise it wont load. And thats what happened. We ma okay with the gameplay itself, but this issue is why we rate it three stars.
We love this game, but we havent been able to open it since the update. It completely freezes our phone on a grey screen for about 5 minutes then it crashes.
The game cant even startup, it stays black screen and then quits.
Fun game we honestly enjoy it more than most but the fact its like you only get the chance to try it once when you download it then when your ready to boot it up again all it does it constantly force close itself we literally have to start it like ten times before the game actually starts. We dont know if its just because the server isnt big enough or what but as much as we enjoy this game its not worth the headache of having to start ten times or more for it to actually work please fix this.
When we get to play the game its enjoyable and fun. Game will load maybe 1 out of 10 times Ive tried opening it. Its a shame as we would give this a 4/5 if it actually loaded.
We actually liked this game a lot. The premise and execution were well done and we enjoyed playing it. However, you cant play it. The app if not kept open forever crashes on launch. The developer has mentioned on other reviews they cant keep up with IOS testing and recommended playing on android.
Ever since the last update, the game has become unplayable. It crashes every other fight. Ridiculous, we will check back later and see if it gets corrected. No more wasting our time or money.
Game has crashed at launch each time after. Next.
Fun game but crashes. Spent some money on it as was having a pretty fun time. Now the game wont even load to play. Disappointing to say the least wouldnt mind our money back but doubt thatll ever happen. Buy beware.
Im stuck in chapter 9. Need some advice.
Well the game is grate but every time there is an update it keeps saying disconnected from the server and check connection even the the connection is grate.
When we first saw an ad of this game, we thought wow, another one of these games? Oh well, time to check it out we had low expectations, and boy oh boy did this game blow those expectations out the water. This game is super unique, we mean, 3D CHARACTER MODELS? Quality is obviously not AAA game level, but impressive for a game like this Theres a lot of things that we like about this, and also many (but not as many) we dont like about this Pros: HOLY SHEET we CAN CONTROL THE CHARACTERS The humor. We mean, the Brotherhood of Steel joke was funny enough to make us laugh a little, which nearly none of the other games like this has before we can actually get cryptokeys from the bunker when controlling one of the characters, amazing Little details that you wouldnt be able to see if you werent controlling a character Its a really good game, but no game is perfect, so here are the things we dont like Cons: The amount of water units missions cost after you pass the 2nd area, its ridiculous How much harder said missions are, how am we gonna beat a mission if the enemy has a thousand or two thousand more squad power than our own squad, and the invasions do help, but not a lot But even with all that, we still like the game, and highly recommend people to play it. Unless your impatient, so, oof.
One main complaint is the lack of keeping what you pay for. As in the helper robot for your base. It never states anywhere in the he purchase that it will expire. Definitely not buying again.
These people use every trick then can to try and grub money. You cant save up for rewards because the more currency you earn, the higher the cost of rewards become. Even if you spend money, the difficulty scales up in order to make you have to spend more money. Avoid this game and the people who make it.
We thought it be fun ,to down load this game but after we down loaded the game it would not let us play,we all ready checked our internet and it was fine ,so the game it self just what play, we call bull.
This game is a great concept but the devs are a bit too greedy. No matter how much you grind, how much you buy, success will always be just out of reach. It can be played without buying stuff but the costs of building up your base and team are so high that it will become tedious very quickly. Your base will be constantly attacked (when youre offline), so it is hard to build resources without using the in-game currency.andyou guessed it, if you want enough currency, you have to buy it. And then the enemies level up right along with you. This would have been a great game if they just would have sold the game for a fee, instead. Also, if you have a poor internet connection, forget playing this game. We really liked this game but we quickly reached our f-this threshold pretty quickly.
We think there should be more defending from invasions from the raiders and you can see from their point of view and fight or watch the fight and they could be huge battles, this game has a lot of potential if you guys listen to what we would like as well.
This game constantly crashes on us.
The game is not a bad game, rather fun, when it can be played. The issue is, anytime o try and play it, it starts loading then crashes. We are running it on our XS Max. Only way we can play it, it to shut down the phone, restart it then play the game. For some reason, its the only way it will load without crashing. Besides that, it is a good game. Hope an update can fix it.
More bugs than cyberpunk 2077 and its a fallout shelter rip off which is a free game sp why get this instead of the original.
Literally almost exactly like fallout shelter with just slightly better graphics and an actual story, which is not to bad honestly. On the plus side its a new game and at least they plan to update unlike Bethesda who just gave up on a great shelter game.
Great time killer. Better than most of the shelter type role playing games Ive tried, butJust recently the dome part of the game in the map isnt working.
Im couple hours in spent 20 bucks seems fair.
The one thing off the bat, the fonts need to be bigger, and more readable. Im gonna give it a try, and some of the item boxes need to be alittle bit bigger. Thanks.
Great game. Fun concept. We were enjoying it until we started getting ads that literally couldnt be dancers out of. The x to close the ad in the top-left corner was super tiny and we literally spent 5-minutes trying to close it. Each time itd open up safari and the AppStore. This has happened especially with the weed game ad and the match-3 ads. Sadly what did this game was not the game. It was the poorly interfaced ads. That sort of did it for us. Deleted.
El juego es bueno pero grficamente no es de mi agrado.
Why this game has so many 5 star ratings. Maybe people are having far better luck with it than we are, we dont know. Normally, a game that crashes on us 5 to 6 times within a 30 minute window would get a one star rating. We are giving this one a 2 because it has some potential, we liked it. But crashing this many times in such a short amount of time makes the game literally unplayable. Bear in mind we had upgraded the base numerous times. So we put in some effort in playing it. Until these repeated crashes are fixed, a 2 is the best we can rate it, and thats being generous.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.36
- Size: 268.76 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, TR, TW
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Winchange Limited
Last updated: 29th December 2022 | Genre: Simulation, Entertainment | Developer: Winchange Limited