Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 03:25 pm
Fallout Shelter – Simulation Game Review
Fallout Shelter is a Simulation/Roleplaying game from Bethesda Softworks LLC, first launched in 15th June 2015.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 542,317+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Fallout Shelter Stand Out
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.
BUILD THE PERFECT VAULT
Create a brighter future…underground! 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.
OVERSEE A THRIVING COMMUNITY
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.
CUSTOMIZE
Turn worthless junk into useful items with Crafting! Customize the look of any dweller in the Barbershop.
PROSPER
A well-run Vault requires a variety of Dwellers with a mix of skills. Build a Radio Room to attract new Dwellers. Or, take an active role in their personal lives; play matchmaker and watch the sparks fly!
EXPLORE THE WASTELAND
Send Dwellers above ground to explore the blasted surface left behind and seek adventure, handy survival loot, or unspeakable death. Find new armor and weapons, gain experience, and earn Caps. But don’t let them die!
PROTECT YOUR VAULT
From time to time, idyllic Vault life may be disrupted by the dangers of post-nuclear life. Prepare your Dwellers to protect against threats from the outside…and within.
Vault-Tec has provided the tools, but the rest is up to you. What are you waiting for? Get started building your Vault today for FREE.
App Store Best of 2015
Mobile Game of the Year – 2016 DICE Awards
Winner 2015 Golden Joystick Best Handheld/Mobile Game
“Bethesda's first entry into iOS gaming is awesome. Game of the Week" – TouchArcade
"Probably the best game of E3 2015” – Gizmodo
"Fallout Shelter is simple to play and addictive as hell." – GameZone
Requires iOS 10 or later. Requires at least an iPhone 6S Plus, iPad Air 2, or iPad mini 4
This app offers in-app purchases. Please note that you may disable in-app purchasing directly from your device. For more information, visit http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4213.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Fallout Shelter is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Vault-Tec Presents: Fallout Seasons!
Limited-time events engineered for maximum Overseer enjoyment!
-Build limited-time Experimental Vaults: safe, efficient, and only mildly hazardous.
-Earn exclusive rewards to boost morale and compliance, and keep your Dwellers happy.
-Unlock characters, outfits, weapons and more from Season 2 of the Fallout TV Series!
-Spin the Wheel to win Fabulous Prizes. Remember: every spin is a with when Vault-Tec!
-Upgrade your Season Pass for premium prizes!
-Vault-Tec approved minor adjustments preventing the vault from malfunctioning.
Download & Availability
Fallout Shelter is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Fallout Shelter 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:
Let us edit and move base parts around.
Best game of all time we could play this all day.
Add more enemies and buildings or even a free Rome.
Please please make a fallout 5.
Honestly we have so much fun playing this with our husband .. We both love it so much.
Best fallout game you can find on mobile spent so much time and almost never got bored.
We would label this as an essential game to have on your mobile device. Plenty to do and manage while also being super simple.
This gave us a exquisitely awesome and unique experience for us by just engaging in the activity of playing this game. We shall say that this game has given us inspiration to keep on going even though it was slowly starting we never stopped.
This game is so much fun and relaxing. Love it so much.
This game in our opinion is super underrated we have such fun building our own personal vault and we love making funny jokes when playing. Id would recommend this game to everyone. Highly enjoyable.
THIS is a message directly to todd howard. Todd, if you see this, ADD REFERENCES TO FALLOUT NEW VEGAS AND PAST GAMES TO THE SEASON 2!!!!!!! We NEED COURIER SIX.
Its a great game. It doesnt nickel and dime you like games do now. It has been free for the longest and this is why we pointed up the 20 bucks for the premium because theyve been treating us fair for years.
Ive watched the series and had us want to be an overseer!! Game is cool.
We LOVE IT IT'S SO FUN AND ENTERTAINING!!! EVERY THING YOU WOULD WANT IN A GAME NO WONDER WHY 60 SECONDS! REFERENCE THING. LOVE IT YOU SHOULD GET.
Intrigue and hard like a mom loves. Great game.
We love the fallout franchise and this is a great showcase of the vault life.
We just got a iPad today and we love it but this game made it all better it is a amazing game.
Our game crashes in the new Christmas season vault trying to open quests.
The most fun game we have ever gotten.
We grew up with this game. This game was our childhood.
We are not allowed to play fallout 1234 so this a good thing for us.
Literally just like playing the video games, but on our phone.
We love this game please keep updating it.
Oh our God, we are so happy thank you so much, Bethesda its not a lot but this update brings so much new life to the game we are so excited to see whats next we were low-key losing hope that this game would receive any further cool updates or a follow up sequel having vault characters from the fallout TV show is awesome and even though Im not ecstatic about having a battle pass we gotta pay for and the price is really high $9.99-19.99 but its awesome seeing new content in the game and we hope that this is something that will continue occurring who knows maybe well get even more features to anyone reading try it out. Its pretty cool. Bethesda if youre reading this 4.99-9.99-14.99 should be the most that battle pass cost for this Caliper of game you wanna charge more give us more reasons to pay more something that a game like this wont ever be capable of providing we suggest you make more games using the fallout universe that cant do so pouring over old games from the fallout universe would be great greatly appreciated.
This game is so intense we love it Theres also so many surprises that makes the game fun.
We are John fallout and we enjoy this game.
Ive been playing this since before fallout 4 came out. We laughed we cried, we lost 20 pounds. Get this app.
This is the best fallout game ever.
We love playing this game on our freetime, definitely one of our favorites.
The event was really cool the only thing we did not like about it is that it was kinda repetitive.
This game has got to be a great in mobile gaming with fun game play and lots of things to do. There are no pop up ads and the game does require internet connection to play. Also if you are a game dev reading this, keeping updating it. AMAZING GAME.
Peak game but definitely not a 13+ app. Definitely a 4+.
Im been playing this game like 10years more or less And Im been hoping to have a multiplayer like a separate Vault for only multiplayer.
Unable to select a quest due to the game crashing when the quest screen is brought up. Please help.
There are some things they could add like like customizing armor, like maybe different power armor variation like different colors like in the games.
Love this game been playin for over a decade.
So ok you guys should add a new thing where the dwellers attack gos up when they lvl up this would help us a lot so if you Guys can do this it would help a LOT so plz add this feature thank you.
Just a few helpful ideas,dweller skills(like pet skills),please add super mutants as monster and possibly vault dweller,two new rooms ,pet trainer and nuka cola maker as the highest rooms with an expanded population, thank you for considering.
Its Good There Arent That Many ADS In This Game, Of Course They Do Have To Put A Few ADS Here And There Just To Make A Little Profit, But This Is A Nice Slow Paced Game! The Only Problem we Have With This Game Is That we Do Feel Like They Could Improve Some Of The 3D Models And Some Of The 2D Images They Use Could Also Definitely Make A Improvement. Nice Game Bethesda Just Hope To See Some Improvement Of Textures And Models, Also Thank You If Read This And Have A Nice Day, And Make Sure You Have Plenty Of Rad-Away.
We enjoy the so much better than any other games like this one.
The pass objective keeps resetting our progress on the ones we're not done with.
We love the experimental vaults we bought the premium pass but It made the app glitch out so we had to delete it then we re downloaded it and our premium pass was gone. If we could get this fixed 5 stars.
We want to say it is good that there is new content even though it is still the same adding in the experimental vaults is cool basically having additional quests something that has been needed the whole time we hope there will be another fallout type mobile game in the future still we do have a question when you send a dweller into the wasteland and they acquire a weapon or outfit and the background color of the window where when you tap the dweller to view the stats it is yellow why did since this update change the color of the text and numbers of the stats change to white where we can not see it also there are some texts other places where the texts are very small considering our phone is not huge and related to this it can be impossible to find and catch the mysterious stranger a certain percentage of the times he appears for the same reason of we are using our phone where it was not a problem using our tablet it is not huge problems however they are problems nonetheless Anyway thank you for the update and we hope this feedback is helpful to you and others.
Ive been playing the game since 2015 on our computer and the game is great and theyve definitely improved it a lot but Im not a fan of the pass for the micro transactions. It wasnt as bad when they first started the game. We got they have to make money, but theres better ways to do that. We think if they keep it at the level and dont add any more micro transactions or ads, itll be fine. Would like to see more pets though definitely a recommend for any fallout fan.
We love the game. Yes its over a decade old now but it has been a great experience. Its a great game to kill time with while also having something to progress and challenge your skills of management.
Good game but the challenges are insanely frustrating. When sending dwellers to fight raiders or put out a fire they are virtually 0 help. Dwellers with guns stand in front of raiders or run to the opposite room rather than fight. It takes 10 minutes to take out 3 raiders when we have 45 dwellers because they do nothing but stand there and get shot at.
The game is so addicting but across all devices we cant seem to watch ads to get boosts or reduced time. The game play is so slow without those options that even if its addicting, you lose interest. From the sounds of other reviews theres many bugs to fix.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.2
- Size: 543.76 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Bethesda Softworks LLC
Last updated: 16th December 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Roleplaying | Developer: Bethesda Softworks LLC