I Finally Got to Play Fallout Shelter

So after countless frustrations, tears of determination and screams of fruitlessness I was finally able to successfully play Fallout Shelter. It all started when I broke my phone.

I was work and had gone out for a cigarette. I reached into my pocket to get my phone and, being way in the bottom of my pocket and somehow crammed sideways, there was other stuff on top of it. I was digging for it, trying to get it out when it FELL onto the concrete cracking the screen and rendering it useless.

I was shocked. I’m pretty sure the words “OH MY GOD NO” escaped my mouth. I frantically picked it up and turned it back on but I couldn’t even unlock it the cracks in the screen were so bad. I knew then that my chances at at least kind of playing the game, as I had been, were shot. But as soon as I got paid I got a better phone and the first thing I installed was Fallout Shelter.

I’m having a lot of fun with Fallout Shelter. It’s a lot of fun but frustrating keeping the happiness level high and it’s rather repetitive but there’s something about it. It’s interesting to see your vault grow and populate. A few of my dwellers have died, even my Mr. Handys, the robots you can buy to put on levels of your vault to help against incidents and collect your resources for you, have died and it costs caps to revive things. Bottlecaps are the game’s currency, a currency I’m always running out of for one reason or another. I say this like it’ hard to get caps but it isn’t. You can get caps from leveling up your dwellers, lunchboxes, selling things, and from objectives. You also get caps from your daily overall rating as the Overseer. Then there’s The Mysterious Stranger. The Mysterious Stranger pops up every so often and if you find him and tap him before he disappears he’ll leave you caps. I haven’t been able to find him lately as my vault has grown, much to my chagrin. It’s always a mystery as to where he’ll be.

The game doesn’t require you to spend actual money on it but that doesn’t stop me.  I’ve bought a lot of lunchboxes, and each lunchbox comes with five cards and the cards have prizes on them. They can be caps, resources, clothing, weapons, or even special rare dwellers to come live in your vault.  They’re addicting to buy, but at least when I buy them it’s by choice, not requirement. You can also get lunchboxes by completing certain objectives and at the end of each week, but I’m not sure if that’s only if you get a B rating or higher.

I definitely recommend Fallout Shelter if you like phone games, Fallout, tactical games, pretty graphics, or games that don’t require you to spend money. I don’t recommend it if you hate repetitiveness, phone games, or games that kind of require your attention a lot. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to play Fallout 4. You, um, may not hear from me for a few years…