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Fallout Shelter

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Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter cover
Developers
Bethesda Game Studios
Behaviour Interactive
Behaviour Santiago
Publishers
Bethesda Softworks
Engines
Unity 5[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows July 14, 2016
Reception
Metacritic 63
OpenCritic 70
IGDB 68
Taxonomy
Monetization Free-to-play
Microtransactions Loot box[3]
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Persistent
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Building
Art styles Cartoon
Themes North America, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi
Series Fallout
Fallout Shelter on HowLongToBeat
Fallout Shelter on IGDB
Fallout Shelter guide on StrategyWiki
Fallout Shelter on MobyGames
Fallout Shelter on Wikipedia
Fallout
Fallout 1997
Fallout 2 1998
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel 2001
Fallout 3 2008
Fallout: New Vegas 2010
Fallout 4 2015
Fallout Shelter 2016
Fallout 4 VR 2017
Fallout 76 2018

Fallout Shelter is a singleplayer third-person building game in the Fallout series.

The game is a port of the 2015 iOS/Android game of the same name.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Xbox Play Anywhere
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Publisher website (unavailable)
Bethesda.net Launcher
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bethesda\Fallout Shelter\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/588430/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\FalloutShelter\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/588430/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Settings (Main Menu)
Settings (Main Menu)
Settings (In-game)
Settings (In-game)

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
If you zoom-out too much and pan the screen, you move out of the map.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped to 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Hotkeys settings
Hotkeys settings

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sounds & Music.
Surround sound
3.1 output since Patch 1.11
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

All dialogue is text-only.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTS 250
AMD Radeon HD 6970
A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.4.4f1[1][2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/588430/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (588430) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Unity Europe 2015 Highlight Reel - YouTube - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-03-19
  3. Fallout Shelter for PS4, XB1, PC, Switch Reviews - OpenCritic - last accessed on 2020-04-18
    "Please note: This game has monetized random reward mechanics, commonly referred to as "loot boxes.""