Sheltered

[Harpo Speaks]

Anyone else been playing this on Steam? I imagine it's quite similar to Fallout Shelter on ios but I haven't played that.

You take control of a pixellated family living in a fallout shelter, and try to fend off the creeping inevitability of death for as long as possible.

My first family just died after 27 days, not great but still learning how to make best use of the crafting system and so on.

Don't let members of your family get so stressed that they end up hunched up in a ball rocking backwards and forwards, it's no good for anyone. Also applies in real life.

[Bored of Canada]

Sounds more like This War of Mine which could be interesting. Fallout Shelter is more like a general free to play thing. Very very very very light and bery little strategy to it other than just paying attention to the thing. Not that it's a bad game. It's not for me but I can see the appeal.

[Harpo Speaks]

Yes, that does seem to be a better comparison, This War of Mine is on my wishlist, and it looks fantastic. Sheltered is not as visually polished as TWoM, but the survival mechanic is really enjoyable.

I've just been messing around with Fallout Shelter as I hadn't realised it's just been released for Android. The only real similarity is the cutaway view of the shelter, it's definitely much lighter in tone and far more casual. Decent enough time killer as a free to play, but can see it becoming very repetitive.

[Hangthebuggers]

Yes, that does seem to be a better comparison, This War of Mine is on my wishlist, and it looks fantastic.

It's a fantastic game, very bleak though. Amazing soundtrack.

[Big Jack McBastard]

How the hell do you get water?

[Big Jack McBastard]

Never mind found some but now everyone is ill from food poisoning so they're voming everywhere, too tired or ill to go far enough outside, there's one bed and a toilet and no room for owt else like a mop and bucket (also no concrete for a new room) they're essentially dead in 4 days.

Not arsed now.

[Harpo Speaks]

How do you kill an animal you've snared? In my last playthrough I had a juicy deer trapped, but no way I could see to kill it. I presume it's something that's part of the upgraded work bench, I would have preferred to have just battered it to death with a metal pipe. I also didn't have any luck disovering any locations that weren't the three randomly generated ones that are always on your map from the start. I did send people further out to uncover more of the map, but to no avail.

On about day 4 with my second family. Great food haul from early expeditions, fucked up though because my pantry was full meaning that a few tins of perfectly good food ended up being discarded. Water situation suddenly got dire though, I think the expeditions might automatically use water even though you don't actually equip it.