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40 Great Games Like Fallout Shelter

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Fallout Shelter is a time management simulation game. Set in the Fallout wasteland after a nuclear war, you play as an Overseer of an underground bunker. You accrue currency to build rooms, attract people and train them to provide resources, craft weapons and go on dangerous missions. It's an unusual combination of simple endless strategy set in a wider universe drawn from the other Fallout games.

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Fallout Shelter

Game Details

Release Date: 14/06/2015, updated in 2016

Price: Free

Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Simulation, Strategy (Collecting, Creative and Fighting)

Accessibility: 16 features

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Developer: Bethesda (@Bethesda)

Costs: Free. In-Game Purchases and In-Game Pass

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Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

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Rim World

Release Date: 17/10/2018

Platforms: PC

Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Open World and Pixels

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Release Date: 14/11/2022

Platforms: PC

Components: 2D Overhead

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Cities: Skylines

Release Date: 10/03/2015, updated in 2023

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Grid

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Sim City (Series)

Release Date: 02/02/1989, updated in 2014

Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Grid

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Frostpunk

Release Date: 29/03/2018, updated in 2019

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

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Release Date: 02/02/1998, updated in 2022

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS2, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Open World

Age of Empires is a strategy game where you command an ancient civilisation in real-time and must develop from hunter-gatherers to advanced forms of defence and war. This is similar territory to Civilization but focuses on...

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Release Date: 14/11/2014, updated in 2016

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night

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Release Date: 21/10/2016, updated in 2019

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid and Open World

Civilization is a long-running strategy game where you develop a society from hunter-gatherer to space travel. There are many ways to approach this challenge; socially, militarily, politically or perhaps by building wonders to impress other nations.

Clash of Clans

Release Date: 02/08/2012, updated in 2013

Platforms: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

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Platforms: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid and Weather

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Components: 2D Side-On

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Release Date: 01/02/2019, updated in 2021

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Components: 2D Overhead

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Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks

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40 Great Games Like Fallout Shelter

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