Fallout Shelter

I've been playing Fallout Shelter on my smartphone for the past month, kudos to Bethesda for bring out such a cool free little game with no pay-to-win or paywalls in sight.

My vault is coming along nicely:

Where's the loo?

It's a careful balance between power, food and water, get them well into the green and you have happy dwellers, if not, they get sick and very unhappy! Although it's advisable to get the power room count up because no power = none of the other resource-producing rooms working regardless of how many there are.

Occasionally raiders will attack and this is where, for all you budding Vault admins out there, I offer this advice: upgrade your Vault door to maximum early on because when it is at max it'll take the raiders longer to get in. Giving you time to move your dwellers into the best positions possible to attack them... and believe me, when they get in, they are a pain as they run around randomly all over the place stealing your resources and killing weaker dwellers. Make sure you've got two well armed dwellers with good body armour guarding your Vault door too as they'll slow the raiders down.

Sending dwellers off into the wilderness is useful for getting loot to equip them later on, but make sure they have plenty of health boosts and Radaways so get the medical and science rooms built early. Also if you do send a dweller out, don't forget them, they'll keep going and will eventually be killed, it's so much the being killed that's a pain because you can revive them but for every mile they go they have to head back the same amount and it can potentially take ages for a dweller to return.

Most of all though, don't take it too seriously, as it doesn't seem to me to be the kind of game where you can lose. I just dip into it a couple of times a day, collect resources, level up dwellers, occasionally build a resources room etc. uses up a spare few minutes of the day ;)