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Take on your role as Overseer in this base-building and post-apocalyptic simulation game from the Fallout franchise. Build the perfect vault under 2,000 feet of bedrock. Manage your Dwellers, explore the hostile Wasteland, and defend your base against radioactive threats.\n\nLead Dwellers on the quest to true happiness as you expand your vault. Outfit your Dwellers with specialized gear, help them find ideal jobs, and train them to improve S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities. Play matchmaker to repopulate your underground fortress. Protect your Dwellers from the dangers of the Wasteland as you oversee your thriving community.\n\nSend Dwellers above ground on quests to explore the blasted surface that was left behind. Find adventure, search for life above, and collect survival loot to take back to your vault. \n\nUnlock new shelter Seasons featuring limited-time vaults. 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You’re in control of a state-of-the-art Vault from Vault-Tec.\n- Select from a variety of modern-day rooms to turn an excavation beneath 2,000 feet of bedrock into the very picture of underground Vault Life.\n- Build a Radio Room to recruit new Dwellers or play matchmaker to expand the population.\n\nOVERSEE A THRIVING UNDERGROUND COMMUNITY\n- Get to know your Dwellers and lead them to happiness.\n- Find their ideal jobs and watch them flourish.\n- Provide Dwellers with outfits, weapons, and training to improve S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities.\n- Customize the look of any Dweller in the Barbershop.\n- Prepare your Dwellers to protect against threats from the outside...and within.\n\nEXPLORE THE WASTELAND WITH A VARIETY OF QUESTS\n- Send Dwellers on quests above ground to explore the blasted surface left behind.\n- Find new armor and weapons, gain experience, and earn Caps.\n- Encounter new Dwellers to bring back to your vault.\n- Complete missions to earn handy survival loot, or fail and meet unspeakable death...\n- Open lunchboxes for a chance to collect Legendary Dwellers, including Lucy MacLean, Sarah Lyons, and Abraham Washington.\n\nVault-Tec has provided the tools, but the rest is up to you. What are you waiting for? Get started building your Vault today for FREE.\n\n*** App Store Best of 2015 ***\nMobile Game of the Year - 2016 DICE Awards\nWinner 2015 Golden Joystick Best Handheld/Mobile Game\n\n“Bethesda's first entry into iOS gaming is awesome. Game of the Week\" - TouchArcade \n\"Probably the best game of E3 2015” – Gizmodo \n\"Fallout Shelter is simple to play and addictive as hell.\" - GameZone\n\n** Requires iOS 10 or later. Requires at least an iPhone 6S Plus, iPad Air 2, or iPad mini 4 **\n\nThis app offers in-app purchases. Please note that you may disable in-app purchasing directly from your device. 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