After its outstanding debut at E3, the latest mobile game from Bethesda, "Fallout Shelter" continues to rank no. 1 in Apple 's iOS free app charts.
According to a Forbes report, what accounts for the wide popularity of Bethesda's new game is its creative uses for mobile that weren't annoying. Nevertheless, it is a textbook case about the shallowness of mobile.
Following the tradition of building games like FaceBook's FarmVille and CityVille as well as Clash of Clans (COC), Fallout Shelter is a base building exercise where the objective is to construct as many underground rooms as possible while simultaneously maintaining the morale of vault dwellers.
That's the shallowness part.
Aside from providing food and water to nourish the people, a player must also work for power to keep lights on and the rooms functioning.
Users essentially act as the over-all manager to this prison-like civilization assigning people different work roles.
What makes the game popular is the idea of encouraging vault dwellers to have sex to increase population.
That's the interesting part.
In line with this, the flirting among dwellers can be rather literal. In some instances, dwellers don't mind attacks of raiders or Radroaches as they continue having sex.
Meanwhile wandering kids casually see their parents having sex.
Because it is virtually impossible for one to remember who had sex with who, it isn't long before the underground civilization turns into a big frenziedly swingers society.
Another feature of the game that excites users is the Wasteland exploring. Players should send out their best dwellers into the wilds to hunt for caps and gear. But there are ghouls along the way, which they needed to fight against that's why you might fight them dead next day if they are left out too long at the Wasteland.
Following the unexpected popularity of Fallout Shelter, VG247 reports that Bethesda is working on Fallout Shelter for Android, which will hopefully be out in a few months. b
