In some ways, Fallout Shelter was kind of prophetic of a grim situation the world would be in because of a life-threatening calamity. And while things still aren’t as bleak as shown in this game, the sight of seeing survivors holed up inside tiny rooms in a large underground basement will surely give you a panic attack, especially when you can’t move out of your house.
Developed by Bethesda, Fallout Shelter lets you oversee an underground shelter, where survivors seek asylum; manage limited resources and fend off intruders to make sure everybody’s safe inside a bomb-proof bunker. You will be building rooms, producing resources, assigning tasks to survivors and ensure they are happy and content in their rooms. As each in-game day ends, you will get a report card or a “tracker” that shows how well you did to make survivors happy.
The concept is so unique that players fell in love with the game mechanics. Such is the popularity of this game that it is now a genre by itself and people are searching for games like Fallout Shelter on their PCs and smartphones.
Best New Games Like Fallout Shelter
Shelter War is one of the best-looking Fallout Shelter clones. The game graphics are superb. Cel-shaded characters are extremely well designed. The underground bunker in this game is so MASSIVE, you can build a city in it!
Just like Bethesda’s hit simulation game, Shelter War lets you construct rooms, including training rooms, supply rooms, research rooms and a lot more! Each room are divided into categories - production, training, support etc. In the production category, you can build rooms such farm, generator, water filter, water tank etc. Under “Training” you will get to construct breeding room, electric shop and the training room.
The game does not stop at just managing an underworld stronghold. You will also have to wage a war against raiders who would want to invade your bunker and steal resources. Battles are in real-time, but you won’t have any control over your faction. Just make sure you train survivors in the training room and equip them with weapons and armor to prepare them for the final battle against deadly wasteland dwellers.
Shelter War is still in early access with new features coming soon. There will be a multilevel crafting system that will let you craft various items, new locations to explore in the map, powerful leaders to help your faction win battles and new events.
Underworld: The Shelter borrows the main concept of Fallout Shelter and adds a few interesting features. This post-apocalyptic game not only lets you manage an underground vault but also venture out in the wastelands. The top-down exploration game mode in this game lets you scavenge for materials, with which you can build rooms in your underground shelter.
Besides searching items in the wastelands, you will also be fighting monsters, collecting treasures, money and rescuing mutants. You will also be tasked to decontaminate barren lands exposed to the deadly plague as you keep searching for resources and battling enemies for survival. While exploring, collect items that can later be equipped to your character, which will make him stronger in his battle against enemies.
Back home, you will have a huge underground shelter to manage, where you be treating mutants in the infirmary. You will also be constructing various production facilities assign rescued mutants to each room and create your own world in the underground shelter. Worthy mutants will stay in your bunker. The undeserving will be thrown out of the shelter.
Underworld: The Shelter also has a PVP mode that lets a player raid another player’s shelter. Before a raid, battle ensues between a team of mutants and the winning team collects the spoils of war after a successful raid. If you are looking for a game that also includes exploration and battles along with managing an underground shelter, then you must download this game.
Based on the superhit animated sitcom, American Dad: Apocalypse Soon lets you convert the Smith basement into a huge underground shelter to fight aliens to save Earth and the Smith family. Extraterrestrials have invaded Langley Falls and it’s all up to Stan and his team of Roger clones to battle deadly ETs.
You will be building various rooms in the secret bunker and assign rogers to each room to produce resources. There will be several rooms, including production rooms, raining room and a special breeding room where you can clone rogers for your ultimate roger squad.
The game also has a battle mode that lets you fight aliens in real-time automated battles. And if you are a big fan of the sitcom, then you won’t be missing the funny one-liners and dialogues as Apocalypse Soon has plenty of those! This new chapter in the American Dad Universe is written in collaboration with the series writers! Isn’t that awesome?
Idle Mastermind’s concept is complete opposite of all post-apocalyptic games like Fallout Shelter. Instead of building an underground bunker to shelter survivors and save mankind from impending doom, you will be bringing the apocalypse by executing an evil scientist’s plans. You will start with hiring henchmen to rob money and valuables from the city, followed by building various rooms in your underground base to implement dangerous plans, such as launching a nuclear bomb to destroy the city. Keep building rooms until you construct the laboratory where you hatch the evil grand plan for total destruction.
Your underground lair will have thirty unique floors, each room will keep generating resources when you are not playing the game. You can increase storage and speed to garner as many resources as possible for expanding your underground lair.
Along with underground vault management, the game also lets you hire various henchmen, who will be tasked to steal resources. There are 14 different bad guys, each deadlier than the other. Every character has a unique quality and can steal specific resources based on his/her unique ability and skills. Your team of bad guys will also fight hapless superheroes to steal special resources from them. These resources will help you build more rooms in your lair, thereby making it easier for you to rule the world.
A zombie game with gameplay elements inspired by Fallout Shelter? Not bad! In fact, this whole underground shelter management mechanic goes very well with the zombie theme. Zero City lets you build a huge bomb-proof shelter, manage survivors, train them and craft weapons to fight the undead.
The game’s underground base is mankind’s last refuge on Earth. You will have to build and upgrade rooms in your base, command workers and assign them to each room to produce resources, make weapons and equip them to survivors, build several defensive structures to keep the undead at bay.
Zero City’s campaign mode consists of several real-time battles. You can unleash special abilities as your team of survivor's battle zombies on their own. Zero City also has a special Player vs. Player mode. You will battle other players in arena tournaments or raid other shelter for loot.
Another zombie-themed game, Zombie Faction’s gameplay revolves around managing and defending a shelter. Just building rooms and managing them won’t be enough. You will also be defending them from raiders and thieves. What’s more, you will also be laying down traps, machine guns and flamethrowers to punish trespassers. Expect other human survivors to do the same when you raid their shelters.
Like Fallout Shelter, Zombie Faction lets you build several rooms ranging from glasshouse farms to entertainment rooms. Being locked down in post-apocalyptic world is tough, but you may also venture out in search of resources. Being prepared for the battle against the undead is crucial from survival, so you will have to equip the most powerful gear to your survivor team. Your war is not only against the undead but also against humans, who, just like you, will fight from crumbs.
Doomsday Clicker combines the idle game genre with underground base management. The game has a very unique premise. It allows you to create a post-apocalyptic world from scratch by nuking the planet. The goal is to profit from the catastrophic event by building underground shelters for survivors who have no option but to seek help from their destroyer - You.
You will be constructing several rooms for your people. The bigger the underground base, the more survivors can be crammed into each room and the more profits will be earned. Your newly created wasteland is filled with monsters who will try to invade your underground bunker. You will have to stop them and collect bonuses to keep survivors safe in your bunker. And if you are bored, you can destroy the world again and rebuild it from scratch by creating another underground base for your survivors. The game offers plenty of rooms, surprises, characters and new locations to destroy and rebuild.
This War of Mine (TWoF) has everything you would want to see in a Fallout Shelter-like game. While the latter presents a bleak post-apocalyptic setting with cartoonish visuals, TWoF has beautiful, almost realistic graphics that will definitely appeal to gamers of all ages.
Just like Bethesda's epic post-apocalyptic simulation game, This War of Mine lets you to manage a shelter, but in a war-torned world. You will control survivors, make sure they get food and water by crafting unwanted materials into useful items and protect them from looters.
This War of Mine’s see thru rooms of a dilapidated building are very reminiscent of floors in Fallout Shelter. However, gameplay is far deeper, challenging and complex. Like the original game, you will need to send a survivor on a mission to scavenge dangerous areas for items. However, the scavenging phase will allow you to control your character. You will stealthily move in No-go areas to search for key items, avoid direct confrontation with strangers, soldiers and looters and even fight them for survival.
While you will spend most of your time managing shelter, overseeing rooms and protecting survivors from incoming threats, there will be a time when you will need to take harsh decisions and may have to sacrifice dear ones to ensure others survive a bit longer. This is where TWoF does exceptionally well in emulating real-life hardships faced by survivors.