+ Great time waster
+ Well polished
+ Fun if you like to micromanage
+ Respectable F2P setup
+ It's free! Try it!
While playing Fallout Shelter, I am very aware that I am wasting my time. I can never quite rationalize why I am giving the game my full attention. However, there's something there. Is it the art design? The RNG loot to collect? I'm not quite sure, but something is keeping me interested, and playing, hour after hour.
What I definitely do enjoy, is thinking about how I can optimally layout the vault, and distribute the dwellers, so that I am keeping incidents to a minimum, and efficiency close to maximum. The quests are a fun addition since the 1.0 version, and I do appreciate that it's not completely pay-to-win (in that you can get everything without paying, if you were so inclined).
So far, with a maxed out vault in mobile, and 24 hours on the PC version, I haven't spent a single cent on this game. But I think I will. Not cause I am a victim of a devious F2P scheme, but because I've enjoyed this game enough that the developers and publishers actually deserve it - which is a rarity with F2P titles.
If you are going to play a F2P game, make it Fallout Shelter.
