

My strategy of utilizing a steady stream of bottom caps, sending my best dwellers on missions on a regular basis, and signing onto the game at key times in the morning and at night eventually led me to victory in a race for the platinum that my friend also earned soon after. Though players start small, the size and scale of their vault can become massive.

We even still laugh about how the Mysterious Stranger loved to appear at my base more than his and how he would hear the noise of the Mysterious Stranger appearing at my base through my microphone and mistakenly think he was at his. It was great when we would announce the arrival of Bottle and Cappy at our base, talk about new missions and vault dwellers we would get, and even talk about different strategies we had about getting the Platinum trophy. Although we couldn’t play together or visit each other’s bases, updating one another through voice chat about how our bases was going really improved the experience and gave me the drive to constantly improve my base. Fallout Shelter really stuck for me though, likely because it’s a base-building game rather than open world and the experience was heightened through a competitive bet with a friend.īase-building games have never really been my thing, but once my friend and I competed against each other to earn all of the trophies, it quickly consumed my attention. Frankly, as I much as I’ve tried to get into the Fallout series, and Bethesda’s games in general, it’s come to no avail.

While many people were able to play the game when it debuted on mobile in 2015 and then made it’s way to Xbox One in February of 2017, I came around to it when it finally came to PS4 in June 2018 and I was surprised that I took such a liking to the game. For me, a more recent game that has that lasting personal connection is Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter. However, there’re also some games that hold a personal connection that truly makes it stand out from the crowd – as well as all of the other great things above. Some games could make people’s best of all-time list for having the best gameplay, characters, story, setting, or plenty of other reasons.
