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Fallout Shelter is a free-to-play RPG with base-building and survival elements, set in a post-apocalyptic world. Released in 2017 by Bethesda Softworks, it has garnered 81,313 Steam reviews with an 88% positive rating. This singleplayer experience focuses on managing a vault and its inhabitants.
Overview
Fallout Shelter is a 2017 RPG game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is tracked in indielist's catalog of indie RPG titles alongside its developer and publisher relationships. The game is available on windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer Bethesda Game Studios with publisher Bethesda Softworks is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how RPG projects reach the market. indielist publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Fallout Shelter can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
0
Positive
88%
Steam appid
588430
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.00 to 0
units (median: 0)
≈ $0 to $0 net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 100 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
Sales estimates for Fallout Shelter are not yet available because its Steam review count is still being collected. indielist publishes a fully transparent, white-box Boxleiter-derived method rather than a single black-box number, so every estimate can be inspected factor by factor once review data lands.
Price history
90d · low $10.31Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.31 to $19.99, averaging $18.79 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.31 on 2026-04-17.
Synthetic series for demo. Real ITAD price history loads after Day 3 ingest.
Platforms
windows
Tags
Free to PlayBase-BuildingSurvivalPost-apocalypticSingleplayerManagementSimulationStrategy2DBuildingCasualCraftingAdventureMultiplayerSandboxRPGFunnyAtmosphericActionGreat Soundtrack
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Fallout Shelter sold?
- indielist estimates Fallout Shelter has sold between 0 and 0 units (median 0), derived from its 0 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Fallout Shelter?
- Fallout Shelter was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
- When was Fallout Shelter released?
- Fallout Shelter was released in 2017.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Fallout Shelter within the RPG segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Bethesda Game Studios's other releases and Bethesda Softworks's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Fallout Shelter sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Fallout Shelter page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next RPG game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.