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Sheltered
Panting, scared, the shelter airlock smashes down behind you. You wish you did not have to go outside, but you do. It would be easier to give up. But you don’t. The hardship, the hunger, the thirst. The fear. You keep reminding yourself why you stay alive. Why you do this. Then you hear it. “Daddy, you’re back.” You wife’s face lights up and you op...
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Sheltered is like a premium version of Fallout Shelter, and it’s a far more thematically compelling proposition. I love that it makes you be quite ruthless in your efforts to keep your family alive, but then allows you to feel awful when they die. It’s less humanising than The War of Mine, which is the most readily comparable game out there at the moment, but it’s intense for its own, valuable, reasons.
Sheltered is unquestionably inspired by Fallout Shelter but it’s much more challenging and complex. It’s too complex for its own good and a lot is left to chance. It could also use more action. Over time, I am confident Unicube will make Sheltered very good but a lot of factors have to perfectly align to experience Sheltered’s goodness at once.
Sheltered is a strategy game about ensuring that your family survives after a nuclear apocalypse. To be totally fair, it's about a lot more than that – resource management, adventuring, trading, etc – but you'll spend the majority of your time with this plucky indie not thinking about those things in the abstract, but thinking about them in very real terms. Unfortunately, you'll also spend the majority of your time lamenting some of its bizarre design choices.
Originally released in 2016 following a successful Kickstarter campaign, ‘Sheltered’, a post-apocalyptic survival game published by Team17, has now made its
Sheltered is one for people that enjoy a tough survival game, and micro management too. You need to be vigilant with resources and keep an eye on the inhabitants too. The game becomes one of trust issues too as you’re never sure which outsiders who seek shelter are good, and which are bad. Sheltered is a well crafted game that is quite tough at first to make progress in, but once you’re used to its systems there can be a rewarding experience. Just be prepared to lose people along the way.