'Fallout Shelter' Gameplay News: Major Freebies Await Players as Bethesda Celebrates Over 100 Million Downloads
This week, Bethesda Softworks confirmed that the free-to-play simulation video game "Fallout Shelter" has exceeded 100 million downloads across all supported platforms. To celebrate, they are giving away major freebies to players who will log in to the game in the next several days.
"Fallout Shelter" is viewed by many players as an extension of the developer's popular role-playing game franchise "Fallout."
In Bethesda's official statement, the developer thanked fans for their continuous support for "Fallout Shelter" since its release on iOS and Android in 2015, as well as on PC last year and Xbox One last February.
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The said 100 million users are scattered across all mentioned platforms, and this makes "Fallout Shelter" the "biggest Fallout game ever," according to Bethesda.
To celebrate the game's growing numbers, Bethesda is giving away special in-game bonus contents for five days and that started on Sept. 15.
As of this writing, Bethesda gave away three free Vault-Tec Lunchboxes on Friday. The following day, players received an all-new Mr. Handy.
Lunchboxes contain a set of freebies that range from Caps (the game's currency), electricity, water, food, special Dwellers, pets, Stimpaks, Nuka-Cola Quantums, and more. Meanwhile, Mr. Handy is a robot that can be tasked to collect essential items within the Vault while players are inactive.
At the same time, Bethesda released an infographic that showed the growing number of activities within the game. "That's more than a BILLION Dwellers sent out to explore the Wasteland, scavenging for materials and battling Raiders, Radscorpions, and Ghouls," Bethesda revealed in its statement.
As of the statement's release, there were more than 104 million Vaults opened, over 7.6 billion game sessions recorded, and 933 million babies born.
In "Fallout Shelter," players – called the Overseers – are focused on building more rooms within their Vault/s and managing the daily lives and jobs of their Dwellers.
Every Overseer will start with an empty Vault and must build various types of rooms that provide the basic needs of the Dwellers, such as electricity, water, and food. As the player levels up, they can build more secondary but still essential rooms, as well as send Dwellers on explorations and quests in the Wasteland.
