Fallout Shelter: The Board Game Review - with Tom Vasel
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Tom Vasel takes a look at a worker placement game of collecting dwellers and building shelter rooms!
00:00 - Introduction
01:21 - Overview
08:36 - Final Thoughts
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For Fallout fans like me, the game box is very significant as an icon from the video games. In the video game, when you find a Vault-Tec lunchbox, it explodes and reveals a random object to be used in the game. In addition, the lunchboxes can be used to craft a very powerful bottlecap mine. The tin lunchbox isn't just a game box ... it's a reminder of this item's importance in the video game.
Since when did Vault Tec ever care about dweller "happiness?" I'll wait for the misery and insanity based expansions.
In the control vaults.
dude im still playin the game and i really really need some expansions there is not enough stuff to do :/
Vault Tec doesn't specifically care about dweller's happiness, but they do care for experiments and if that experiment require them to not be miserable, so be it.
fallout.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Vaults
I agree some expansion to generate some "Vault experiments" as objective would be nice.
If you could raid other peoples vaults i'd buy it :p
95 made people very happy.
And then pulled the rug from under them
"This dog" lol. it's a horse.
It's actually a horse. ua-cam.com/video/cSjUJDlTJK8/v-deo.html
I really adore this game. It is amazing pack for small price. I would love to see some expansions, but as is, it's still terrific and have great success teaching and playing with all kind of people with this one.
I played this game yesterday. I like Fallout 2 (PC) and Fallout 4 (PS4) games, so I was curious to try this board game. I like the graphics of the game and the thematic tin box. In the box there is enough space for the cards even the cards with the plastic card sheets. The purpose of the game is interesting: the choose the next overseer based on who makes the Vault dwellers most happy. There are many ways to get happiness: by getting resources and using them to get items (some of the items give more happiness based on the other items, resources, dwellers or spaces, for instance), getting rid of the threats, healing dwellers and building spaces in the Vault. Players may block other players by setting their dwellers on the spaces, so it matters who is the starting player (in the beginning it is the player who was the most recently underground) since he/she starts placing dwellers in the spaces first. It seems important to get resources, items giving you bonus to get more resources and bonus to fight with threats and more dwellers at the beginning of the game. Then the player has resources to build spaces which give happiness and more space. It is also important to educate the dwellers so they get double resources or happiness during the next turn. There is not just one superior strategy to get happiness, so it's good to see what other players do and react their game movements. The game is not pure strategy but there is some luck needed when rolling the dices. The rule book is thin and light: it doesn't take long to read the rules and get the game started, but there is some obscurity in them, like how to build the new spaces in the Vault (it is by placing a dweller in an elevator and paying the price of the space in the bottom of a certain space card). I think the game is entertaining and not too heavy. I like this better than the Fallout board game (the basic game without expansions). I recommend this game for people who like the Fallout world and who like board games.
How is the replayability?
@@BuzzKirill3D I haven't played board games with people much since the Corona virus situation. Instead I have played the mobile version of Fallout Shelter. I'd say the board game is a nice filler game: it's fun and doesn't take too long to learn or to be explained. Probably the best strategy is to get more dwellers as soon as possible and loot a lot of items (bonuses) from outside the Vault. Everyone cannot do the same thing during a turn, so one has to choose the second best option to reach the goal. It depends on the opponents what kind of strategy one can use.
People who like the Fallout computer or console games may think the game is too childish compared with those games. They probably like the Fallout board game with the expansion better. And people who have never played the Fallout games may not know what it is about.
Pre-ordered...can't wait!
This game is highly underated.
Enjoying this game currently. Not a bad video but it should be noted that the top row was not arranged properly in this demo. These rooms are numbered and organized the same way everytime. For reference, why is The Wasteland next to the elevator?
The second I saw it was a tin, I knew you would hate that, but at least you pointed out it's thematic from the game.
I am also happy to see clear cards being used. Barely any games have them and they're a fun addition.
I hope the game will get expansions. As I love this idea and would love to see it expanded much more with larger developed rooms and more.
Yes, the expansions would be nice.
Sadly, no expansions so far...
Glad to hear it is fun. I enjoyed Fallout Shelter as an app. Will definitely order.
wish they added a 1 player variant
Me too.
Yea like a little cute travel game
Just play the app lol
You can download the one player variant on your phone free :p
I can perhaps understand the dislike of tins from someone who has a thousand games and, for the most part, isn't interested in the ornamental value of a product's box, but I think it is likely that the average person much prefers the visual and tactile aesthetic of a tin to a cardboard box.
It's a retro-stye lunchbox. Collecting those is an Easter-egg in the console Fallout games. This is a nice callback to that.
I’d personally prefer all my games in a nice tin than a cardboard box. If seen many videos where this guy hates in tins, it’s insane, like a kind of snobbery.
@@karaloca I'm with Tom on this one. I don't like tins.
They are either harder to open (like this one, which i have, where you have to fight the box a bit to get it opened everytime), or too loose and the lid falls off too easily when stored vertically.
They get damaged much more easilly than a cardboard box as they are real easy to dent.
They don't store that well when put besides other game boxes vertically, due to their not square corners; nor do they store well when stacked horizontally again due to their shape and their needing to always be the game on top unless you want to deform them (do NOT put any other game on top of Fallout Shelter if you do not wamt to damage it).
For very small card games, sure, i don't mind tins. For anything a bit larger, cardboard boxes are the best.
Though i will concede that in the very particular case of Fallout Shelter, they needed to do a tin for thematic reasons.
@@karaloca It didn't seem like snobbery. He said he personally didn't like tins because he dents them a lot. He's not exactly careful with his stuff!
FOCUS!
Looks way more fun than I expected it to be
It really is. I played it on tabletop simulator and now I actually want to buy the physical copy. I don't even like the fallout shelter app.
fantástico... chegou no Brasil tbm!!
Tom... I think there are numbers on the spots in each room that correspond to the die rolls... not just counting out 1-2-3-4-5... look for the spot with 5.
His was in the wrong order on the top level. The other levels don't have the numbers.
Yes, see the rule book, page 9.
Can I point out that your room placement is wrong? the wasteland and the entrance suppose to be on the left side according to the small number shown in front of each of that Red designed card ( see the back side of the card )
bought it, tested it and loved it.
Can you place workers at other player's rooms? Or are they just for their own exclusive use?
Didn't get that, might be an important detail.
It looks ... surprisingly decent. The aesthetics are correct and the transparent dangers is a great choice.
Will have to spend quite a bit on sleeves tho.
9:25
Yes, you can place your dwellers in spaces built by another player. When you place a dweller on the space of another player without a thread the other player gets one resource of his/her choice from the resource supply. In the case there is a thread in the space the other player doesn't get a resource from the supply.
Fun fact: the designer of this game was just on this season of Nailed It on Netflix
damn what ep
4.1 Let’s Get Lit. First of the new season
I was just watching that earlier today and when he said he designs board games I was thinking "I wonder what ones."
Lunchbox gamebox is a reference to things in the computer game.
This is an excellent game and could use an expansion... Pronto!
Didn't even know about this game, now I really want it, seems fun and short.
Great review and I'm excited about this game. That said, most of this video's close-ups were out of focus and could've been shot a little better.
so is it like a worker-placement Imperial Settlers?
I would recommend Century: New World s as good worker placement game for newer board gamers. If you enjoy it Century: Spice Road for a nice little combo of 2 games that can combine into one game.
While i really like (and own) the Century trilogy, i found a New World really bland on it's own. I prefer just about any worker placement game out there to that one. Though as a framework to integrate the other 2 games, it's much better. The other games adds that extra kick it needed to be interesting.
Fallout Shelter is a much better game out of the box. It's good without requiring anything else. It also has a more interesting theme as even non-Fallout (or Fallout Shelter: the app) fans understand it without needing to understand the source material.
It has resources amd a bit of engine building... and offers a bit of combat on top of it. Most gamers out there will find something to like about it.
so if i understand correctly if I am the green player my vault is deeper than others? that makes no sense lol very confusing layout, its more like everybody share the same vault with different levels...
You add levels based on player count, and they don't matter. Essentially, you're building a 7x# of players card grid as you play, and since it's worker placement, you can put your worker anywhere you want on your turn.
@@clintonjeffrey6699 I understand, but its a very strange layout for someone familiar with the original game and unintuitive... The whole time Tom was speaking I thought this entire grid was in front of every person, until I checked the rulebook afterwards...
It's just one vault, shared by everyone, but every player has his own floor.
If it's a true bethesda game, then on the first time opening the tin it should just unleash a swarm of locusts.
Or fall through your game table, never to be seen again.
Buy now? Or waiting for BGG final Rating?
I did find that the luck put me off. I ended up with nearly every monster in my rooms and had no chance of winning. All luck that was and no way of mitigating 5 monsters. I like everything else about it but that luck is frustrating.
Kinda disappointed there's no solo mode apparently
Ditto. This is the game that I wish was 1 to 4 players.
Well, someone will eventually make a variant.
Agreed, however, it looks like solo rules could be slapped together pretty easily. Everything being on a grid, and relying on dice rolls for placements...
Fallout shelter is solo and this is a multiplayer variant (pls dont woosh me)
Oops....don’t know how I missed that....I bought this today thinking it had a solo mode. I guess Ai just assumed that since it was a board game version of the app it would be playable solo. I usually check....brain blip I guess.
Wonder if I can teach the kids to play this? 🤔
@@searose6192 I don’t blame you, it was honestly baffling that it didn’t have a solo mode when the app is only 1 player...
I checked and there is a fan made solo/coop variant on Board Game Geek, you could try using those rules to see if they are alright
Maybe you'd be less likely to dent your tin if you didn't pour all your components out from 5 feet in the air over the surface you play on!
You putting the top cards out of order really bugged me
At least the board game variant has an ending :)
Get unnecessary triggered by starting rooms compositions (in original desktop game there is wildness, then vault door and then vault entrance, and then elevators), but other parts of review was good as usual and yeah, game itself is pretty decent and fun, vile still being thematic
Dreadnote1337 lol, I just came here to post the exact same thing! Totally triggered.
Actually Tom placed the cards in the wrong order, it's exactly like you say, they even have numbers on each space so you can place them in order, but I think Tom missed it
would be nice to not have so many outof focus things you talk about Tom, I like your channel !
Do you get a copyright strike if you accidentally say LUNCH BOX? :P
i think the rolled dice doesn't include the middle part which you said number 7.. because if you include number 7 into play.. there will be 13th room which impossible to have enemy/blackout whatsoever so i think the middle elevator shaft is not counted and we only count the room instead therefore every room possible to get enemy-ed/blackout etc (and also you said number 7 the elevator shaft can't be enemy-ed/ blackout.. so why have number 7 in dice then?)
just a small thought of the possibilities of the play sake.. i mean.. i really believed in Fantasy flight.. they really make a perfect boardgame gameplay.. and i don't think they will make this small flawed rules.. because i love Fallout boardgame, it's expansion and marvel champions and also loves this game(10/10 will buy)... and really really loved their gameplay design.
also.. The dice tower channel is my main youtube channel which i often watch. hehe
In the rule book on the page 9 there is a picture of how the threats are placed: the 1st and 13th spaces are free of threats but a threat can be in the 7th space (the elevator).
I really disliked Fallout (more of an Elderscrolls girl) but Fallout Shelter is a super fun little mobile game. Part Sims part Fallout. Pure simple quick fun.
I am looking forward to this review of the board game version!
The first fallout game was alright. Too much luck for how long it is, but his new one looks better
Looks fun but I can this getting boring after a few plays
there's a computer game of fallout shelter, hence the name: fallout shelter: "the board game"
Also free for mobile
Tins are thematic
It's a retro-stye lunchbox. Collecting those is an Easter-egg in the console Fallout games. This is a nice callback to that.
I'm honestly surprised U didn't destroy this game due to some stupid rules. Having to attack a creature and then miss the role, causing you to miss Ur next turn as Ur guy is wounded, is pretty brutal. 2 wasted turns.
Also very hard to catch up to a leader if someone gets ahead
You miss your next turn with that worker only. You still get to use the rest of your workers. So it's not great, but it's not game changing.
@@thedicetower but you waste your first action by trying to attack the creature and failing. Gaining you nothing on that action, then the following turn you have to send them to the hospital, which also gains you nothing. Seems like a pretty big miss when u only have 2 workers.
@@NakedGamer Sure! That's why I don't try it until I have 3-4 workers, and hopefully a gun.
In some spaces one can get new dwellers or happiness when healing injured dwellers, so it is possible to use the injured dwellers well in the game.
Can anybody who owned this game comment on the replayability?
Very replayable. There are many ways that you can win. You have to explore the possibilities. I have won games where I did not build any rooms (main ways people gain happiness tokens) and focused solely on getting gears so that I can deal with threats. Super satisfying to win that way. I also love the deep calculations everyone is making when we are on our last few rounds to maximise happiness points. There will always be someone who surprises everybody else with a surprising move in the end. Maybe that person wont win, but everyone was scared for a moment that he might because, in that 1 last turn, he managed to rack up so many points.
The only regret I have on this game is that I bought the Thai version. I will get the English version soon. Hopefully there will be an expansion
Just play the "free" game version.
thanks for the review the game looks too light :( When will we have decent fallout game I wonder :(
A very blurry review
I was really disappointed with "Fallout: The Boardgame" after taking a chance on it. Looks like I should of waited for this 🙄.
Atomic bonds expansion made the game more fun. I like it a lot better now.
It's a very different game with both expansions on...
This game doesn't play all that well, I only paid about 25 quid for it.. So not the absolute end of the world, its just a bit naff. Yes, naff! The additional resource if someone uses one of your rooms doesn't really add much, as we played on the resources became kind of redundant e.g you don't need the food resources once certain rooms are built... Rolling dice to spawn and fight a threat is tedious and in the end we were praying for the threats to be used (18of them) just to end the game... A duff 'un!
You don't even have any badic knowledge of the SPECIAL stats, and you didn't even place the vault entrance, vault door and wasteland in the correct places!
Complains about the tin being easy to dent.... also does a component drop at the start of his videos.... got to love a hypocrite
There's no way a 7 is the elevator. There are 12 spaces (6 to the left, 6 to the right). Don't even need to know anything about the game to see that.
7 is the elevator. 6 spaces to the left and right But you cant roll a 1 or a 13 with 2d6.