Fallout Shelter
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (22%); after 10h it's 1 in 8 (12%).
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 70% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
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Based on all 83,768 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 16.6h for positive, 16.8h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (69.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (35)
story milestone ending side
- Mattress Stuffer Collect 1000 Caps 100%
- Atom Splitter Merged 3 Power Rooms 72%
- Dine and Dash Merged 3 Food Rooms 68%
- Project Purity Merged 3 Water Rooms 67%
- A Vault For My Vault Collect 10,000 Caps 60%
- Better Settler Level up a Dweller from 1 to Level 10 58%
- Vault-Tec Architect Build 25 rooms 53%
- You're Fired! Kill 10 Quest Bosses 35%
- Higher and Higher Level up a Dweller to level 25 35%
- Vault-Tec Engineer Build 50 rooms 32%
- Wasteland Wanderer Complete 10 Quests 31%
- Hard Work is Happy Work Successfully complete 50 Room Rushes 27%
- Prepared For The Future Make 25 babies 25%
- Paint ‘n Elbow Grease Collect all Pieces of 1 Theme 23%
- A Better Future, Underground Upgrade 20 Rooms to Level 3 21%
- Enemy of the Wastes Kill 500 enemies on Quests 20%
- Overseer Level up a Dweller to level 50 20%
- Weaponsmith Craft 10 Weapons 18%
- Smooth Talker Make 25 Dialogue Choices in Quests 18%
- Urban Ranger Complete 30 Quests 17%
- Fashionista Craft 10 Outfits 14%
- Decorator Collect all Pieces of 4 Themes 14%
- Big Pharma Collect 100 Stimpacks and 100 Radaway on Quests 14%
- Fashion Statement Collect 20 Legendary outfits 12%
- More than Handy Craft an Outfit, a Weapon and a Theme 11%
- Armed and Dangerous Collect 20 Legendary weapons 11%
- Survivalist Complete 60 Quests 10%
- Home Sweet Home Build 1 of every room type 10%
- Get Off My Lawn Successfully stop 50 Raider Attacks 7.7%
- Legend of the Wastes Complete 100 Quests 7.2%
- A Little off the Top Change the appearance of 10 NPCs in the Barbershop 6.0%
- Scraptastic Scrap 500 items 5.4%
- Interior Designer Craft 1 of every room theme 5.4%
- Overachieve Much? Complete 100 objectives 5.0%
- Blast From The Past Collect 20 Legendary Dwellers 4.1%