# Fallout Shelter: Now on PC **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 14, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-now-on-pc/759940 "2016-07-14T23:52:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-now-on-pc/759940/1 "2016-07-14T23:52:08Z")
It was a pain in the ass to control this game, even on what my wife considers a comically large phone with a stylus. I’m really happy to get a chance to try this from scratch on a PC. A lot of the new features were available for a long time on the phone, but I didn’t feel like screwing with them so long after I’d gotten 200 citizens, half of whom were SuperS.P.E.C.I.A.L.S., with all their stats maxed out. Now if only they’d come out with a PC version of CrossMe. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-now-on-pc/759940/2 "2016-07-15T00:55:27Z")
Agh, why can’t they just have it on Steam? Getting this game is a stupid hassle. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-now-on-pc/759940/3 "2016-07-15T22:16:25Z")
Yeah, having to install yet another company’s front end was a bitch. But since there are payments involved, I guess they don’t want to give Steam a cut of that action. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-now-on-pc/759940/4 "2016-07-15T23:43:31Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Yeah, having to install yet another company’s front end was a bitch. But since there are payments involved, I guess they don’t want to give Steam a cut of that action. I’m 99% sure that 70% of Steam sales \>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> \* infinity of 100% of Beth store sales. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-now-on-pc/759940/5 "2016-07-16T21:55:34Z")
Yeah, but it’s the kind of game where they sell in-game play-to-win merch. Does anyone do that through Steam? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-now-on-pc/759940/6 "2016-07-18T04:41:28Z")
New patch is pretty cool. Yeah, easier to control on PC. Is there any point in saving criticals? I’ve gotten a random encounter twice now, something like “provide fire support for Star Paladin Cross.” Small building, with a single Deathclaw upstairs who takes forever to kill with one dweller. Downstairs is a boss Deathclaw, who seems to instantly kill me (lag?). No more rooms, and I didn’t see Cross, so I don’t know if she comes out of hiding or what. Some bugs. The sound quits out on quests sometimes. And I still can’t figure out to get rid of sleeping areas, as it wouldn’t let me build more as I have the max, but also won’t allow me to sell an existing one without murdering dwellers. > [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Yeah, but it’s the kind of game where they sell in-game play-to-win merch. Does anyone do that through Steam? Sure. [All of these are free to play](http://store.steampowered.com/tag/browse/#global_113), and many have microtransactions. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-now-on-pc/759940/7 "2017-03-30T19:04:32Z")
> [@Kinthalis](#): > > Agh, why can’t they just have it on Steam? [Now it is.](http://store.steampowered.com/app/588430/?snr=1_4_4__100) ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-now-on-pc/759940/8 "2017-04-01T01:29:23Z")
Now if they’d just have it for Macs. They claim it’s too much work to be worth porting, but there’s a fair number of PC/Mac hybrid games where the Mac version is just the Windows version wrapped in a WINE-like container.