Fallout Shelter: The Board Game Fallout is a huge video game franchise that already has spawned a couple of board game conversions. Here Fantasy Flight Games bring us a board game version of the popular mobile game Fallout Shelter. Just like the mobile game the board game sees you managing a number of vault dwellers as an officer. Your vault dwellers happiness is key so you will need to balance pushing them to work hard with looking out for their needs. Complicating this more are the monsters that should up and need a good battering! The game comes in a metal tine reminiscent of lunchbox tins that also feature in the mobile game. It also shares the cartoony art style and look throughout the components. Speaking of which the components are excellent throughout. From the vault dweller miniatures to the clear monster cards that over lay on the rooms it's great stuff! You will use you vault dwellers in a worker placement style to activate rooms, have babies and fight monsters. You are in charge of a whole level of the underground vault, but you can place in other levels, although the owner of that level will get a reward. Some spots require you to pay costs and you can manage your resources on a small player board that holds the cubes nicely in place. You can also train your dwellers using the familiar S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats allowing them to gain bonus when played in future rounds. Threats will come at the end of each round determined by dice rolls. To see them off you will need to place a dweller on them and roll off against them. This can be risky as your dweller might get injured. Fallout Shelter The Board Game is not only a great adaptation but also a surprisingly good gateway worker placement game in it's own right. Player count: 2-4 Time: 60-90 minutes Age rating: 14+