The Sheltered
Benjamin Famiglietti · 2015 · Adventure, Indie, Action
PC
Mixed67% · 43 📉 Recent reviews down 59%
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About The Sheltered
STORY
"The Sheltered" is a top-down adventure game with an emphasis on exploration and decision making.
Players assume the role of a survivor in a world plagued by a deadly outbreak. The government announces their plans deal with monstrous infected by means of nuclear weapons. The plan: to bomb the area and eradicate everything. Lucky enough, there's a fallout shelter in the player's front yard - and enough food and water to last.
Now other survivors want in.
PREMISE
The main story begins once the hero has collected enough supplies to last himself in the shelter.
When other survivors show up, the player can decide who to bring into the shelter and who to leave outside. Survivors range from children to experienced adults that can offer the player help. The player can also bring animals into the shelter. Deciding who to save is the main premise of the game and will ultimately effect the ending.
However, it's not enough to simply invite another survivor into the shelter. Each survivor requires additional supplies to last their stay. While the player only has enough for himself, he is free to explore the land and search for additional supplies. This is the adventure aspect of the game.
Combining old school graphics and simple gameplay with modern storytelling and a multitude of choices, "The Sheltered" pushes players to sacrifice their characters safety for their character's morals.
FEATURES
- A captivating non-linear story complete with over seven different endings.
- Difficult decisions and characters that remember your actions and act accordingly.
- A moody, apocalyptic landscape, free to explore and littered with secrets.
- Dozens of challenging puzzles with multiple solutions… and consequences.
- A variety of monsters (among other things) to outgun, outrun or outwit.
- A haunting soundtrack composed and preformed by Max Ablitzer
"The Sheltered" is a top-down adventure game with an emphasis on exploration and decision making.
Players assume the role of a survivor in a world plagued by a deadly outbreak. The government announces their plans deal with monstrous infected by means of nuclear weapons. The plan: to bomb the area and eradicate everything. Lucky enough, there's a fallout shelter in the player's front yard - and enough food and water to last.
Now other survivors want in.
PREMISE
The main story begins once the hero has collected enough supplies to last himself in the shelter.
When other survivors show up, the player can decide who to bring into the shelter and who to leave outside. Survivors range from children to experienced adults that can offer the player help. The player can also bring animals into the shelter. Deciding who to save is the main premise of the game and will ultimately effect the ending.
However, it's not enough to simply invite another survivor into the shelter. Each survivor requires additional supplies to last their stay. While the player only has enough for himself, he is free to explore the land and search for additional supplies. This is the adventure aspect of the game.
Combining old school graphics and simple gameplay with modern storytelling and a multitude of choices, "The Sheltered" pushes players to sacrifice their characters safety for their character's morals.
FEATURES
- A captivating non-linear story complete with over seven different endings.
- Difficult decisions and characters that remember your actions and act accordingly.
- A moody, apocalyptic landscape, free to explore and littered with secrets.
- Dozens of challenging puzzles with multiple solutions… and consequences.
- A variety of monsters (among other things) to outgun, outrun or outwit.
- A haunting soundtrack composed and preformed by Max Ablitzer
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
RPG Maker game about managing a shelter and a group of survivors, where you make moral decisions and gather resources ✅The only positive aspect of this game is the moral choice system, which can influence the course of the game ❌Virtually no save points (only one), which is extremely frustrating ❌Gameplay reduced to tedious resource gathering ❌Slow character movement, which prolongs and makes returning to the death location irritating ❌Lack of consistency in events (e.g., illogical character behavior and plot) ❌It’s easy to get lost in the mazes, which further reduces the enjoyment of the game ❌Repeating the same sections after death (grinding and backtracking) ❌ High price ❌❌ Verdict: [b] Terrible [/b], [strike] Bad [/strike], [strike] Mediocre [/strike], [strike] Decent [/strike], [strike] Good [/strike] , [strike] Very Good [/strike] (Rating scale for short games, retro indie simulator games and similar) [quote]If you'd like to see more of my reviews, you can find them on my curator page:[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45994324/admin/reviews_manage/]CuratorKingViking[/url] and on my group: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/CuratorKingViking]GroupKingViking[…12 found this helpful
RPG Maker strikes again! The Sheltered is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. The generic fantasy anime fan fiction here has been replaced with a craptastic fanfiction from someone who played too much Fallout and decided it would be cool to rip off the entire game concept, only with a crappy RPG Maker adventure game instead of a crappy RPG Maker JRPG. But what should we expect from known asset flippers? As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset…5 found this helpful
The Sheltered, developed by Benjamin Famiglietti and published by SA Industry, is a compact post-apocalyptic survival adventure that centers on isolation, resource scarcity, and morally charged decision-making. Set in the aftermath of a catastrophic outbreak followed by nuclear devastation, the game casts you as a lone survivor who has taken refuge in a backyard fallout shelter. What initially feels like salvation quickly becomes a complicated responsibility as other survivors begin appearing at your door, seeking safety from the wasteland outside. The game frames survival not simply as a matter of collecting supplies, but as a continuous negotiation between compassion and pragmatism. From a gameplay perspective, The Sheltered unfolds through top-down exploration and basic survival management. Players venture into surrounding areas to scavenge for essential resources such as food, water, medical supplies, and tools. These excursions are inherently risky, as venturing too far or staying out too long can lead to dangerous encounters or resource depletion. Returning safely to the shelter with supplies is only part of the challenge; managing those supplies effectively becomes equally …
7.5/10. A brutally efficient and atmospheric survival-management sim that trades base-building spectacle for claustrophobic, desperate resource calculus. It's less about thriving in the wasteland and more about the psychological toll of rationing the last can of beans while protecting your family from the horrors—and each other—in a metal box underground.
A solid survival game with pixel inserts, where you manage a post-apocalyptic shelter. You need to gather resources, decide who to let into the bunker, and make moral choices. It's fully satisfying for its price.
nice game
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