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Amazon Is Making a Fallout Shelter Competition Reality TV Show (engadget.com)

(Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:30PM (BeauHD) from the sign-of-the-times dept.)


Amazon is [1]expanding the Fallout universe with Fallout Shelter, a ten-episode reality competition show where [2]contestants face survival-style challenges and moral dilemmas for a cash prize . Engadget reports:

> Prime Video has [3]greenlit a unscripted reality show titled Fallout Shelter. It will be a ten-episode run with Studio Lambert, the team behind reality projects including Squid Game: The Challenge and The Traitors, as its primary producer. Bethesda Game Studios' head honcho Todd Howard is attached as an executive producer. Amazon's description of Fallout Shelter is: "Across a series of escalating challenges, strategic dilemmas and moral crossroads, contestants must prove their ingenuity, teamwork and resilience as they compete for safety, power and ultimately a huge cash prize."

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> [...] The name echos the free-to-play mobile game Bethesda released in 2015. Fallout Shelter lets people build and improve their out Vault-Tec residence, managing the resources for a growing cadre of underground survivors. It seems pretty likely that there will be some type of tie-in between the game and the show, but any details about that might pop up closer to when the program is ready to air. It's currently casting, and no release timeline has been shared.



[1] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/23/10/24/0114238/amazons-live-action-fallout-series-will-start-streaming-in-2024?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

[2] https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/amazon-is-making-a-fallout-shelter-competition-reality-tv-show-190151855.html

[3] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/fallout-shelter-competition-series-prime-video


What's the moral dilemma (Score:2)

by Valgrus Thunderaxe ( 8769977 )

involved in building a fallout shelter?

Re: (Score:3)

by znrt ( 2424692 )

the game gives you incentives to make some ruthless decisions for the sake of efficiency. that's endgame sort of stuff, though, you don't need to if you play casually. for me the game stopped being fun way before reaching endgame.

Re: (Score:2)

by Mr. Dollar Ton ( 5495648 )

The Soviet shelters allegedly had a sign on the outside of their bast doors, which was only visible when they were shut down from the inside.

Apparently it said "If this door is closed, try to find cover in the terrain folds of the nearby area."

Fallout Shelter, the reality show... (Score:2)

by sinkskinkshrieks ( 6952954 )

Now with 30% less violence than the Stanford Prison Experiment, 20% less unsustainably than Biosphere 2, and 100% less hanky-panky than Big Brother.

Re: (Score:2)

by quintessencesluglord ( 652360 )

Ya, don't really see the point beyond IP branding. I mean sure, sexier than throwing money at the homeless and watching them battle it out, but it's not like you'll be battling rad-scorpions.

Maybe it will allow someone their 15 minutes, but unless you are deciding whether to exile someone because disease, how is this Fallout?

Re: Fallout Shelter, the reality show... (Score:2)

by liqu1d ( 4349325 )

To be fair I bet the only reason they're not doing homeless battles is some legal barrier rather than moral

Re: (Score:2)

by PPH ( 736903 )

I think Seattle has the copyright on bum fights.

Re: (Score:2)

by PPH ( 736903 )

Fallout supplied by Sandia National Labs.

bit late to start working on your fallout shelter (Score:2)

by OrangeTide ( 124937 )

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