Fallout Shelter (2020) – Accessibility Teardown
by Michael Heron on 29/01/2021 in Accessibility Teardown, Board Game Accessibility
Table of Contents
- Version Reviewed
- Introduction
- Colour Blindness
- Visual Accessibility
- Cognitive Accessibility
- Physical Accessibility
- Emotional Accessibility
- Socioeconomic Accessibility
- Communication
- Intersectional Accessibility
- Conclusion
Game Details
Name
Fallout Shelter: The Board Game (2020)
Review
Meeple Like Us
Complexity
Medium Light [2.06]
BGG Rank
1543 [7.35]
Player Count
2-4
Designer(s)
Andrew Fischer
Buy it!
Amazon Link
Version Reviewed
English edition
Introduction
Fallout Shelter is about as shallow an implementation of the franchise as you can get and still meaningfully be worth the description. It’s a perfectly okay game – three stars of okay – but it feels like such a missed opportunity when far more exciting usages of the licence would have yielded much more spectacular results. It just feels like it was put together by people that understand the semiotics of the setting but have never really grasped its larger themes.
Still, you shouldn’t let us put you off if you fancy playing it. At least not in a review. What’s more useful is information on whether you can play it. That’s what we’re here for now. So let’s dig deep and hope we don’t hit a rich vein of radroaches.
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