Amazon is making a Fallout Shelter competitors actuality TV present

The second season of Amazon’s wonderful Fallout present is at present airing, however the firm is already seeking to increase its programming across the in style franchise. Prime Video has greenlit a unscripted actuality present titled Fallout Shelter. It will likely be a ten-episode run with Studio Lambert, the crew behind actuality tasks together with Squid Recreation: The Problem and The Traitors, as its main producer. Bethesda Recreation Studios’ head honcho Todd Howard is hooked up as an government producer.

Amazon’s description of Fallout Shelter is: “Throughout a collection of escalating challenges, strategic dilemmas and ethical crossroads, contestants should show their ingenuity, teamwork and resilience as they compete for security, energy and in the end an enormous money prize.”

It appears becoming that the producer is identical as Squid Recreation: The Problem, the place a present critiquing capitalism is changed into a contest about profitable cash. A actuality present sounds just like the form of factor you’d discover in a Fallout recreation aspect quest accompanied by pointed commentary about greed somewhat than an exercise individuals of the Wasteland would take severely. Possibly the brand new collection might be an fascinating mixture of survival abilities and darkish humor that feels true to the Fallout ethos. However, and I say this as an enormous viewer of actuality reveals, I’m not holding my breath.

The identify echos the free-to-play cell recreation Bethesda launched in 2015. Fallout Shelter lets individuals construct and enhance their out Vault-Tec residence, managing the assets for a rising cadre of underground survivors. It appears fairly seemingly that there might be some sort of tie-in between the sport and the present, however any particulars about that may pop up nearer to when this system is able to air. It is at present casting, and no launch timeline has been shared.