Sheltered
Panting, scared, the shelter airlock smashes down behind you. You wish you did not have to go outside, but you do. It would be easier to give up. But you don’t. The hardship, the hunger, the thirst. The fear…
Sheltered is an indie developed by Unicube, released 15 March 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android.
What Sheltered is
Sheltered is an indie game developed by Unicube and released in 2016. It was published by Team17. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sheltered casts the player in the aftermath of a nuclear war, guiding a single family that survives the initial devastation by taking refuge in an abandoned underground shelter they discover. Sealed away beneath a poisoned and hostile surface, the family must contend with the constant pressures of starvation, dehydration, radiation poisoning, and mounting stress as their supplies dwindle. Keeping everyone alive means expanding and maintaining the shelter, managing hygiene and morale, and rationing the scarce resources that stand between the family and collapse. When stocks run low, members are forced to venture above ground into a ravaged and randomly shifting world, scavenging for food…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 18 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Sheltered holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core CPU, 1 GB RAM and GeForce 7800, AMD HD 4600, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or above. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Sheltered launched on 15 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley and SuperHot. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley, SuperHot.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sheltered yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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