Well, the huge brand helps.

Which is probably why what was even at launch ultimately a somewhat outdated Farmville-like got so much attention.

Downloads have always been a weird metric for mobile games. I've downloaded this game on maybe five or six devices during this decade, but I'm pretty sure I haven't played it al tall in the past nine years and six months.

Solid mobile game where it was entirely possible to use save editors to modify the amount of paid tokens and lootboxes you had.

Also there were fun tricks you could use to avoid base damage via strategic application of elevators.

I'm going into Act III and holy shit has it been a ride. Flawless game with amazing story and graphics. Highly highly recommend! Even if you don't buy it outright it's on XBox game pass. Definitely support the developers if you can though!

Hell yeah. Played the pre-release demo and it was great

It's great idea and it's fun at first but once you have every building unlocked it's just grind. Also the unique characters are just money grab.

They did make one that's the same-ish game except it's Elder Scrolls.

It's called Elder Scrolls: Castles and you can set up your own lineages and such. It's pretty cool imo.

I didn't play much, but I remember I had stationed the strongest warriors near the entrance so anyone invading would be gunned down or chased everywhere.

No, they did not. I picked it up again a few months ago after playing it for a while years ago. Stopped playing it after a few days of intermittently opening it because the algorithm constantly raided me and moving the dwellers around to properly defend was still a nightmare. Stopped being fun real quick so I remembered why I quit originally, and quit again.

Oh my god I had completely forgotten about that game!! I vaguely recall being taught some exploit that trivialised it but it was so fun to come back to every now and again.

Yeah, it's a loot box lock for sure. Even with the lunchboxes though the legendaries aren't common enough. The only reason I know that is because at one point there was an edited save vault you could get that had unlimited lunchboxes and robot boxes.