Ever wanted to see how you’d fare in a Vault-Tec experiment? Prime Video is making that a potential reality, as a new series titled Fallout Shelter has been announced alongside a casting call open to anyone. Currently set for 10 episodes, the series will film this summer and focus on the seven core attributes of the Fallout games.
The show will be produced by Studio Lambert, the same studio behind Squid Game: The Challenge, and will see contestants compete in “an immersive world across a series of escalating challenges for a huge cash prize”. Despite sharing a name with the 2015 mobile game, the show seems unrelated beyond both being products of the same video game series.
What is Fallout Shelter?
Fallout Shelter is the newest reality show based on a dystopian future created by a mega corporation (following Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge, based on the hit show Squid Game, and Prime’s Beast Games, based on our very own ongoing dystopia). According to the casting website, the show will focus on contestants, known as dwellers, living in a top secret vault and competing against each other in a set of games.
These challenges will be based on “the seven core attributes from the Fallout world”, which are “strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility, and luck”. Fallout Shelter will not only stress the series’ iconic S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes, but test “their loyalty and alliances” as the focus of the show will be “power dynamics, popularity, and social strategy”.
What exactly these challenges are isn’t yet clear, but the reality show will be able to pull from decades of Fallout games and the Fallout show for inspiration.
How can I sign up for Fallout Shelter?
Since the upcoming reality show has open casting, anyone can fill out an application on the casting call site right now. The casting window closes on Feb. 15, 2026, and filming is currently set for June of this year.
The application for Fallout Shelter is in-depth, asking questions like which faction applicants identify with (NCR, Minutement, Enclave, etc.), examples of times applicants have displayed the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes, and how lucky applicants think they are. There’s also a self-described “huge cash prize” to raise the stakes of the show, but the amount has yet to be announced.
