Sheltered is a survival strategy game set in a gloomy, post-apocalyptic reality, in which our goal is to protect the life and health of a family hiding in an underground nuclear shelter. The game is the debut project of the 3-person Unicube studio, realized thanks to the support of the crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The publisher’s duties were assumed by the well-known, among others from the Worms series, Team 17, as part of its own support program for independent authors.

Story
The plot of the game presents a grim vision of the world after a nuclear catastrophe. People hiding in underground shelters suffer from limited resources of food and water, and any going outside may end up with death at the hands of hungry, mutant beasts or other people – ready to do almost anything to survive. In addition, prolonged isolation does not have the best effect on the psyche, arousing a feeling of loneliness in a person, increasing fear, suspicion and a tendency to violent reactions. In such circumstances, the main character of the game has to take care of a family of four, trying to ensure its safety and take care of basic life needs.

Key features

• Family comes first: Keep your family alive and protect them from the ravages of the harsh post-apocalyptic world above.
• Make the shelter a home: Maintain your shelter, keep it secure and habitable and make sure that the family have enough resources to survive.
• Customisation: Your family is unique to you; you decide their names and their appearance
• Healthy body, healthy mind: Your family’s mental and physical well-being means everything. Keep them happy and they will thrive.
• Bigger, better, faster, stronger: Nurture your family members and they will become better versions of themselves in every single way
• Bloodline: The children are the future. Make sure there are plenty of them.
• Crafting system: Create comforts for your family’s shelter and weapons for combat
• Exploration: Send out your family to explore and gather resources for everyday living and crafting
• Vehicles: Make exploration quicker and safer
• Dynamic encounter system: Your family will meet many folk outside of the shelter.
• Some are friends, some are foes. Some are mutants.
• Turn-base combat: For those that cannot be reasoned with, violence can be used as a last resort. Your family may depend on it.
• Taking in strangers: Recruit outsiders and integrate them into your shelter life.
• Steam Leaderboards and achievements: Show the world you have what it takes to survive
• Cloud saves: Keep your family close and never lose your progress