The Sheltered
Top-down adventure about deciding who shares your limited shelter supplies
Benjamin Famiglietti · Published by SA Industry · Released Apr 23, 2015
- Reviews
- Mixed
- 64% of 53
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 1
- daily peak, Nov 8, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- Unknown
- no patch notes on Steam
What is The Sheltered?
This single-player, top-down adventure follows a survivor with a backyard fallout shelter as the government prepares to bomb an outbreak zone. You explore for supplies, solve puzzles, deal with monsters, and decide which survivors and animals to let in. Your choices shape the story's ending.
For you if...
- +you like stories shaped by difficult moral choices
- +you enjoy exploring for supplies and solving puzzles
- +you prefer a bleak setting with scarce resources
Not for you if...
- −you want a story without difficult decisions
- −you dislike searching for supplies between story decisions
What players say
64% of 53 reviews are positive
Players praise the moral choices about whom to shelter and the decisions around scarce supplies.
Screenshots and trailer
The Sheltered system requirements
Minimum: 0.5 GB RAM, 0.4 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run The Sheltered?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7 (32-bit/64-bit)
- Processor
- Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz equivalent or faster processor
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 400 MB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7 (32-bit/64-bit)
- Processor
- Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz equivalent or faster processor
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 400 MB available space
Does The Sheltered have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does The Sheltered run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Text only: English.
Does The Sheltered use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam