Amazon's next Fallout spinoff, Fallout Shelter, is open for casting

A Fallout Shelter reality series? Sign us up.

In the post-Squid Game streaming world, spinning off your popular prestige TV show as a reality series is likely something we're going to be seeing a lot more of. Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge has already been renewed for a third season, after all. Reality shows are cheaper and quicker to make, giving whoever produces them plenty of additional franchise #content to put into the world. It looks as though Prime Video has learned that lesson with the announcement of the first spinoff from the Fallout franchise. Are you ready to enter the Fallout Shelter?

Prime Video is turning the free-to-play management sim Fallout Shelter, first released on mobile platforms in 2015, into a reality competition series. There aren't many details yet, but if you know anything about the Fallout series, that shelter will certainly be no day in the park.

A description of the series from Prime Video reads, "Set inside Vault-Tec’s bomb-proof vaults, Fallout Shelter drops a diverse group of contestants into an immersive, high-stakes world inspired by the games’ signature dark humor, retro-futurism, and post-apocalyptic survival storytelling. Across a series of escalating challenges, strategic dilemmas, and moral crossroads, contestants must prove their ingenuity, teamwork, and resilience as they compete for safety, power, and ultimately a huge cash prize."

Fallout Shelter is described as a mix of physical, psychological, and social gameplay, driven by the Fallout narrative. According to Prime Video, Fallout Shelter will meet the "tone, world-building, and choice-driven ethos that have defined Fallout for over 25 years."

We know what you really want to know, though. How do you get cast to move into a vault? Casting is open now at FalloutShelterCasting.com. If you think you have what it takes, go ahead and apply before Feb. 16. However, you should know going in that the challenges will test players on Fallout's seven core attributes: strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility, and luck. So you'd better be SPECIAL enough for this particular task.

The show hails from Kilter Films — the production company run by producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy — and Studio Lambert, the reality production company responsible for The Traitors, the aforementioned Squid Game: The Challenge, and Undercover Boss. Naturally, Bethesda Game Studios and Amazon MGM Studios are also producing.