Prime Video announced on 23 October 2026, Fallout Day, that Fallout Shelter: The Experiment, its reality competition show based on the Fallout video games, will be released on 13 January 2027. The first four episodes will be available on Prime Video that day in more than 240 countries and territories.

Fallout Shelter: The Experiment: ten episodes between 13 and 27 January 2027

The date was revealed in a short video published by Prime Video: a Pip-Boy screen shows the show's logo, then the message "The world is ending. The competition is just beginning." The series has 10 episodes: after the first four on 13 January, three episodes will be released each week, up to the final one on 27 January 2027.

The format announced by Prime Video is as follows: ordinary contestants test their ability to survive the apocalypse in Vault-Tec's fallout shelters. They compete in drills, psychological dilemmas and challenges that test their morals, until a single vault dweller wins the final prize of one million dollars.

Prime Video first announced the project on 15 January 2026, under the title Fallout Shelter, with a casting call for contestants. The show is produced by Studio Lambert, the company behind The Traitors and Squid Game: The Challenge, in co-production with Kilter Films, the company of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, creators of the Fallout series, and in association with Bethesda Game Studios. Todd Howard of Bethesda Game Studios is one of the executive producers.

A man in a blue vault dweller jumpsuit, hands behind his back, facing two people seen from behind — Image published by Prime Video when Fallout Shelter was announced on 15 January 2026. © 2026 Prime Video

Fallout Day falls on 23 October every year: in the franchise's timeline, it is the day in 2077 when the bombs fall on the world. The show's name comes from Fallout Shelter, Bethesda's vault management game. As for the series, seasons 1 and 2 of Fallout are available on Prime Video, and season 3 is being filmed, with no release date announced.

On the collectables side, Funko released a POP figure of Vault Boy, the Vault-Tec mascot, in 2026, and Fallout 4 has been available in an anniversary edition since November 2025.

Funko POP 2026: Vault Boy, the Vault-Tec mascot (#1316)

Vault Boy is the Vault-Tec mascot: in the games, he appears on the company's adverts, manuals, products, holotape games and training videos. POP Games #1316 shows him in a blue and yellow jumpsuit, winking with one eye closed and giving a thumbs up. The figure measures 4.2 in (10.7 cm).

The other 2026 Funko POP Fallout figures are gathered in the selection below.

Fallout video games: Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition

Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition includes the 2015 base game, its 6 official expansions and more than 150 Creation Club items: weapons, power armour, building items, paints and extra homes. Prime Video had already mentioned it, along with Fallout 76 and the game Fallout Shelter, when the show was announced in January.

The full Fallout game library, from Fallout 3 to Fallout 76, is listed below, sorted by popularity.