10 Worst Fallout Vaults You Definitely Don’t Want To Live In

is seeing a resurgence in popularity thanks to the new TV series set in the franchise available on Amazon Prime. While following the characters both in the show and the games, it's easy to get absorbed in exploring the Wasteland and forget about the Vaults created by Vault-Tec under the pretense that they'd be locations meant to keep people safe from radiation. Of course, the safety they were promised isn't what many Vault Dwellers received.

Vault-Tec designed most of its Vaults with the intention of performing unethical experiments on the inhabitants without their knowledge or consent. Vaults such as the Control Vault were the luckiest ones to be in because the inhabitants were left to survive without Vault-Tec researchers interfering and making survival a challenge. However, most Vault Dwellers ended up being the unlucky test subjects in brutal experiments instead.

Vault 81 is one of the weirdest Vault-Tec experiments in , mostly because the experiment that was supposed to take place in that Vault never happened. Even when it's first encountered, Vault 81 is unique compared to other Vaults because it's still active and filled with residents who are alive and well. However, if Vault-Tec's plan went as intended, Vault 81's population would've been sickly and reduced from its original number of inhabitants.

The intended experiment for Vault 81 would've easily made it one of the worst Vaults to live in. Vault-Tec wanted to use it to create a universal cure for diseases. This meant that the inhabitants would be continuously exposed to disease and then used to make a cure before the process is repeated with a new disease. However, the Overseer assigned to the Vault didn't go through with the experiment.

Vault 77 appears in, and it was one of many where a social experiment was run. The Vault was home to a single man and a bunch of puppets. Naturally, his mental state deteriorated, and the story about him became a legend that left slavers scared of the Vault because