Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

But I don't really care, it was very enjoyable. I'm someone who loves a good singleplayer story game, and I would say this delivers. Maybe not so much on the story itself but rather the world it's set in. While the world is not super special being post apocalyptic it is undoubtedly unique. The level design combined with the really good soundtrack creates a nice atmosphere. I say this as someone who adores the Metro and Stalker worlds and atmospheres. The biggest problem with the game is that the combat is often tedious. It starts of very well with enemies having reasonable health, but then after just a few levels their health and numbers skyrocket. You can only have 3 stalkers on your team but you are very often outnumbered but enmies with more than twice your health. This makes the game feel very unfair early on and it almost made me give up. But I pressed on, and I'm glad I did. Because just like other hard and complex games, once you get past a though obstacle and learn more about the game the more enjoyable it gets. Many people compare this game to X-COM, as thats what its obviously copying/ripping off. It should be noted that the only thing thats copied is the combat, maybe some other concepts like the Iron-mutant permadeath mode. So as someone who has played XCOM 2 for 1100 hours let me just say that this game is very far from that, and your opinion on X-COM is likley not going to affect this game at all since it's very different. It's just the combat mechanics that is X-COM related. The game as a whole is pretty much an adventure game with you controlling the characthers exploring the world and and eventually having to combat enemies. It's slow paced and it's very nice. In conclusion I want the though combat to soften up to make the difficulty curve less steep. But even having that issue, I already feel like playing it again. So I obviously recommend this game. If you are still hesitating though, dowload the demo. It's what conviced me to buy it.

Admittedly, I should probably be considered somewhat biased since I have been playing Mutant since the late eighties. Mutant is one of the oldest Swedish pen & paper rpgs, having had a revival through recent remakes of the classic Mutant 2 "Efter Ragnarök" setting; the "Year Zero"/"År Noll" setting is the second release in this revived series and also the first to reach computers. The original Mutant was more or less a Swedish take on Gamma World, while the later Mutant 2, Mutant 2089, Mutant: Rymd and Mutant Chronicles went further and further away from those origins. "Year Zero" is a triumphant return to the Mutant roots, with all the quirks and almost pastiche sci-fi elements of the eighties. As someone who also lives in the real life area where the games takes place, it's good fun exploring both a landscape and a setting I am very familiar with. Highly recommended for Gamma World or GURPS fans, or just for a post-apocalyptic srpg romp in an old-school setting.

My favorite game of 2019, Fun and interesting character and a game play that made me want to keep returning. I've played through it twice which is something I rarely do. As a side not it runs surprisingly well on Linux via the Linux Steam app, without having done any frame rate comparisons, visibly I saw no difference. Charming lovable game.

its like playing old school Gamma World with your friends-you've got the one player who's seen Howard the Duck too many times, the player who's a huge TMNT fan, and there's always that guy who always plays as an attractive woman. the whole thing run by your capricious GM who, if you make the slighest mistake when you start combat, laughs at another TPK. You've got mutants, humorously misidentified gadgets, hacked together guns, and eventually, hi tech stuff that either kicks, or saves, your mutant butts. All the fun of the old pen and paper tabletop game, but you don't have to provide for pizza and Mountain Dew!