There are some simple RPG elements, where you can upgrade the mutations of your character, but they all share similar skills that are laid out in a different order on their tree, making the upgrade path dull. Other games employ side-quests, puzzles, extended dialogue sequences, base-building, or upgrading, but Mutant Year Zero has almost none of that. As stated before, other games that have used this combat have added other elements to break things up. Perhaps the biggest problem with Mutant Year Zero is that the gameplay feels thin.
Let me make a funny assumption about how it was used before the apocalypse and then wink at the audience.” When it’s not clumsy, it’s boring.
The stakes are never properly established, the characters never get a chance to breathe, and almost every conversation is an exposition dump or someone saying “Look at this weird, antiquated device. So much time is spent in long combat sequences, that any momentum from the story quickly dissolves, leaving the narrative in an increasingly stale state. While the concept of the story isn’t bad, its execution is lamentable with the pacing being the real culprit. Their lives change when one of the most important Stalkers, Hammond, goes missing and they’re sent to try and retrieve him, finding the scattered members of his crew along the way and enlisting their help. The duo makes their living as Stalkers, adventurers who venture out and explore the ancient ruins of civilization, bringing back necessities needed for the Ark to survive. It tells the story of two mutants, anthropomorphic characters Dux and Bormin, who live in the supposed last remaining city for humans and mutants - the Ark. Players spend their time either exploring a post-apocalyptic wasteland, searching for supplies to stay alive, or clicking their way through the challenging combat sequences. Mutant Year Zero either lacks these secondary mechanics or has under-developed them and thus it feels stretched thin, employing a strange structure with too few original ideas to keep it engaging.ĭeveloped by The Bearded Ladies Consulting, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is described as a tactical adventure game by its publisher, Funcom. The grid-based tactical combat employed here has been used effectively in many other games like X-COM: Enemy Unknown, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and Wasteland 2 - but all of those games are supported by deep RPG mechanics, puzzles, engaging stories, multiplayer, or other mechanics that help support the core gameplay. Mutant Year Zero is definitely that kind of frustrating game, but it also feels incomplete.
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