Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

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User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 346 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 246 out of 346
  2. Mixed: 58 out of 346
  3. Negative: 42 out of 346

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  1. Zloybig
    Dec 6, 2018
    6
    Have played this game for 10 hours, great characters, great sound, and jokes. Not too many skills in the skill tree, hope developers can add additional, zones are also not so big. The game similar to XCOM. Stealth regime is nice. Is necessary to reload the weapon.
    Nothing innovative or special, just pass through the game.
  2. howlatthemoon
    Dec 5, 2018
    5
    In a word: Disappointing

    Pro's Wonderful art style and soundtrack Great characters Witty writing Polished proven formula for combat Effective fusion of stealth mechanics with turn based strategy Cons Underwhelming progression system Limited skill trees/upgrades Limited replayabilty Short Mechanically baron Minimum settings/options Suffers from a lack of ambition Wait    In a word: Disappointing

    Pro's
    Wonderful art style and soundtrack
    Great characters
    Witty writing
    Polished proven formula for combat
    Effective fusion of stealth mechanics with turn based strategy

    Cons
    Underwhelming progression system
    Limited skill trees/upgrades
    Limited replayabilty
    Short
    Mechanically baron
    Minimum settings/options
    Suffers from a lack of ambition

    Wait for sale
    It’s a cool little title, but I can’t in good faith recommend a game that I literally dove to the computer to refund, before it was too late.    … Expand
  3. gruia
    Jun 25, 2019
    6
    simplistic yet efficient. many fail to offer this much.
    writing is decent, story is mediocre, gameplay is decent, world building is decent.
    an ok activity
  4. Tomle1202
    Aug 16, 2021
    7
    Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is only nice when you play by its rules, which ultimately make everything feel a little bit too restrictive.
  5. dr_yev
    Aug 26, 2019
    6
    It is pretty and the combat is fun at first. However, it descends into a boring lengthy slog with not much combat or power variety. Sure, you have to be very careful picking off units silently. Sure, you have to account for the increasing bullet sponginess of even trash enemies as the game progresses. These things make the game difficult but not in a good way. I had plenty negativeIt is pretty and the combat is fun at first. However, it descends into a boring lengthy slog with not much combat or power variety. Sure, you have to be very careful picking off units silently. Sure, you have to account for the increasing bullet sponginess of even trash enemies as the game progresses. These things make the game difficult but not in a good way. I had plenty negative of things to say about XCOM games but at least the environments did not get old. Here, the whole overgrown wasteland thing wears thin pretty quickly. There is also very little environmental interaction possible. The combat is of course in better shape than the fallout games from 20+ years ago but it does get very boring.

    The lack of meaningful choices or even interaction with NPC further make this a chore to play about half-way through. This should either have been a proper RPG or a short and sweet shooter (maybe half the length?). There's nothing stopping a game from being both but it's better to get one thing right than two things wrong.    … Expand
  6. andrezero
    Jun 13, 2019
    6
    Buenos gráficos y ambientación, llevo varias horas jugando; sin embargo, siento que le falta mucho en armas, habilidades, enemigos e historia. Falta mucho de lo que hace a un buen RPG, se queda muy corto lo que lo hace a mi parecer algo tedioso. Mucho potencial, solo se necesitó pulir y meter contenido.
  7. SilverOrlov
    Jan 28, 2023
    7
    Honestly tried, but "didn't imbue". Interesting visual style, my favorite XCOM concept. Not a bad story line... But those flat jokes, no interesting narration, foolish cool-down skill mechanics, no cut-scenes.
    Part of the game I passed through, but then I realized that I did not want to finish it.
    Not bad game, but not interesting for me.
  8. Soullex
    Nov 30, 2022
    7
    Çok iyi bir XCOM. Yani silah kullanılar turn based RPG'lerin hepsi XCOM değil mi?
  9. watchm824
    Dec 11, 2019
    7
    Nothing special, but I liked it. The game is a little short, as for me. I love this genre, it’s a pity that worthless games rarely come out.
  10. UglierOrlock
    Feb 19, 2020
    6
    good game, but I hate games where you have to repeat the same place over and over to be able to advance in the game. to progress to level 20 I had to repeat 3 times all locations.
  11. Deaden
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    - Cool game for spending some time but game play variety is too low. Each maps like a box you need to move to next box. I wish map areas would be more bigger than small boxes. Also ARK is only an image where you need to click to open another image screen. This kind of a game play things are providing very dull experience.
    - It's too cheap made game behind nice character designs and    - Cool game for spending some time but game play variety is too low. Each maps like a box you need to move to next box. I wish map areas would be more bigger than small boxes. Also ARK is only an image where you need to click to open another image screen. This kind of a game play things are providing very dull experience.
    - It's too cheap made game behind nice character designs and cinematic intro. Oh man, this game could be much better. Sorry but My points will be moderate for this game.    … Expand
  12. ErayTellezi
    Nov 18, 2020
    7
    Karakterleri ve hikayesi ilgi çekici ama öyle aman aman değil. İzometrik bakış açılı turn based oyunlara giriş oyunum. Bazı açılardan sevdim ama çok daha iyi olabilirmiş.
  13. JackPlack
    May 5, 2022
    6
    Too linear and too much stupid dying/healing logic. Story and characters are good but everything with wrong gamerules and tactic elements. Some world map should been standard for some travelling, otherelse it looks like some tiny, claustrophobic game.

Awards & Rankings

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#79 Best PC Game of 2018
43
#43 Most Discussed PC Game of 2018
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#4 Most Shared PC Game of 2018

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 57 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 57
  3. Negative: 0 out of 57
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Mar 5, 2019
    85
    Mutant Year Zero is a turn based strategy role playing adventure set in a world after the nuclear war. It captures the player with its main characters, world building, good sense of humor and an unforgiving combat. It has its flaws in the form of replayability, and lack of skill depth, but the overall impressions are very positive. Recommended even for the people that are not too much into this genre, and for those who are, it’s a no brainer.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Feb 8, 2019
    62
    You have to spend hours crawling around, looking for lone enemies that you can gang up on and take out without raising the alarm – because there’s no way you’ll be able to fight everyone at the same time. To put it bluntly – it’s not fun, and Mutant doesn’t have anything else to offer. [Issue#235, p.46]
  3. CD-Action
    Feb 6, 2019
    70
    Due to quick levelling up and relatively small map Mutant Year Zero feels smaller than it actually is, but still don’t expect more than 12-15 hours of moderately engaging gameplay that unfortunately slows down towards the end. [01/2019, p.80]
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