When you enter a new area you’ll have direct control over each member of the squad and you are free to explore the area at your own pace. Gameplay is broken up into two distinct parts: exploration and combat. My favourite example of this is when you encounter a hospital filled with corpses that have succumbed to a plague and the group finds evidence to conclude that the victims were killed by a race of evil creatures called “stoo-dents”. There’s also a lot of genuinely funny moments where these characters ruminate on strange relics of the past that they come across.
These dialogue sequences feature some impressive voice acting, which makes these characters quite endearing and their adventure that much more engaging. Some of these details are revealed through fully voiced dialogue sequences between characters, others are revealed through various other notes and mementos left throughout the world for you to find at your own pace.Īs you explore the world in your squad of Stalkers, the characters in your group will discuss recent events or talk about new areas you’ve discovered. As you explore the world and encounter new enemy factions, further details will be revealed about the events that led up to the apocalypse and the various factions that managed to survive the wasteland. There’s a lot of corny pronouns used in that last paragraph, but the lore and world building in Mutant Year Zero is genuinely fascinating. The Ark is a ramshackle city constructed to provide refuge for those that survived the plague that wiped out most of humanity and is led by The Elder. You play as a group of Stalkers combat-trained scavengers that explore the remnants of a post-apocolyptic world for resources to ensure the continuing survival of the Ark. Think of X-Com: Enemy Unknown’s gameplay and strategy elements combined with a Gone Home style of wandering adventure.
Mutant Year Zero is a turn-based, tactical RPG with a dash of adventure game storytelling added to the mix.
The main point I want to get across in this review is that you should definitely play Mutant Year Zero, just not on the Switch. I’m going to do my best to get across how much I like the story, the gameplay, the world and the characters of Mutant Year Zero, whilst also contextualising the horrible graphics and poor performance issues that are unique to the Switch version. This review is going to be a rough one because I think Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is a great game, but the version released for the Nintendo Switch is extremely disappointing.
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