Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Every market we collect.

Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1/day in the week to Jul 21 → 0.6/day in the week after.

For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.

Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.

Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.

Hours played at review time, across 849 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

[h1]A fun little adventure[/h1] [h2]Yet somewhat short and in many aspects underwhelming[/h2] Been struggling with giving this one a positive review, because somehow, I had some expectations from it, mainly because it was advertised as «if XCOM and FALLOUT had a child» and had a good reception when it came out. Well, it’s a bastard child at best, it lacks XCOM’s tactical depth and complexity, and the only thing it has in common with Fallout is the setting. But considering that the game was developed by a small studio and has some good aspects, for all the tactics enjoyers, is still worth it’s money. [h3]The good:[/h3] The game looks, feels and sounds great, really enjoyed the soundtrack and visual art design. The story is simple but engaging, the kinda predictable plot twist at the end still works, some neat worldbuilding details scattered across the game map adds to overall atmosphere. Postapocalyptic Sweden is beautiful. Voice acting is on the level, feels like a proper AA title, no bad performances. Character inventory and micromanagement is simple but effective, allows you to adapt to the current terrain and enemy types, and also looks cool. [h3]The underwhelming:[/h3] The gameplay – every encounter on hard difficulty basically comes down to this: You scout the area, you find and pick off stragglers, then pick your gear and skills for the big fight, endure, patch up, repeat. Is it “tactical”? Yes, it sure is. Does it get monotone and tiresome at a certain point? Also yes, but then the game suddenly ends on a cliffhanger, so, no big problem. Character skill trees, enemy types and gear lack variety. Also, some skills do not work properly – wings glitch near covers, your dude tries to fly up, but ends up facing the same wall he was leaning onto, kneecap shot getting canceled by a knockdown (I guess his leg healed from the fall), and you cannot eat corpses outside of combat (for balancing reasons I guess, but it still feels stupid, Bormin, why can’t you have a dead-meat snack when the bullets stop flying, is the threat of an imminent death the only thing that gets your ♥♥♥♥ hard?) so oftentimes I ended up initiating ambushes just to feed my mutants off some poor bastard at the other end of the map, and then immediately back off. Once the enemy spots you though, you’re locked in combat until everyone on one team is dead, no option to back down or retreat, do or die. Enemy detection works weird, sometimes they don’t see their comrades getting roasted 2 tiles away, sometimes they spot you from downtown, even though you use silent weapons and stuns. [h3]To sum it up:[/h3] All those little annoying QOL things make the game way less enjoyable, which is a shame, because when everything works, it works pretty well. So I would still recommend this game (If someone is still in doubt 6 years since it’s release), just don’t expect too much from it.