With a settlement known as the Ark as your main base, you will venture into the Zone in a perilous journey to find artifacts, knowledge and maybe, one day, the Eden of the legends. In the game, you will control a team of mutants embarked on a mission to explore a post-human world. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is a tactical turn-based strategy game developed by the creators of PAYDAY and HITMAN. Mutants, both humanoids, and animals struggle to survive in this desolated scenario. Nature adapts to the cataclysm and takes over the ruins, and the only remains of the annihilated human civilization are a bunch of creatures deformed by the effects of radiation that you can hardly recognize as members of the race that once dominated the world. Hyper Light Drifter and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden will both be available to download for free on the Epic Store from 15th August to 22nd August.A ravaged world is all that's left behind after a terrible nuclear war.

Mutant Year Zero's solidly designed turn-based strategy action is compelling enough in its own right, but it's the game's wonderfully engaging cast of animal misfits, on a journey across a post-human world, that really makes for something genuinely special. Based on the popular Swedish tabletop RPG of the same name, it's a post-apocalyptic yarn that plays out very much like a stealthy spin on XCOM. It impressed Eurogamer's Christian Donlan enough for him to whip out his pulsating Recommended stamp when it passed across his desk for review in 2016.Īs for Mutant Year Zero, that too is a bit of a treat. All of which unfolds across an enigmatic, beautifully crafted world that's ripe with mysteries and and secrets for the curious adventurer to discover. It's an utterly triumphant top-down slasher that mixes evocative exploration and puzzling with tough, evasion-based combat. Should your increasingly insurmountable library of video game freebies still not quite be tottering enough for your liking, Epic has revealed that Hyper Light Drifter and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden will be available for nowt on its store next week.įor those that need an introduction, Hyper Light Drifter is the work of developer Heart Machine, and originally launched on PC back in 2016.

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