Plenty of games take place in the apocalypse. Not enough of them take place in every apocalypse. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden adapts a Swedish pen-and-paper RPG into a modern, XCOM-style, turn-based tactics game that explores an Earth ravaged by literally everything. The idea, like in so many other post-apocalyptic stories, is to build something out of the near-nothing that remains. The game wildly succeeds in this respect. Road to Eden bonds equal amounts of familiar gameplay to a few experimental ideas. The end result is a must-play that I hope has enough time to gain footing on this year’s best-of lists. Mutant Year Zero opens with two human-sized mutant creatures: an … Continue reading Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden Review