This comes across most blatantly through this version's low-resolution textures and blurriness, which can make playing the majority of Mutant Year Zero on Switch an exercise in frustration.

' Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is one of the more disappointing Switch releases that I have played recently, largely due to it being so severely hampered by the system's technical limitations.' And alongside other titles like Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Into the Breach, strategy games in particular just lend themselves so well to being picked up and played in short spurts, making them some of my favorite games to play on the Switch. Much like its characters, Mutant Year Zero is an interesting hybrid concoction of genres, even with some brutal levels of difficulty in places.Įver since it was announced for the Switch earlier this year, I couldn't help but find myself excited at the prospects of taking this challenging strategy game with me to play while either commuting to work, or to spend some time exploring its charmingly weird world before bed.

Combined with the game's bizarre premise and band of characters (which you gradually 'mutate' to gain new abilities and strategies), Mutant Year Zero largely plays with XCOM-like strategy and tactics combined with stealth mechanics, as players can roam around the world to try and gain the upper hand on their enemies and find loot before battle. From what I played of the game previously on PC ( and from our original review), it's the type of sleeper hit that players shouldn't, well.sleep on.įor those unfamiliar with the original game, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is a turn-based strategy game based on the tabletop RPG Mutant, where players take on the role of a pair of Scavengers (the mutants Dux and Bormin) on a post-apocalyptic journey through the wastelands of the world in search of a scientist named Hammon. As much as I've been looking forward to the big marquee releases that are coming to the Switch this year like Luigi's Mansion 3 and the upcoming Link's Awakening remake, one of the titles that I personally have been most looking forward to playing on Switch has been Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. While the game has been out for some time on consoles and PC, Mutant Year Zero still might have flown relatively under the radar for a lot of players out there, and undeservedly so.

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