A week intoEpic Games Store’s mystery game promotion, fans have gotten a little bit of everything fromShenmue 3toSecond Extinction. It’s only about halfway over, with more free games to come at every rotation. The games are confirmed every single day at 10 am CT and fans have 24 hours to claim them on the store.
For December 22, the Epic Games Store is offering up atactical RPG from 2018, one which received generally positive reviews—Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. In the post-apocalyptic “Zone” where only mutants remain as survivors of the Red Plague and nuclear war, the players first take control of Stalkers Bormin (a humanoid boar) and Dux (a humanoid duck) as they search for Hammon. They are sent on this mission by their Ark’s Elder (home’s leader), as Hammon is needed to keep the Ark running.
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In their search for Hammon, they’ll come across fantastic Ghouls, Ancient weapons, hints at the promised land of Eden, and ultimately, the truth. Along the way, players can recruit others to their cause, including Farrow (a humanoid Fox), Selma (a mostly-human woman with a horn), and Magnus (a mostly-human man with magical powers). Thestory inMutant Year Zero: Road to Edenwill keep players coming back, but the gameplay especially delivers for tactical RPG fans.
Controlling their squadmates in a group of three from an isometric perspective, players can navigate based on real-time when not in combat but in movement speed when in it. Players can kill stealthily to remain in real-time, plan ambushes, and use a variety of skills and abilities to position and prepare for fights, such as massive mutant jumps, aggressive charge abilities, and more—using a Skill Tree to unlock more and more of these.Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden’s gameplay has been compared toXCom, and that’s rather accurate.
Combining turn-based tactical combat with real-time exploration, players are able to find artifacts and scrap to improve their gear and tools by traveling around the Zone. Overall, it doesn’t necessarily reinvent the wheel when it comes totactical RPGs, but it does drive a really nice car as one. For fans who getMutant Year Zero: Road to Edenand enjoy its story, it has an expansion—Seed of Evil—that continues the story from whereMutant Year Zero’s main campaign ends.
It should be noted once more thatMutant Year Zerois available now on theEpic Games Store, and users will have until December 23 at 10 am CT to download it.
Epic Games Storeusers typically get a handful of free games every month.
