Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Fun game, especially since it's 8 years old. Nice story as well.

Being a casual gamer didn't help me enjoy the game. You need to be hyper focused and calculate exactly how to proceed before starting a fight that you still may lose. I bought that game years ago and got discouraged by its difficulty, I tried again yesterday and went a little further but yet, all the fights I see in my path now has a close to 0% chance of win for my style of play. Do not recommend if all you want is pew pew at monsters...

I see people comparing this to Xcom. This feels like a substandard imitation of Xcom with none of the careful design or tactical excitement. 80% of the time is spent walking around and looking for shiny things. 15% of the time you're heavily outnumbered so you need to stalk and take out enemies one-by-one, which gets repetitive after the first two times and you still need to do it dozens more. The remaining 5% is SOMETIMES enjoyable. The characters move at a realistic human speed. Imagine walking through an entire world at that speed. It wears you down. Leveling up system isn't fun even on hardest. You can only use 3 characters at a time. To get gear off of a character and on to another takes myriad clicks and button presses. I ended up always using the same characters. There are few interesting choices in the game. You're always following a beaten path. The map is pretty restrictive on where you can go and what you can interact with (close to 0%). Unlike other tactical games environment plays only a minor role in tactics. Speaking of tactics, there isn't much involved anyway. Quality of life isn't great. You're searching for these shiny scraps in a dark unlit world that contains a lot of shiny things. The game never failed to give me a headache after 1-2 hours of continuous playing. Would not recommend.

Changing my original review (kept original text below). I absolutely loved this game. Gameplay is solid, and enjoyable. I fell in love with setting, atmosphere and soundtrack. An absolute masterpiece in world-building! However, 10 hours in I hit a game breaking bug where I was unable to proceed to the metal fields, effectively soft-locking me out of the game. This is an issue that has been widely reported on several forums and discussion boards now for several years, and still seems to persist to this day (with no way to resolve it, beyond effectively redoing massive parts of the game in hopes that it works when you encounter it again - no even guarenteed). The fact that I enjoyed it this much makes this even more frustrating. Original Review Below: Had this in my library for a while now, only got around to playing it recently. Regret that I took this long to get around to it. Fantastic game.

Прошёл половину на харкоре с последующим понижением до обычки, не могу себя мучить больше, все негативные отзывы полностью оправданы. Запланированные промахи даже после загрузки сохранений, мало оружия, линейность из точки А в точку Б, малое разнообразие врагов. Единственное графон понравился. При чём повелся на демо и подумал какая классная игра. Лучше скачайте из зеленного магазина если так приперло, если выдержите половину игры (ладно, хотя бы 5 часов), можно и купить по скидке, но мне игра вообще не зашла после 4 часа игры, сижу и думаю зачем я в это играю.

This is game pretends to be a tactical bla-bla. It's not. It's a stealth game, and a boring one at that. Most of the "stealth" is just waiting.

Finished main game and DLC. To summarize to some other reviewes there is only one correct way to play, kill guys who are walking away from the group. Use the same 3 silent weapons all the game, knock out enemy if critical hit didn't work.

The trailer makes it look like its XCOM with some stealth mechanics, it is NOT. This is an unforgiving stealth game where you MUST waste time save scuming until you've kill all the additional mobs (with silenced weapons) that you are able to before actually starting normal combat. You will always be lower level than and outnumbered by your enemies. Granted the game becomes a little more bearable after leaning some mechanics(like using the shotgun in melee range on the unbearably tanky reviving bot to push him away and making him waste his turn) however that does not make it any less annoying when every fight is a struggle to survive(lowest difficulty btw), and after winning you have to waste more time checking every nook and cranny for ANY recourses you might have missed because you WILL be using everything you find efficiently or you will die. If you are a masochist with a lot of free time, then this is the game for you, if not, go play Shadowrun instead.