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.

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. Maybe you will find your answers there.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. That’s where truth awaits, the stories say. Maybe one day you will find the Eden of legends, the ancients’ haven in the middle of hell. To survive, you and your companions must venture out to explore the Zone. Scavenging through the remains of civilization are the Mutants, deformed humanoids and animals alike, searching for salvation or just something to eat. Mushroom clouds rose from east to west before the dust settled. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden > General Discussions > Topic Details. For the first time since 1945 nuclear weapons were used in armed conflict. Extreme climate change, global economic crisis, a lethal pandemic, and increasing tension between old and new superpowers. Mutant Year Zero Road to Eden, a tactical adventure game that combines the turn-based combat of XCOM with a real-time stealth and exploration of a post-human world reclaimed by nature… and Mutants.

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