ANNO: Mutationem

ANNO: Mutationem

Fair · RPG · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
11.3h
Value
$2.21/hr
Reviews
81% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
11.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
18.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.21
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
81%
6,629 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 / Radeon HD 7750, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

ANNO: Mutationem is an action-adventure game with RPG elements set in a cyberpunk world, featuring a unique mix of pixelated 2D & 3D graphic style with a rich, dark and bizarre plot.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement41% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$2.21/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length11 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds9 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $12.49. That was April 2026. It has been discounted 33 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 45 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dex ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Morbid: The Seven Acolytes ($24.99, scores 27).

Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 554 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

73% start to 41% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 23:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

tl;dr Adequate but lackluster gameplay. Interesting visuals. Story and writing overall atrocious. I want to like it but you're better off playing something else. If you're desperate for cool mixed graphics and a basic platforming experience with mostly okay bosses then this is the game for you. I just can't recommend it. Mechanics Weapons Light melee (2 types), heavy melee, and firearm (3 types) each have a button...
SparklingLimeadeNot recommendedafter 27hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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ANNO: Mutationem scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1368030/anno-mutationem
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperThinkingStars
PublisherThinkingStars
GenreRPG
Released2022
Achievements36