Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Worth it · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $10.49.
- Length
- 13.1h
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 580 / AMD Radeon HD 7870, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.74. That was September 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wandering Sword ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Hard West ($19.99, scores 35).
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 978 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Extremely shallow mechanics and limited gameplay options. You absolutely must play by stealth, slowly picking off enemies instead of engaging full on. However, the game doesn't clearly communicate this until it's too late as it takes a steep difficulty turn around 8 hours in, at which point there are not enough resources to spec your team out for stealth kills (because it's been misleadingly easy enough up till now...
I have just completed this game and was left...dissapointed. What I love: The atmosphere and graphics The destruction which really does affect gameplay tactics wise The story (up until the end) The combat and thought provoking tactics required What got on my nerves: Inability to sell guns (yes you can scrap them, but the scrap value is very little) Serious lack of gun variety Trader has very little to offer and...
While the story is kinda stereotypical, the gameplay was very addictive & I really liked testing how far I could go with the stealthy approach.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/760060/mutant-year-zero-road-to-edenReviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.
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