Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden
Wasteland and Fallout aren’t the only isometric tactics RPGs to ever take place in the weird post-apocalypse. A few years ago, we got Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden, a game that features an oddly satisfying mixture of stealth and strategy gameplay as well as a mutated cast of characters, like an anthropomorphic crossbow-wielding duck. Adapted from a pen-and-paper tabletop RPG, Road To Eden places much more emphasis on exploration than other strategy games, which tend to focus on the intricacies of combat. You maneuver your party around environments, scrounge for supplies, and engage in stealth to either surprise roving bands of enemies or completely avoid them. In action, it’s a lot like the acclaimed XCOM series, and the whole thing plays like a refreshingly fucked-up road trip. You can grab Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden for $14, or pick up the deluxe edition with its Seed of Evil expansion for $18.
