For December 22, the Epic Games Store is offering up a tactical RPG from 2018, one which received generally positive reviews—Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. In the post-apocalyptic “Zone” where only mutants remain as survivors of the Red Plague and nuclear war, the players first take control of Stalkers Bormin (a humanoid boar) and Dux (a humanoid duck) as they search for Hammon. They are sent on this mission by their Ark’s Elder (home’s leader), as Hammon is needed to keep the Ark running.

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In their search for Hammon, they’ll come across fantastic Ghouls, Ancient weapons, hints at the promised land of Eden, and ultimately, the truth. Along the way, players can recruit others to their cause, including Farrow (a humanoid Fox), Selma (a mostly-human woman with a horn), and Magnus (a mostly-human man with magical powers). The story in Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden will keep players coming back, but the gameplay especially delivers for tactical RPG fans.

Controlling their squadmates in a group of three from an isometric perspective, players can navigate based on real-time when not in combat but in movement speed when in it. Players can kill stealthily to remain in real-time, plan ambushes, and use a variety of skills and abilities to position and prepare for fights, such as massive mutant jumps, aggressive charge abilities, and more—using a Skill Tree to unlock more and more of these. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden’s gameplay has been compared to XCom, and that’s rather accurate.

Combining turn-based tactical combat with real-time exploration, players are able to find artifacts and scrap to improve their gear and tools by traveling around the Zone. Overall, it doesn’t necessarily reinvent the wheel when it comes to tactical RPGs, but it does drive a really nice car as one. For fans who get Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden and enjoy its story, it has an expansion—Seed of Evil—that continues the story from where Mutant Year Zero’s main campaign ends.

It should be noted once more that Mutant Year Zero is available now on the Epic Games Store, and users will have until December 23 at 10 am CT to download it.

Epic Games Store users typically get a handful of free games every month.

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