Mutant Meltdown Reviews

A strategy game that puts you in the middle of an apocalypse full of mutated creatures. It is a very interesting and challenging experience. The mechanics of creating camp and combat are exceptional and the entire setting transports the player to that atmosphere of desolation and despair. The game has it all, resource gathering, crafting, day/night cycle, a radiation system that increases the game's challenge even more, turn-based combat among many other pleasant surprises to discover while playing it. Mutant Meltdown is a complete experience of what would be a post apocalyptic world full of radiation and mutants. I highly recommend!

I like this game, the potential is there, Mutant Meltdown is a survival game more than anything, you start with 6 survivors , each has attributes and start with a profession, and some are more useful than others, you have to go explore as soon as possible and be careful of the radiation areas, if you take too much time, your guys hunger will decline and you won't be able to search for food on time. I've found a little town it was a good spot i though, made my camp a few tiles away from that town, my guys did a few runs town to camp and back, then a fat mutant that pukes appeared and fill the town with radiation with his vomit, with the town full of radiation that stop was no longer an option for scavaging. There was a van that I pushed next to my camp, after getting some gas for it at a gas station, went for a ride exploring and looking for some alternatives for my scaveging, some locations are in a very bad spots, where's too much roads and there's a lot of mutants. I did have a fun experience,

The game is a far too complicated piece of shit. Unwieldy design makes it unclear if you are doing what you are supposed to or not AND it's boring.

Mutant Meltdown is a game that surprises. Initially it looks like a simple turn-based game, but after a few rounds the game shows its true difficulty. In the midst of a large map that requires team and resource planning, in addition to managing various problems, both the search for the evolution of characters and the base, as well as mutants and contaminating areas, we find a survival game that is not at all easy and that will trap the player for hours, while he runs after supplies and resources for his base, as well as trying to avoid that the environment and enemies eliminate him. Mutant Meltdown is a fun game that's definitely worth having in your library.

This is a surprisingly enjoyable game. It's like a very simple Zombie based Civ game with a board that plays like a simple Battle Brothers (highly recommend if you enjoyed this!). This is a great entry to a few styles of games as it does elegance with simplicity providing a well put together experience that's worth experiencing.Let's start with the where this game falls short of being absolutely top tier. The game needs significant amount of QoL improvement, this is my main gripe and I probably clicked 5000 more times than I should have needed to. I'd like to have seen some more time spent on developing inventory management as it's lacking quite a lot of features, or maybe it just simple doesn't tell you magic key combo for it. Things like sorting/filtering/stacking should be better, some are there but not great and buggy. You need a cracking memory to remember the face to all the stats/perks you've assigned to that person in the group, something like names on cards would have helped or info on hover over to avoid you reopening so much. The avatars also don't change if you equip a helmet etc which would have also made this easier. There are quite a few bugs, some which will even require you to reload the game. There is also quite a lot of hitting spacebar in the game for next turn, often you'll be waiting for things, especially near the end when you're preparing to leave. There's also nothing to really prepare you for the 2 end game scenarios which are leagues harder than anything else before it, again it's a couple of rounds of hitting space bar for 200 turns while lobbing out molotovs, eating broccoli, minigunning like Rambo, and frying panning faces but ramped to the extreme. I'd liked to have had more survivors to manage as I used group size of 6 for my light military vehicles and only had 17 by launch time.Now, I DO in fact recommend this game. It's well thought out and well balanced (at least on Standard ;)). The graphics are good for the theme and the style will last for a long time to come. The mutations are a nice touch and it's good to see a game giving good and bad mutations, it's always a risk but sometimes it works out. The weapon skills, perks, and classes all fit together nicely and make a significant difference to how the game plays out for each survivor. I didn't min max any group and kept the rag tag half blind groups as I encountered them and still escaped on standard, maybe that was actually a good thing though although it does seem to be a benefit to have a melee/ranged/crafting group separate. I can't imagine how long you have to play to actually loot the whole map, at around 2500 turns I didn't even get to 2% on a city tile I'd been hitting the whole game so there's no shortage of loot. The different loot types in different places is also nice and encourages exploring to kit your crews out. If I did it again on hardest setting I think the need to craft all the miniguns and mods would come into play, although I went for building a fort city on my play through which also worked well. This variation in play style is quite a nice thing for such a simple game. Even the vehicles are varied and it's nice some are somewhat usable right off, and other need a garage built to repair, the vehicles also have nice variation from small cars to tanks.I hope the devs can get some polish into this game or their future titles. GoldenGod have clearly been experimenting with Hex tile games for a while and I really hope they can polish this up or add this polish to their next game as really this is excellent if you like the simple 4x type play style and can get over the bugs and lacking some QoL features.

Great game, civ meats fallout kinda worth the price for the hours it can give back, got me entertained that's what matter to me. Like the other guy said, if it had AAA graphics it would be worth 50 bucks.

Mutant meltdown sets in a world of mutants instead of zombies, game's brutal. You really have to make smart decisions otherwise, your survivors will die reallllly fast! I had a camp I believe all max out, could not find any schematics for crafting items, but I guess is WIP.   Overall I enjoyed it, especially when it started to rain as all radiation went away, but the rain itself was radiated, so I had to sit with half my survivors at the camp other half searching for loot on a location. You could move but not without getting radiation, if you get to much there's a mutation perks that happen like bad ones. The art style is pleasant enough and has a good ambient that puts in the mood. Thumbs up and waiting for more content from the devs to fill it up!

This game has a lot of potential, but it need MORE CONTENT, in all area but in particular in some form of npc interaction (discussion and the like), and it is also one of those games that would benefit hugely from heavy modding supports with easy-to-use modding tools and the like.

This game is just not fun - it is a chore. there are some really stupid random stuff that is quite frustrating, like you have just finally built your camp up and opps the last storm turned it radioactive. The game mechanics also need improvement like splitting up your troops, managing inventory. I did get a laugh out of the fact that your solar panels don’t produce power most of the time and you need to have the gas generation backup.

TL;DR 9/10 would eat broccoli again Now what you got here is a fun game. Kill mutants, eat broccoli, try not to get irradiated, mutate. die because you forgot to put enough broccoli in your pocket for everyone. Get ambushed by thicc exploding mutants and dumpy screaming mutants and then as you're limping home covered in goo with no broccoli some mutant outta Nightbreed jumps at you and starts beating you up. Die again. This time will be different. You build a home. You tie some string to cans and set up alarms. YOU BUILD A DANG OL WATER TOWER. You start farming the land like your grampappy did and you're far enough away from major cities and roads that you don't get bothered much. Everyone has broccoli and everyone is happy. Then one day you see a funky green cloud on the horizon. The next day there's two more, and they're moving closer. Panic. You start collecting all your broccoli and begin to move and find a new home. You turn around and see more green clouds coming from behind. You flee right into a dang ol group of mutants and they beat you up. They want your broccoli. I like this game.