BIOMUTANT

Good news for my fellow Linux users - the game works well on Linux. Despite a few freezes and crashes, I was able to properly play for several hours straight without interruption. What I liked: - Good save system. Even when it crashes, you are losing 1-5 minutes of gameplay. - Fights. I used all types of weapons all the time and that kept it fun, but it definitly can get boring, especially because psi powers and guns are just so OP. - Sights. It looks ok. What I hated: - Lectures. The game is one large bizarre pro vegan anti corporate propaganda. Even before the main menu loads it starts lecturing you on how corporations killed the planet. One of the main bosses is referred to as Meat Eater. He has to be killed because he eats meat. Apperantly only herbover animals evolved after the apocalipse, except for that one meat eater who must be killed. - Narrator. This is the worst part of the game (even after you set it to 0) It either talks to you like to a toddler or it comments how some specific area was destroyed by the EvilCorp: "They made explosives here. Until it blew up in their faces!". - Fetch quests. You keep getting quests that force you to travel 2500 meters somewhere, then press 1 button a few times or talk to 1 NPC, then go to a different direction 1500 meters, press 1 button again and then backtrack. - Bugs. Even though for the most part I didn't come across any really bad bugs, the game reset all my resistances to 0 after I built them up to 60-80%. I also sometimes randomly got exp while just standing around and doing nothing. - Puzzles. They are at a level that only children 3-5 will find them interesting. You are pretty much only matching 2 colors to each other in all puzzles. - Extreme morality. You are either Jesus or you are going around murdering cute little furry animals for fun. In addition it doesn't matter which path you chose, you still get the same ending. - Awful dialog. There is no voice acting, which makes every dialog slow and painful.

Having finished my first playthrough (about 55 hours), I feel confident to finally write a review. As of Version 1.3.0, there's still a few bugs around, mostly sidequests not progressing or clearing properly from the log. Nothing gamebreaking and will likely be fixed before long. It runs well enough on my aging hardware. This is an open world game, with light RPG progression and various unlockable mounts. Combat uses mechanics vaguely similar to the Devil May Cry franchise, but much simplified - you get special moves for all weapons (including unarmed combat) and can seamlessly mix between shooting and melee. Turning up the SFX helped a lot to make things feel more punchy, and with a bit of tinkering with the (rather nice) crafting system, enemies can be knocked around quite satisfyingly. The game world, along with the Narrator, can best be described as a whimsical kung-fu post apocalypse, emphasis on "whimsical". This is a post-human world, where furry sentient critters describe stuff using weird names. I found it endearing. It obviously irritated some other people to the point where they typed very angry reviews. The Narrator is an avuncular figure that dispenses (imperfect) knowledge from the past, dad jokes and Confucian wisdom in equal measure. He can be turned off as well. Storywise, it's a story about trying to avenge the murder of your parents and saving the world, both accomplished through nicely choreographed boss fights with lengthy buildups. There's a lot of sidequests that unlock vendors, mounts, loot and quirky items, most found organically by exploring the world. The vibe of the game is entirely wholesome, like aforementioned games from sim pler times. There's no moral grey areas, no edgy content beyond "pollution is bad, mkay" (and seriously, that is about as arguable as "water is wet"), no blood and guts and no squalor. And as opposed to a certain other post apocalyptic franchise, the roofs have no holes and the communities are kept neat.

I love playing open world sandbox where exploring every nook and crany is always rewarded and the crafting is very satisfactory although expensive, the puzzles are simple yet com[licated, but I am having a lot of fun playing it

I am going to say that at the beginning of the game, it had too many tutorials and the story has too many handheld go here do this moments, but around level 4-5 which is 1-2 hours of the game, it clicks you can see the game for what it is and if you try combinations in the combat it becomes so rewarding. PS: Disable Dinamic Resolution and Vsync to improve performance, setup the FPS limit if you need and change the FOV (I like my FOV around 90 to 110).

After about 25 hours of gameplay and about 20% of the game completed, I feel I can give this game an honest review to combat all the undeserved negativity. This game is a beautiful open world action/adventure RPG that give you incredible freedom to play your character any way you want. Other than the first 1-1.5 hours of the tutorial, the game essentially lets you chart your own path. While the story is something that has been seen and done before, it is presented in a unique way in the form of the Biomutants that inhabit the world. Giving an old cliche a new charm. The combat system is very enjoyable and fluid. From melee to ranged to "magic" attacks all meshed together if you choose. Or you can focus on only 1 or 2. The choice is yours. It is presented by default in a sort of superhero style with words like BAM and SMACK and slow motion dodges and kill shots all rolled together. But these options can be turned off if you prefer an uninterrupted and more "serious" style. The sound and music are fantastic. The effects during fighting and the sounds of the environment really add to the feeling of the world. And the music helps you genuinely FEEL what is currently happening on screen. Many reviews complain about the narrator or that the game isn't voice acted. While true, the other mutants don't speak a known language, they are voice acted differently in their language of Gibberish. As for the narrator, the options menu allows you to chose the frequency with which he speaks. The gameplay itself is nothing revolutionary, hence the 4 stars. The quests are the typical type you would find an open world RPG style game. Fetch, kill, explore, find etc. They all make sense in the world and are quite charming when it comes to how the character explain Old World concepts like TVs, phones, washing machines and the like. Exploration is where the game shines. The world and it's different biomes are fun to roam and give a fresh unique take on tried and true RPG concepts.