

This review is based on the Swedish edition of the game so a few terms might be different in the English version, but the games should be more or less the same. In Year Zero everyone are playing as mutated humans, and it is compatible with Mutant: Genlab Alpha which allows for mutated animals, Mechatron which is about robots and Elysium which is focused on regular humans.

Mutant: Year Zero is a traditional pen & paper RPG set in a grim post apocalyptic world, where survival is hard and dangers lurk in the ruins of our current day civilization.
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The current series of games have gone back to the roots of the franchise and is once more set in a post apocalyptic world, though it’s set hundreds of years before the first game. Outside of its home market the franchise’s first major appearance was with the Warhammer 40.000-inspired Mutant Chronicles series of games. The writers put their own twist on the post apocalyptic setting though, and added cute mutated animals and a more lighthearted tone. It was originally released in 1984 and was meant to be a Swedish take on the then popular RPG Gamma World, but for the Swedish market. The Mutant franchise has more history to it than most people probably realize.
