Games like Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
If Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hard West, Phantom Doctrine and Blackguards 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric world, hilarious item descriptions and stealth planning matters. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is a stealth-focused tactical RPG from The Bearded Ladies, set in a post-apocalyptic world populated by mutated animals. It combines turn-based combat with environmental exploration, emphasizing squad management and tactical positioning alongside stealth mechanics. Players control a team of mutants navigating a dark, post-human Earth across a medium-length campaign, with a level-scaling system adjusting challenge to the squad. Reviewers and players describe the world as atmospheric and grim, noting the story proves captivating and that careful stealth planning matters in encounters. The 2018 release holds an 89% positive rating from over 6,400 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck, currently priced at $34.99 USD.
About Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden: A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
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Hard West
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Top pick for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
Phantom Doctrine
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.
Blackguards 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Third-strongest match for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Ranked #5 for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
WHY THIS
Shares turn based tactics and an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Ranked #6 for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Othercide
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Ranked #7 for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
Hard West 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Ranked #8 for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
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XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares turn based tactics and an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Reviewers of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Miasma Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares squad management, tactical positioning and an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Reviewers of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
From the creators of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden comes a beautifully crafted tactical adventure you won’t forget. Embark on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland torn apart by a savage force known only as the ‘Miasma’.
Wasteland 3
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Reviewers of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
BIOMUTANT
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
BIOMUTANT® is an open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu fable RPG, with a unique martial arts styled combat system allowing you to mix melee, shooting and mutant ability action.
X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Reviewers of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
Jagged Alliance 3
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Showgunners
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden cross-mention this title as a similar play.
As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~86% under Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~66% under Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
WHY THIS
Shares turn based tactics and an atmospheric mood with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Frequently asked about Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
- Does Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden run on Steam Deck?
- Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden cost?
- Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden are Hard West, Phantom Doctrine, Blackguards 2.
- Who developed Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden?
- Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden was developed by The Bearded Ladies and published by Funcom.
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