All in pursuit of a goal that you define – are you a savior or the harbinger of destruction? The great thing about BIOMUTANT is that choice is completely up to you. As you navigate and explore this vibrant world, you’ll find yourself battling environmental hazards, exploring and gathering gear, and engaging in battle after battle with the inhabitants of the world. Some seek to kill the world bosses and others seek to control them. This doesn’t mean the ideas of good and evil are clear cut to the player, however, as your actions influence the direction the world takes with the game delivering different endings and goals based on your alignment. Some have hope of saving this dying world and others seek to speed the process. The Tree-of-Life is slowly bleeding to death, root, and stem, and the various tribes of the world have split into different factions with different ideals and thoughts on how to move forward in this dying world. The lack of humans doesn’t mean the world is without its problems, however. Due to some sort of apocalyptical event, the world is a bit of a wasteland and the animals have evolved and mutated into weird, anthropomorphic… creatures. The world of BIOMUTANT is a world without humans in the picture. If you’ve followed the history of BIOMUTANT then you know what came since then was a series of missed release dates because the developers just didn’t have a game ready that they felt proud of and the producers, THQ Nordic, did not push for a release of an incomplete game – and I am so glad that we had to wait as developers Experiment 101 has given us one of the best games I’ve had the pleasure of playing in years.

Even in the demo, the controls felt amazing, the narration was humorous, and the abilities you got to use were bizarre, yet awesome to deploy in the heat of battle. Running only about 5-10 minutes long of gameplay I came back, waited in line, and played it again every day I was there. For me, the demo was the absolute star in a sea of demos and indie titles at PAX. I was originally over there to talk a bit about Darksiders 3 and the rep I was chatting with insisted I check out the demo for a game called, you guessed it, BIOMUTANT. I believe it was 2017 when I first heard about BIOMUTANT when I wandered over to the THQ Nordic booth at PAX Prime.

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