What Are The Best Games Like Mutant Year Zero?

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is an acclaimed tactical RPG that got positive reviews since it was launched.

With that said, this is not the only game to have succeeded in the sci-fi post-apocalyptic RPG genre.

Here we'll introduce 13 similar games (that are unique in their own way): 

13. Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

Encased offers a non-linear journey in a post-apocalyptic, science-fiction game. You will have the chance to explore, run and fight caravans, and join the C.R.O.N.U.S corporation in this world inspired by the first two Fallout games. This isometric universe focuses a lot on landscape details, which are worked extremely well, alongside with the carefully planned quests in this modern RPG. 

What Makes Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG Awesome:

• You will have to find strange and lost artifacts to upgrade your armor 
• Absence of a ‘class’ system – character skills are more versatile and balanced
• Convince people to follow your cause

The menu in this game lets you dialogue with an NPC, but you still can get access to the inventory, not losing sight of it.  

Enjoy the isometric view of beautiful landscapes, even with small details such as the concept of the forests, the valleys and the caves. 

12. Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role-Playing Game  

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role-Playing Game

Starting in the future, just right after a major nuclear war that destroyed most of the most important cities on Earth, you will have to explore the wastelands of this miserable world while trying to fix problems for your Vault, which are usually linked to the lack of resources due to the non-stop greediness of the people of the XXI century. 

What Makes Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role-Playing Game Awesome:

• Unusual rewards for creativity during quests 
• Karma points (morality system)
• You can recruit NPCs indefinitely

The interactions with NPCs are crucial during this game and will not only shape how you will finish the story, but also, they will determine certain awards you can possibly get. 

Fighting gets quite challenging during Fallout, considering that a character’s Perception will define the order of turns if they enter into combat.

11. Atom RPG

Atom RPG gameplay

ATOM RPG brings you a new story that takes place after the horrors of the nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the Western Bloc secluded the Earth in a miserable post-apocalyptic scenario.

You will interact with several shifty NPCs in this nonlinear game while being an agent of a secret society called ATOM. One day, they will call you to solve a recent mystery as usual, but you will end up discovering a big conspiracy against what’s left in this horrendous world. 

What Makes ATOM RPG Awesome:

• Non-linear game
• Inspired by the Fallout series
• Stat combination changes the way you go through the game

 This game doesn’t save any resources when it comes to gore and bloodshed, and it also offers a diverse range of weapons. 

As serious and collected this series is, you won’t lose the chance of seeing some comedic relief among its NPC dialogues. 

10. Underrail

Underrail gameplay

The Underrail is the name that the underground system of metro stations, and is also where the very few humans left are living in small states. They have conflicts and problems just like before the human race has gone extinct, but this time they also have to face harsh living conditions. This game takes place in a very distant future, and it also includes an exploration element, apart from combat. 

What Makes Underrail Awesome:

• Extremely difficult enemies (you need to spend a lot of time leveling up)
• You can use more than one build
• Crafting system 

The Underrail is a quite detailed and complicatedly designed game, even for its retro visuals. 

The inventory in Underrail is quite interesting: it’s separated in categories if you open it, but you can also choose some of the items and keep them in the main window. 

9. Wasteland 3  

Wasteland 3 gameplay

As a sequel to Wasteland 2, Wasteland 3 will also be featuring a turn-based combat RPG. 

Set in the freezing post-apocalyptic state of Colorado, you will be the last surviving member of your team, called Team November.

You will have to know what happened to the rest of your squad when trying to survive the punitive and depressing environment you are in. 

What Makes Wasteland 2 Awesome: 

• Synchronous and asynchronous multiplayer
• Moral choices impact on the storyline
• Vehicles updated from Wasteland 2

Wasteland 3 is also an isometric RPG with a huge level of detail, having been immensely praised because of the art it shown so far.  

The machinery shown in the game is extremely well researched, in order to show as much accuracy with real world machines as possible. 

8. Phantom Doctrine

Phantom Doctrine gameplay

Phantom Doctrine is a game that focuses on espionage. You are the leader of an organization called The Cabal during the Cold War.

It’s your responsibility to solve and discover mysteries, conspiracies, and avoid the terrible destiny that the world is about to experience in case this multifactorial conflict advances even further.

 What Makes Phantom Doctrine Awesome:

• Base management is a key element
• Assault-oriented combat  
• You (as well as the enemy) can bring reinforcements

You have an enormous variety of weapons to choose from, including pistols, revolvers, SMGs, rifles, LMGs, shotguns and sniper rifles. 

A lot of the uniforms you see in soldiers are inspired by historically accurate outfits.  

7. End State

End State gameplay

In End State, you are in charge of a mercenary company. It’s your job to command the tracking down of terrorists and criminals in a country that has been drowned in the horrors of war.

You will be able to choose how you progress, which quests you want to take, and what will you explore in order to get to the end of the story. What Makes End State Awesome:

•  You can customize your character
• Deaths include ballistic simulation
• The game give enormous importance to stealth elements

Hide in highly interactive environments that leave you a diverse range of options so you can hide however you decide while targeting enemies. 

You will be able to cautiously plan surprise attacks, or even make them as stealthily as possible in order not to be noticed at all.  

6. Phoenix Point  

Phoenix Point gameplay

Upcoming in December 2019, Phoenix Point takes place in the year 2022 after Earth scientists discovered an alien virus that started to spread on Earth.

Anything that gets in contact with the so-called Pandoravirus will awfully mutate into a horrendous creature. Your objective in this game is to save humanity from those who are already lost, and the virus itself. 

What Makes Phoenix Point Awesome: 

• Aliens of higher level can change shape and size 
• Depending on the result of a combat, aliens can get buffed or debuffed
• You need to make strategic choices to find resources

Reduce little by little the alien activity in a certain area by carefully planning your attacks before it’s too late. 

This series does not lose its time when it comes horrifying, hybrid-looking aliens; the graphics make an extremely good impression about how disgusting they can look. 

5. Space Hulk Tactics

Space Hulk Tactics gameplay

Working as an adaptation of the Warhammer board game, Space Hulk: Tactics lets you explore very exciting and interesting space battles, in which you will have to choose a faction to make it through the plot of the game.

Whether you choose the Terminator Space Marines or the Genestealers, you will need to make difficult tactical choices as you go through the variety of quests that you will be offered. 

What Makes Space Hulk Tactics Awesome:

• Card system to use special abilities in combat 
• Map creation tool
• Online competitive multiplayer

Massacre your enemies mercilessly with weapons that you can upgrade and custom for specific spaceships missions. 

Enormous bloodsheds are very common in Space Hulk Tactics, and the animated drawing style gives it a slightly comical effect.

4. Gears Tactics

Gears tactics gameplay

ears Tactics is a game that’s part of the Gears of War franchise. It takes place about 12 years before the beginning of the fight between humans and the reptilian creatures known as The Locust, in the first original game.

You will be able to have a customized team of your own to accompany you through extremely challenging missions in this science-fiction RPG prequel game. 

What Makes Gears Tactics Awesome:

• You create your custom team
• Purely tactical gameplay
• Keeps the dramatic and epic boss battles like the other GoW games

Enjoy the high quality of the graphics that Gears Tactics offers, alongside with the concept art of the humanoid-looking aliens, which is not left aside in this spin off either. 

Plan carefully how are you going to shoot your target, and if you are hiding, you can select which one will be the first to fall to make your ambush in the most effective way possible.  

3. XCOM 2

XCOM 2 gameplay

As a sequel of XCOM, this game starts with the aliens mercilessly ruling the Earth, trying to slave the human race and erase those who resist their terrorist Empire.

XCOM 2 will be, this time, the last barrier against aliens, and the last bastion of resistance. Your mission will be fighting side-by-side with the rebels and helping to expel those disgusting creatures from your home planet.  

What Makes XCOM2 Awesome:

• Five types of soldier classes
• Randomly generated maps for multiplayer fights
• Guerrilla combat system: you can ambush enemy patrols, loot them, and save your fallen allies 

You can tactically plan with your allies and imagine which is the best way to ambush those who are trying to stop the resistance. 

Fight against a very diverse and bizarrely designed set of aliens and its servants, while portraying mighty and highly technological armors and weapons. 

2. Gorky 17  

Gorky 17 gameplay

Disturbingly malformed creatures started roaring the streets of an old and secret Soviet city, called Gorky 17.

NATO is sealing the city to avoid any possible movement in and out of the location, in which there’s also a special laboratory that was previously found by them. Now, three NATO agents have to unveil the mystery behind the place to know exactly what is happening. 

What Makes Gorky 17 Awesome: 

• The well-done effect of an unsettling soundtrack
• Great 3D effects, especially for particle explosions
• You can betray and romance other characters

You can perform several actions, such as choosing weapons, directly in the same screen, without having to access the inventory. 

You can see that the 3D real-time rendered characters, textures and details in the different scenes you will take them through. 

1. Dead Age

Dead age gameplay In the setting of a zombie apocalypse, this indie survival RPG mixes the typical ‘shooting the undead’ topic with classical RPG features, such as the turns system and decision-taking moments that will be fundamental in the shaping of the plot. You will have to create alliances, heal the injured (that can be saved) and find food supplies in order to survive!

What Makes Dead Age Awesome:

• Permanent death system
• Six possible endings
• You can choose a pre-apocalypse profession (which will help you later)

Enjoy the different locations this game has to offer, some of them being warm and bright and some being shady dungeon-like sites, all surrounding the almost inevitable zombie apocalypse. 

You will always be able to decide who lives or who dies during the game, which will have a huge impact at the end. 

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