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Biomutant

If the DNA of Biomutant sparks a re-evolution of some of the genre’s dull spots, perhaps we can forgive the dull spots present here.
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69% User Score Based on 11,445 reviews
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Biomutant is a single player open world role playing game. It was developed by Experiment 101 and was released on May 25, 2021. It received mostly positive reviews from both critics and players.

Buy Biomutant on PlayStation Store. From Experiment 101 and THQ Nordic, Biomutant is an open-world, post-apocalyptic RPG, with a unique martial arts styled combat system

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  • Biomutant features a vibrant world with beautiful graphics and engaging exploration mechanics, creating an immersive post-apocalyptic experience.
  • The crafting system and combat mechanics are praised for their creativity, allowing players to utilize a variety of skills and handcrafted weapons.
  • The game offers a whimsical atmosphere with quirky humor and unique character designs, providing moments of genuine charm and laughter.
  • Many players criticize the repetitive nature of quests and gameplay, leading to a lack of depth and engagement over time.
  • The game suffers from numerous technical issues, including glitches and performance drops, which detract from the overall experience.
  • The narrative and character development are often seen as shallow and predictable, with the constant narration overshadowing individual character personalities.
  • story
    5,464 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story in "Biomutant" has received mixed reviews, with many players finding it predictable and lacking depth. While some appreciate the whimsical and lighthearted narrative style, often delivered through a single narrator, others criticize it for being overly simplistic and repetitive, with quests that frequently boil down to fetch tasks. Overall, the game offers a colorful world and engaging gameplay, but the story often feels like an afterthought, leading to a disconnect between players and the narrative.

    • “The story is lighthearted and barely noticeable, but it has its moments.”
    • “The story is a mix of revenge and fight for the world, with a unique post-apocalyptic setting that stands out from the usual fare.”
    • “The story is engaging, and the narration is spot on for the environment, providing a whimsical charm that makes the journey feel like a storybook come to life.”
    • “The story is predictable but okay.”
    • “The story is rather dull with gameplay that's unnecessarily complicated.”
    • “The story is a cliche: 'the world tree is dying.'”
  • gameplay
    2,050 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay of Biomutant has received mixed reviews, with players praising its vibrant world, crafting mechanics, and combat system, which combines melee and ranged elements. However, many criticize the repetitive nature of quests, clunky mechanics, and excessive narration that disrupts the flow of gameplay. While some find the game enjoyable and fun, others feel it lacks depth and polish, making it a hit-or-miss experience depending on player expectations.

    • “The gameplay is fun; you will reunite animal tribes across an overpolluted world using a vast selection of skills, magic, wung-fu, and handcrafted weapons.”
    • “Biomutant is a game filled with vast exploration mechanics and really beautiful scenery.”
    • “The gameplay is solid and addicting, and the only thing it gets in the way of is a beautiful environment which interesting world building!”
    • “The gameplay is repetitive and spammy, with little to no feedback from enemies, the weapons don't feel fun or dynamic, the world is somewhat straightforward and childish and not very unique.”
    • “The gameplay feels very repetitive after just 2 hours.”
    • “The gameplay is janky at best and not satisfying at all.”
  • graphics
    1,618 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics of Biomutant have garnered mixed reviews, with many praising the vibrant art style and stunning visuals that create an engaging post-apocalyptic world. However, some players criticize the graphics for feeling dated or inconsistent, likening them to earlier console generations, and note issues with optimization and performance. Overall, while the aesthetic appeal is a highlight, it is often overshadowed by gameplay and narrative shortcomings.

    • “The game dazzles with its bold art style, blending vibrant colors and sweeping landscapes into an unforgettable post-apocalyptic canvas.”
    • “The graphics are stunning and the world feels alive, a very cool take on a post-apocalyptic setting.”
    • “The art direction leans heavily into a whimsical, almost storybook aesthetic, with vibrant color palettes and exaggerated designs that set it apart from more grounded post-apocalyptic games.”
    • “The graphics are awful.”
    • “The graphics look outdated, animations are so bad it hurts the eyes, there's a lot of graphical glitches in the world, drawing distance is a funny joke, grass and shadows spawn a few meters before you on ultra settings.”
    • “The graphics are very average considering the time it was released and how long it sat in development for, and the game is still quite buggy.”
  • music
    376 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game has received mixed reviews, with many players appreciating its atmospheric qualities and ability to enhance immersion, particularly during exploration. However, a common criticism is the repetitiveness of the soundtrack, with several users noting that only a few tracks are available, leading to a lack of variety that can detract from the overall experience. While some find the music beautiful and fitting for the game's aesthetic, others feel it becomes monotonous and fails to elevate key moments, particularly during combat.

    • “The visuals, dialogue, and incredible orchestral music build a type of emotional immersion that you rarely see in video games.”
    • “The music and sounds are also well-chosen, supporting the atmosphere of the post-apocalyptic world.”
    • “The developers have created a stunning world that, together with the soundtrack and aesthetics, create a wholesome, fantasy-like atmosphere.”
    • “The thing that really drew me away from this game after I bought it was that while exploring there was only one background song. I know that sounds bad, but it feels like nothing is new, and even in different areas of the map, the song was still the same.”
    • “After a while, the constant looping of the very limited tracks will have you turning the music off and switching to your personal music.”
    • “The soundtrack is very limited, and the same music will play in the same type of areas, which gets old quick.”
  • humor
    349 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor in the game is described as quirky and varied, with many players appreciating its lightheartedness and whimsical elements, such as funny character designs and absurd situations. While some found the narrator's dialogue amusing and engaging, others felt it could be repetitive or detracted from the overall experience. Overall, the game successfully blends humor with gameplay, offering moments of genuine laughter amidst its colorful and imaginative world.

    • “The way you mark your quick travel is, get this, by peeing on specific posts, which is funny because you're an animal!”
    • “But it's not just the variety that won me over: the subtle humor and whimsical situations peppered throughout the game often brought a smile to my face.”
    • “The game is beautiful, the exploration is good (not great), the crafting system is funny and if you're a 'completionist' then you will probably enjoy this game.”
    • “It's like playing The Stanley Parable but not funny.”
    • “Like they tried to do this David Attenborough inner monologue that's supposed to be funny, or these completely out of left field flashbacks attributing to a Kung Fu Panda-esque origin story that completely break away from the initial immersion.”
    • “Most of the times it tries to be funny it's just not; it's not funny to any age.”
  • optimization
    269 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The optimization of the game has received mixed reviews, with some players praising significant improvements on current-gen consoles and stable performance on high settings, while others report severe performance issues, including frame drops and stuttering, particularly in densely populated areas. Many users noted that despite the game's appealing graphics, it suffers from inconsistent optimization, leading to a frustrating experience for those with varying hardware setups. Overall, while some players enjoy smooth gameplay, a substantial number express disappointment over the game's optimization shortcomings.

    • “Noticeable current-gen improvements: the game's performance and visuals are significantly improved on current-gen consoles, making it a great option for players with PS5 or Xbox Series X.”
    • “The graphics in this game are amazing, decently optimized (stable 100fps on max settings with my RTX 3070).”
    • “It's an insanely well-optimized game that runs like butter and it's so easy to get immersed into the environment for hours on end.”
    • “This game is horridly unoptimized, one of the least optimized games I have ever seen in my life.”
    • “One of the most glaring issues with the game is its poorly optimized and buggy game engine.”
    • “The game is poorly optimized; I have a 1660 Ti and an i7, and at low settings, it gets 30-60 fps a lot of the time, often hovering around 40 fps.”
  • stability
    256 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's stability has received mixed feedback, with many players reporting a variety of glitches and bugs that can disrupt gameplay, particularly during quests and cutscenes. While some users have experienced minimal issues and found the game to run smoothly, others have encountered significant problems, including game-breaking bugs and performance drops. Overall, the game appears to lack polish and may require further updates to address these stability concerns.

    • “The game runs great, and everyone will have an opinion on the narration and design choices.”
    • “I also greatly appreciate playing a game that is almost bug free, looks fantastic and runs like a dream on day one.”
    • “It's also refreshing to have a game release that's well optimized and bug free.”
    • “Lack of polish: the game still feels rough around the edges, with some minor glitches and awkward transitions between gameplay and cutscenes.”
    • “Players have reported numerous glitches, frame rate drops, and game-breaking bugs that severely impact the gameplay experience.”
    • “The absolute worst game ever especially for players that bought it early and received a broken and buggy game that got no updates after it released, it's buggy, it's boring, it's bad.”
  • grinding
    231 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The reviews indicate that the game features significant grinding elements, particularly in crafting and leveling up, which many players find tedious and repetitive. The lengthy tutorials, constant narration, and similar quest structures contribute to a frustrating experience, especially for those seeking a more engaging gameplay loop. While some players appreciate the grindy nature and the crafting system, the overall sentiment leans towards the game being overly tedious, particularly in its later stages.

    • “Overall it's amazing being kinda but not too grindy, and that's much better than most games out there.”
    • “- Not very grindy; allows you to get good supplies very easily without hours of gameplay.”
    • “Reminder that Valheim, the 5 million sale critically acclaimed game, has a gameplay loop of 'mine until your inventory is full, carry it back on a boat, then go and mine until it's full two more times to make your set of gear, then go and get food to kill the boss.' This game has no worse of a repetition, and in fact requires no grinding whatsoever from my experience.”
    • “I've been playing for almost 7 hours over a couple of months now and I still have a long way to go to make my own full weapon loadout. It's hard to come across good weapon parts, so in that respect, it can get a little grindy.”
    • “While the customization options and skill tree are well thought-out, the overall progression can feel a bit tedious, especially in the later stages of the game.”
    • “The combat grew tedious within the first hour.”
  • character development
    132 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Character development in the game has received mixed reviews, with many players praising the unique and creative character designs while criticizing the lack of depth in character development and storytelling. The narrator's role often overshadows individual character personalities, leading to a feeling of disconnect and a lack of meaningful relationships. Overall, while the character designs are visually appealing and quirky, the narrative and character development aspects leave much to be desired, resulting in a game that feels more style over substance.

    • “The character designs are beyond fantastic, and the unusual mutations/psi powers are quirky and distinctive.”
    • “Biomutant is a vibrant, beautiful open-world filled with some amazing character design and enemy variation.”
    • “The open world and character designs are beautiful.”
    • “The story and character development is done rather poorly in this game.”
    • “So far it seems pretty bad, there is absolutely no character development, all of the characters are voiced by the narrator and it gets pretty boring.”
    • “And oh my god the character development is so cheesy and lame, I know it's meant to have like a 'family friendly' kind of vibe about it, but I feel like I'm in the middle of a Disney movie, when a lot of the dialogue consists of stuff like 'I love you mooma!', 'I'll follow you anywhere mooma!', and to have it all narrated by the one voice makes empathizing with characters difficult, it really takes away from their individuality.”
  • atmosphere
    114 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The atmosphere in Biomutant is widely praised for its vibrant, colorful graphics and immersive sound design, which includes atmospheric music and environmental effects that enhance the overall experience. Players appreciate the unique post-apocalyptic setting filled with quirky creatures and diverse landscapes, although some criticize the minimal voice acting and repetitive elements that can detract from immersion. Overall, the game offers a charming and whimsical atmosphere that invites exploration and self-reflection, despite some mixed opinions on its execution and narrative delivery.

    • “A perfect blend of atmospheric tones and dramatic flair that pulls you deeper into this fractured world trying to heal.”
    • “The developers have created a stunning world that, together with the soundtrack and aesthetics, create a wholesome, fantasy-like atmosphere.”
    • “It's a breath of fresh air in this horrid COVID-filled atmosphere.”
    • “The atmosphere the game delivers is as bland as the story.”
    • “I remember when the first ever gameplay came out, I was so excited, looked like it could be a fantastic open world adventure game, but the world is so empty and so dull, every place looks the same, and even though the crafting and looting are decent, they're shadowed by the weak combat and by the comical and childish atmosphere the whole game has.”
    • “There's no atmosphere, I feel like I'm wandering around for the sake of wandering around.”
  • replayability
    111 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Overall, the game's replayability is a mixed bag, with many players noting that while there are multiple endings and character customization options, the lack of significant changes in new game+ and repetitive gameplay diminish its long-term appeal. Some players appreciate the impact of choices on the narrative, suggesting a degree of replay value, but many feel that the game ultimately lacks depth and variety to warrant multiple playthroughs. In summary, while there are elements that could encourage replay, such as different character builds and endings, the consensus leans towards low replayability due to a lack of engaging content and meaningful differences in subsequent playthroughs.

    • “The choices I made along the way influenced the course of the narrative, adding an element of replayability that I can't wait to explore.”
    • “Just a fun game to play, and customizable characters and builds allow for greater replayability, as well as multiple ending paths.”
    • “Each region of the world feels unique and intriguing, and every aspect of the gameplay itself can be altered, creating a huge replayability value.”
    • “The game is short and, unlike most soulsborne titles that feature it, the new game+ feature does not really add much replayability value, especially if you explored a lot during your first playthrough.”
    • “Sadly, the game to me doesn't have much replay value as in using the new game+ feature because your mutant in ng+ is way too powerful to even have fun smashing enemies designed for a level 3 when you're level 30.”
    • “Overall, it could be a fun game casual, but for the $60 price point, I can find other games cheaper with more complex systems providing more replay value.”
  • emotional
    111 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The emotional aspect of "Biomutant" receives mixed reviews, with some players appreciating its colorful, whimsical world and heartfelt moments, while others criticize the lack of depth in the storyline and character development. Many find the narrator's constant commentary detracts from emotional engagement, making it difficult to connect with the characters or feel invested in the plot. Overall, while the game offers a charming aesthetic and some emotional highs, it often falls short in delivering a compelling narrative experience.

    • “There’s a sense of optimism woven throughout, even in the face of apocalyptic decay, which gives the game a distinct emotional flavor compared to grimmer contemporaries.”
    • “The visuals, dialogue, and incredible orchestral music build a type of emotional immersion that you rarely see in video games.”
    • “It will also bring you from laughter to sadness and all through the emotional range with the storyline.”
    • “I never got to finish the game, but honestly I can't bring myself to waste more time to be disappointed with the game mechanics and just boring storytelling.”
    • “What is this? So disappointed, the narration is so annoying, ranged guns are overpowered, you don’t even need to do melee. Really generic boring story, environment looks good, game runs nice and smooth. I don’t recommend this game; you have backed the wrong devs.”
    • “Hmmm, I really don't want to thumbs down this because the idea is cool, but it feels utterly unfinished. From janky animations, boring story, and buildings with the exact same layouts, it ruins it. The narration is a cool idea, but I found myself wanting to skip through dialogue just to get it over with.”
  • monetization
    33 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The monetization aspect of the game has drawn significant criticism, with many players feeling it resembles a cash grab, especially given the disparity between the game's advertising and its actual content. Users express frustration over misleading marketing, particularly regarding character customization and gameplay features that were not delivered as promised. While some appreciate the absence of microtransactions, others remain wary of potential future in-game purchases, reflecting a broader concern about the trend of unfinished games being sold at full price.

    • “If no strings attached collectathons appeal to you, then pick it up. If microtransactions piss you off, then pick this up.”
    • “Some of the core systems could use some work, but I can see where they put a lot of time in, and games without microtransactions deserve support.”
    • “Game feels like a cash grab when it could have been so much more.”
    • “Do not buy this game; it's a cash grab. Nothing they promised is in this game. Complete waste of money and time.”
    • “People are tired of spending 'full game price' on unfinished games with day one patches and day zero microtransactions, or games that are more extended betas than anything.”
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Biomutant is a open world role playing game.

Biomutant is available on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Windows and others.

On average players spend around 16 hours playing Biomutant.

Biomutant was released on May 25, 2021.

Biomutant was developed by Experiment 101.

Biomutant has received mostly positive reviews from both players and critics. Most players liked this game for its story but disliked it for its stability.

Biomutant is a single player game.

Similar games include Avowed, The Technomancer, Forspoken, ELEX, Gedonia and others.