Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Mutant Year Zero Beginner Guide — Read Prices First

Mutant Year Zero hands you two mutants, a real-time stealth phase and a mutation screen it barely explains. First runs tend to come apart in the same two places — points spent without noticing that prices differ per character, and stealth phases that try to clear more than silenced weapons can. Here is the opening in order: what to check before spending anything, what the stealth phase is actually for, and which choices stick.

Mutant Year Zero Characters — Who To Bring and Why

Mutant Year Zero gives you six characters and lets you field three. Comparing their stats to choose is close to pointless — everyone has 12 movement, 0 armour and 10 throw range, and health is either 8 or 6. The real differences are in pricing. Each character buys the same shared mutations at their own rate, and with only one Minor, one Major and one Passive equipped at a time, those prices decide roles far more firmly than the stat sheet does.

Mutant Year Zero Mutations Tier List — Price Decides

Mutant Year Zero prices mutations per character, and it never tells you. Skull Splitter costs Dux 1 point and Magnus 9. Silent Assassin costs Farrow 5 and Magnus 11. The effect is identical; the bill is not. Because you can only equip one Minor, one Major and one Passive at a time, what you can buy cheaply decides your squad far more than what is theoretically strongest.

Mutant Year Zero Stealth Guide — Only Three Silent Guns

Mutant Year Zero asks you to thin a camp out before the fight starts. What it does not tell you is how hard a ceiling it puts on that: the base game ships exactly three silenced weapons, and all three deal 4 damage. So your stealth phase is not limited by patience or positioning. It is limited by how many enemies have 4 or less effective health, and by critical chance — which is why Silent Assassin and the choice between crossbow and pistol matter more than they look.