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Unique, truly open-ended fantasy adventure in a strange, new world. Use battle or cunning to change the world, served by your own army of custom-made mutant monsters. Over 80 zones to explore and 50+ hours of gameplay. Multitudes of skills, abilities, factions, treasures, and servants to create.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen is a crpg, rpg and dungeon crawler game
developed and published by Spiderweb Software.
Released on February 24th 2021 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.
It has received 409 reviews of which 385 were positive and 24 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 8.39€ on Steam with a 50% discount.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 64-bit Vista or Later
- Processor: 1.2 GHZ
- Graphics: 256 MB VRAM
- Storage: 400 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: 12.6
- Processor: 1.2 GHZ
- Graphics: 256 MB VRAM
- Storage: 400 MB available space
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Geneforge 1 – Mutagen is the remaster of the old-school CRPG Geneforge 1 from 2001. Compared to the original, the UI and graphics look much better now. A few skills and mechanics were changed (mostly for the better), and the story was slightly expanded. However, you can’t change your character’s appearance anymore, which I find a bit disappointing. Maybe I'm biased, but I’ve never played a Spiderweb Software game I didn’t like. This one has all the things I expect and love in a CRPG: strategic combat, exploration, an interesting world with a good story, and steady character progression. The story/lore is a big part of why it works for me. There’s no classic “good vs evil“ here. Every faction has its reasons and often solid arguments for being the way they are. Choosing a side never feels clear-cut. Of course, you can just ignore everyone and do your own thing. The game doesn’t punish you for that, apart from missing some good items. Every NPC can die, even important ones and quest givers, though they’re harder to kill. And if fighting isn’t your thing, you can finish the whole game with stealth and diplomacy as long as you avoid the more enemy-heavy zones. Quests in general can often be solved in different ways. Higher difficulties like Veteran and Torment are there if you want them. (Side note: The Geneforge Saga would also make for a good book) At the start you choose between three classes. The Guardian is melee-focused, the Agent leans toward stealth, and the Shaper summons creatures. I enjoyed playing the Shaper the most. You can build a small group/army of creatures (up to eight, if I remember correctly) and each one has different skills and spells. It‘s important (especially on higher difficulties) to learn about enemies’ weaknesses and use the right creatures to counter them. The game starts in a small enclosed zone on a barred island. Each zone can have up to four exits at its edges, marked by blue ground. Walking onto one of them brings you to the world map. The direction you leave from determines which new zone gets unlocked. There are roughly eighty in total, and you’ll revisit many of them while doing quests. Fast travel is only available after a path has been cleared, which can happen in different ways: simply passing through, killing all hostile creatures or a boss, or finishing a quest. On the world map, cleared areas show up in green and uncleared ones in red. Hovering over them also tells you if a quest is there. You can move around a zone freely, but once an enemy sees you, the game switches to a grid and shifts into turn-based combat. At the start of each round you get a set amount of action points, so you have to carefully plan where to move and what attack to use. Fighting requires a lot of strategy. Enemies can flank or ambush you (or leap straight at your weak caster). There are many spells, weapons, potions, and buffs to work with, so fights rarely feel the same. The inventory system is simple but clever. You only have one character with an inventory (your creatures can't carry stuff), so it fills up fast. But you have a junk bag where you can put everything you want (unlimited). You can only take stuff out of it when you're in a friendly village though, so be careful what you put in there. You can also sell everything in the junk bag at once at a vendor instead of selling items one by one. The save system deserves a short mention. You can save (normal+quicksave) whenever you want outside of combat, but the game also creates an autosave every time you enter a new zone. That actually saved me several times from soft-locking myself. There are zones where new enemies respawn constantly, so I found myself low on health and couldn't leave the zone to travel back to a town to heal (health, essence, and mana get refilled when entering a friendly town). If you don’t mind (A LOT of) reading and the graphics don’t bother you, this is a solid RPG with plenty to do. The game looks rough and a little old and janky, but it’s not as bad or hard as it first seems. A bit of planning helps, especially with buffs, combat positioning, and using enemies’ weaknesses against them. I’m looking forward to the next part of the series and hope that Geneforge 3-5 get a remaster too.
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Unlike the Avernum re-remakes I think all the gameplay changes in this one are generally agreed to be improvements over the original. Widescreen support is great too. I think the designs/sprites for a lot of the shaper creations were better in the original, but that's a minor quibble. Remake specific stuff aside, this is a *fantastic* rpg with a really good story, highly recommended.
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Don't be dissuaded by the old school graphics, it's an excellent CRPG with a compelling story and a fairly fun and unique setting.
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Ultimately it is a good game but there are some caveats. The world, however, is interesting and while both series from Spiderweb I've played (This and Exile/Avernum) are unique, this one obviously takes the cake. Interplay with you being practically a (very feeble) god for the serviles is interesting! The Good: - Compared to spiderweb games the graphics are good, compared to other indie games, completely passable - Story is good (with caveats) and interesting and there are a lot of choices to be made - Moment to moment gameplay is very good at least with a shaper build - Naming your swarm of angry creatures in funny ways. - The atmosphere is good - Exploration is often rewarding and the world building makes you very immersed The Bad: - The game does not have ANY sort of way of telling you if you left something important somewhere (or for you to make notes on the map) - No music, sure, it's not a big deal breaker but at this point of remasters, it would've been welcome. - Some quests are confusing/obtuse/do not resolve from the quest log (a bug? Or am I missing something) - hub based gameplay, while clearly a design choice, loses in exploration excitement to the Avernum series - Last (for linux players not the least) there are some weird performance problems in this that are not present in Avernum, mainly with spellcasting / spell effects slowing the game to a crawl for the duration of the effect. AFAIK a linux problem. As a Spiderweb game? 9/10 For someone hopping in from more modern rpg's? 7/10 (still worth it, just shows it's age)
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Build-a-bear meets Fallout 1 & 2. This game seriously owns, but a word of advice - get mechanics 3 at a minimum within your first 2 level ups. It helps A LOT.
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Geneforge 1 - Mutagen is currently priced at 8.39€ on Steam.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen is currently available at a 50% discount. You can purchase it for 8.39€ on Steam.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen received 385 positive votes out of a total of 409 achieving a rating of 8.69.
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Geneforge 1 - Mutagen was developed and published by Spiderweb Software.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen is not playable on Linux.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen is a single-player game.
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Spiderweb Software
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Spiderweb Software
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24 Feb 2021
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