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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Give it 15 hours
Gets good by 15h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 32% of players who started
Started playing 83% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 20,606
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 7 reviews are negative (14%); after 20h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised less than in 85% of games we track.
- 32% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Huntress” (Meet Selma and convince her to join your crew) and “Thoughtful warrior” (Rescue Magnus from the Nova cultists): from 89% to 58% of starters.
- 83% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 20,870 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 20h for positive, 9.3h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (83% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Get back to the Ark! Return to the Ark! 100%
- Huntress Meet Selma and convince her to join your crew. 89% −11
- Thoughtful warrior Rescue Magnus from the Nova cultists. Most players quit here 58% −31
- Survivor Meet Farrow and convince her to join your crew. 48% −10
- Extraction Rescue Hammon from the Nova cult. 37% −11
- 50 Shades of death Kill Grey-One. 34% −3
- Matriarch Put an end to Plutonia's plans. 32% −1
- Not a myth Reach Eden. 32%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (54)
story milestone ending side
- Get back to the Ark! Return to the Ark! 100%
- Huntress Meet Selma and convince her to join your crew. 89%
- Sent to the farm Put 5 Zone Dogs 'to sleep'. 78%
- Take out the Zone trash! Kill 40 Ghouls. 71%
- Thoughtful warrior Rescue Magnus from the Nova cultists. 58%
- 50% Old Skool Collect 50% of Pripp's artifact wishlist. 49%
- Survivor Meet Farrow and convince her to join your crew. 48%
- Anti-Mechanic Decommission 10 'Mechanical men. 48%
- Green fingers Trap 10 enemies using 'Tree Hugger'. 43%
- 20 Seconds to comply… Destroy a MIMIR Z600. 40%
- My bad Kill a crew member. 39%
- And stay down! Knock down 10 enemies using 'Hog Rush'. 38%
- Extraction Rescue Hammon from the Nova cult. 37%
- 50 Shades of death Kill Grey-One. 34%
- Weapon smith Improve 5 upgradable weapons to level III. 33%
- Matriarch Put an end to Plutonia's plans. 32%
- Not a myth Reach Eden. 32%
- Fitness club Free the slaves from Lux's basement. 29%
- Not-so-tactical nuke Destroy a MIMIR Z800. 26%
- Lights out! Dish out some 'Zone-style' punishment to Lux. 26%
- Demo thing Reprogram the Ghouls' MIMIR Z600. 25%
- Butterfingers! Kill an enemy by making the Pyro drop his Molotov. 20%
- Tea Leaf Steal from Roboshack 19%
- The power of flesh Possess 10 enemies with 'Puppeteer'. 19%
- Bormin smash! Kill an enemy by knocking them off a high place. 16%
- Unnaturally successful Finish a combat encounter by using mutations only. 15%
- 100% Old Skool Collect 100% of Pripp's artifact wishlist. 12%
- Quicker than he looks! Catch up to the Elder. 12%
- King of the Forest Convince Big Khan to join your crew. 12%
- Weed Killer Put Goran out of his misery. 9.5%
- Ripley Would be Proud Destroy 5 Pod Spawners before they release new enemies. 8.6%
- Skogsarbetare Defeat the demon-tree Jyko. 8.2%
- Skinflint Collect 600 scrap. 7.8%
- Remember. The safe word is "Eden" Find the secret room were the Ancients used to meet. 7.5%
- Pub Crawl Complete all of Pripp's side-missions. 6.6%
- Om nom nom! Use 'Corpse Eater' to interrupt a resurrecting enemy. 5.2%
- Mad Hatter Collect every type of hat in the Zone. 5.1%
- Repurposer Turn 3 enemies at once into cover. 4.1%
- Freak Out! Unlock all Mutations in each character's skill tree. 4.0%
- Tastes like chicken Use 'Corpse Eater' to eat a crew member. 3.6%
- Frying tonight! Kill 10 enemies using 'Chain Lightning'. 3.5%
- Archaeologist Collect every artifact in the Zone. 3.4%
- Chronicler Collect all notes in the Zone. 2.2%
- Vampyr Kill 3 enemies in a row whilst invisible. 2.0%
- Home Run Hit 3 enemies at once with Big Khan's Ground Pound. 1.8%
- Bush Whacker Collect all of the Elder's specialist publications. 1.4%
- Pfft! Too easy! Reach Eden in 'IRON MUTANT' mode (Any difficulty). 1.4%
- Unfriended Taunt a crew member who is under mind control. 1.4%
- Still too easy!!! Reach Eden in 'IRON MUTANT' mode on VERY HARD. 1.3%
- QA have suffered! Reach Eden in 'IRON MUTANT' mode on VERY HARD without losing a crew member. 1.3%
- Anti Vaxxer Complete the SEED OF EVIL without using medkits. 1.2%
- Northern Exposure Stand under a Bus Stop with Big Khan in your party for 110 seconds. 1.1%
- Tough Nut Complete the SEED OF EVIL in IRON MUTANT mode. 0.8%
- Zone Master Obtain all achievements! 0.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.