Mutazione is the identify of an island city, or what’s left of 1, after a rogue meteor crashed into it a long time in the past. Now all the oldsters are mutant-y creatures and the protagonist Kai is the one human-looking human round, come to hang around along with her outdated gramps for a bit. Aside from chatting with the locals, Mutazione lets Kai mess around cultivating musical vegetation, which is what its new Garden Mode replace permits you to do much more of.
Alice B defined the plant bits in her Mutazione review: “Mutazione allows you to be an artist, as you choose where your plants will grow, perhaps with a big splash of pink leaves on the left and a smattering of bright mushrooms across the ground, and also a composer. Then you can sit and watch, and listen to it. It’s a miracle that all the little sounds come together to make music.” She says a few of them sound like acoustic guitars, others are little percussive rattlings, and a few are simply ambient disappointment.
Unlike within the story, Garden Mode permits you to mess around composing plant music for so long as you want. The Cloud Garden, which sits above the gardens in story mode, is a standalone space. You’ll have seven new seeds sorts at your disposal and may commerce them with buddies as nicely. Apparently you possibly can even go away the backyard operating and take heed to the sounds change over time like some sort of auditory lava lamp.
Mutazione has additionally snagged front-runner on the IGF awards with 4 nominations, together with the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. Two thirds of Alices at RPS agree that it’s good. You can seize Mutazione on Itch, Steam, and GOG for £16/€18/$20. The Garden Mode replace is out now.
Disclosure: Hannah Nicklin, who has written for us, is studio and narrative lead at Die Gute Fabrik.
