Geneforge 1 - Mutagen

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, dungeon crawler and rpg game developed and published by Spiderweb Software.
Released on February 24th 2021 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 399 reviews of which 376 were positive and 23 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Geneforge 1 - Mutagen into these genres:

CRPG Dungeon Crawler RPG Turn-Based Party-Based RPG Strategy Turn-Based Strategy 2D Isometric Story Rich Adventure Turn-Based Combat Fantasy Grid-Based Movement Old School Indie Retro Singleplayer Creature Collector

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Requirements

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Windows

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: 10.10
Processor: 1.2 GHZ
Graphics: 256 MB VRAM
Storage: 400 MB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

Good old-school fun. I will say, if you're anything like me and can't play a game unless you crank it to the highest difficulty... The balance is waaay off. Level 9 enemies with poison spray and haste are more powerful than level 15 enemies without poison/acid by a longshot. One of those can beat my level 22 summon without even blinking. So I found that a little frustrating. But it is what it is.

Oct. 2024

Just a really nice old-school CRPG. But take note, it really is quite old-school, so if that's not your thing, probably best avoid. But if it is, this ticks basically every box. Interesting and original setting, unusual magic/summoning system and (so far at least) a quite intriguing story. If you are old like me, or appreciate older games, particularly CRPGs, this is worth your time and money.

Sept. 2024

You wont like this game if you dislike difficulty even on Casual (old games were made different?), reading (and a lot of it), potentially having to take notes & figuring things out for yourself (cause the wiki cant save you) But its good and it fixes so much of the original's issues - mainly being out of date and QoL updates, some nice new visuals but still good! And theres a brand new area & group just for the remake!

Sept. 2024

I played all of the Avernum trilogy and really enjoyed them for their unusual fantasy world (no elves, dwarves, and orcs here!) and great sense of exploration. Geneforge has an even stranger fantasy world that feels just as exciting and mysterious to explore. The atmosphere is mysterious! The game systems and interface are very streamlined compared to other games by the same dev. The systems for summoning monsters and casting spells are intuitive. This game isn't too hard, so you aren't punished for spending your skill points in experimental ways. The pacing of this game is good. The areas are small but full of interesting stuff. The NPCs have some interesting dialogue, but you don't have to click through hundreds of words.

Aug. 2024

Imagine one of the older D&D PC games, except you are constantly replacing your other party members with expendable, customizable creatures. The best part is that there is the option of these creatures taking a back seat to your character, should you choose to build that way. Need something beefy to stand in front of attacks? Make a burly cheetah man to leap at enemy lines and apply stuns if you spend more Essence (think most games' mana with no regen) on it. If you invest a level into them, they even explode on death. Coming up to a large group of fragile enemies? Give your fire-breathing raptors the ability to use their large cone of fire every single turn. Sometimes twice in a turn for, again, a little more Essence. Fantastic core gimmick aside, the game is very well paced and well written. I'm enjoying everything from the actual story dialogue to the background lore and even several of the item descriptions. For those interested, there are also three (maybe four, trying not to spoil myself on story) different factions to align with through quests that change the story quite plainly. I know there are multiple endings, but not how many. Gotta give myself reason to play as the other character classes, after all. I'm picking up the second game now for when I get at least one ending in this one.

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16.79€

8.7

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Spiderweb Software

Publisher

Spiderweb Software

Release 24 Feb 2021

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