Mutazione is free on the Epic Games Store mobile this week, letting you grow musical gardens and uncover family secrets
Overview & Key Takeaways
A meteor levelling a tropical holiday resort would be the entire plot of most things. In Mutazione it is backstory, and distant backstory at that. The survivors stayed put, and a century on, their descendants are mostly busy gossiping about each other. Better story, I'd say. Kai is 15 and gets packed off to Mutazione to nurse her grandfather Nonno back to health. He's dying. He also has plans for her that he's in no rush to explain. Everyone else in town has mutated in one direction or another over the past 100 years, and they've all got plenty to say about each other. Awkward for Kai. Good for us. ... [MORE]
- Free to claim on mobile
- Grow gardens that create music
- Explore a town full of secrets
A meteor levelling a tropical holiday resort would be the entire plot of most things. In Mutazione it is backstory, and distant backstory at that. The survivors stayed put, and a century on, their descendants are mostly busy gossiping about each other. Better story, I'd say.
Kai is 15 and gets packed off to Mutazione to nurse her grandfather Nonno back to health. He's dying. He also has plans for her that he's in no rush to explain. Everyone else in town has mutated in one direction or another over the past 100 years, and they've all got plenty to say about each other. Awkward for Kai. Good for us.
The gardening is the part people tend to remember. You plant seeds that produce actual musical soundscapes, so your flowerbeds end up doubling as a soundtrack you assembled by accident. Seeds can be sent to and received from friends too.
Outside of that, the days are given over to barbecues, band nights, boat trips, and the slow business of finding out what everyone is hiding. The community is friendly on the surface. Under it, less so. A bird-like figure keeps turning up in Kai's dreams too. I'm choosing to read that as a bad sign.
Mutazione is free through the Epic Games Store mobile app until August 6th, and once claimed, it stays in your library. Our guide to downloading the Epic Games Store on mobile will walk you through the setup if you have not bothered before.
Normally this is a paid download for $9.99 a pop, so free is a fair deal for something that won a fair few awards on release.
If you want more in this vein once you have finished, our list of the best narrative-driven adventures on mobile has plenty to be getting on with.
