The Mutiny

The Mutiny is a third-person zombie survival RPG set fifty years after machines took over and went silent. Now the dead walk. You explore an open world above and below ground, follow a story, and survive in the ruins by eating, sleeping, training, crafting, farming, building, trading and fighting. Play solo or online with friends.

Story and world

Relic hunter Mach3 is searching for the truth about what happened during the Mutiny. Hunt relics from the old world, follow his trail across the map and deep underground, and find a little tin-can robot that becomes your companion. The story begins with a prologue movie.

The world includes the Meadows, the city of the Heights, the mountain town of Skarheim, the seaside town of Tidehaven, a prison and the tunnels of the Spine. An Underground City lets you buy almost anything. Crews live in their own camps and remember how you treat them: you can make friends, take jobs, recruit followers or make enemies. Camps face attacks at night, and horde nights hit hard.

Survival and progression

You manage hunger, thirst, nutrition, sleep, energy, sickness, infection and toxic gas. Food spoils, and water needs boiling. Everything you carry or wear, including armor, has weight: staying light lets you move freely, while carrying more reduces your sprint until you can only walk. Building muscle increases how much you can carry, and training at the Workout Bench makes you stronger.

Crafting and building

The game has nine kinds of crafting bench, each with upgradeable tiers, and blueprints that you can trade for relics. You can build a base with power, water, storage and light, grow crops through the seasons, and tame, raise, breed and ride animals. Your dog has your back.

There are 781 pieces of clothing and armor across 42 sets, worn individually across 25 slots, including helmets, torsos, arms, legs, gloves, boots, pads, backpacks, gas masks and hip lights. You can mix and match pieces. Options range from everyday clothes to 18 crafted armor sets, from light to heavy, as well as 12 town sets that can only be made with blueprints found in Skarheim and Tidehaven.

Combat

You fight with guns, bows, melee weapons and kicks, each with its own skill to level up. Grenades, C4, traps, turrets and lures provide other ways to take on enemies. Zombies include walkers, runners that leap at you, crawlers, exploders, gas carriers, flyers and the Brooder; the dark also holds Watchers, Skitters, zombie dogs and hellhounds. Enemies can be shot apart limb by limb, but noise matters: every shot is heard, so you can sneak, use a bow or fight up close.

Game modes

In Extraction mode, you lead a camp underground and go to the surface to loot before trying to get out alive. You can bring up to four of your own people. If they die on the surface, they are gone for good; if you die, you lose what you carried. Spend credits to build your home and grow your camp.

Horde mode has you defend the gates of Eastgate Pumping Station against endless waves. Earn guts to buy guns and send robots to build fences, traps, turrets and lights. Move workers between gates, hold out as the waves grow harder, and level up your survivor between runs. Play solo or online with up to four players.

Multiplayer and controls

Online co-op is available in the open world and Horde mode. You can play with a controller, mouse and keyboard, or touch, and use talk and point wheels to communicate with friends and your crew.