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As you approach a hostile area, you will start seeing a red circle around the enemies, representing their detection radius. Which is where the sneak mechanic comes in. Unlike most tactics games, however, Road to Eden is really hard. It is also very important to set up your battles because, like most tactics games, encounters are tipped in favor of the enemy. Out in the world, you will find scrap, medkits and other useful things that can give you a much-needed edge in combat. Speaking of which, exploration is key to surviving the tough battles Path to Eden will throw at you. You also have direct control over them and can walk around freely to explore outside of combat.

Your characters are fleshed out and talk to each other in a way that is more reminiscent of RPGs than tactics games. Outside of combat, the changes to the formula are more apparent and the RPG legacy starts to shine through. While I love to see these games be more experimental with the use of AP, I have to admit that it’s fairly balanced and works well in this case. Dealing damage to an enemy usually ends your turn while movement and abilities let you spend them more freely. Battles will instantly feel familiar to XCOM players: you have two action points to spend per character and round to play around with and each character has two weapons that they can use. Nowadays, any game that labels itself a tactics game is bound to be compared to XCOM at some point and Path to Eden is no exception.

Perhaps it is time we stopped pretending and actually opened our heart for each other because after spending many a night in post-apocalyptic Sweden, I think I’m in love. I also bought the SNES game, Doom Trooper, in a box of games at a flea market, and so on. While drunkenly looking for some Ron Perlman movies, as you do, I would find the god-awful movie adaptation. I would find Mutant Chronicles minifigs when I was out looking for new Warhammer models to paint. Older kids would talk about the tabletop RPG and how great it was in school. Though we seldom actually crossed paths, the Mutant franchise seems to have dogged me like a stray puppy for as long as I can remember.

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