Basic Facts

Developer:
Die Gute Fabrik

Location:
Copenhagen, Denmark

Publisher:
Akupara Games

Release date:
September 19, 2019

Platforms:
Apple Arcade / PS4 / PS5 /
Switch / Xbox /
Windows / macOS / Linux

Storefronts:
Apple Arcade / PSN / Xbox /
Switch / Steam /
Itch / Game Jolt

Website:
mutazionegame.com

Regular Price:
USD 19.99
EUR 17.99
GBP 15.99

Languages:
English, Danish, Arabic
French, Italian, German,
Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish,
Japanese, Korean, Russian,
Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Turkish

Ratings:
ESRB Teen
PEGI 7

Description

A mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural...

MUTAZIONE is an adventure game where the juicy personal drama is just as important as the high-stakes adventure part of the story.

Explore the community as 15-year-old Kai as she travels to the strange and secretive community of Mutazione to care for her ailing grandfather, Nonno.

Make new friends; plant musical gardens; attend BBQs, band nights and boat trips; and embark on a final spiritual journey to save everyone from the strange darkness at the heart of it all.

Over 100 years ago, the meteor "Moon Dragon" struck a tropical holiday resort. Most of the inhabitants perished, while those who survived began to show strange mutations... The rescue missions quickly retreated, and those who remained in the mutating environment founded the small and isolated community of Mutazione.

Fast-forward to modern day, where you play as 15-year-old Kai as she travels to Mutazione to help nurse her dying grandfather back to health. But things aren’t as simple as they seem... Nonno has other plans for Kai; secrets and betrayals simmer under the friendly community’s surface; and there’s a creepy bird-like figure who keeps on appearing in Kai's dreams.

They can survive an apocalyptic meteor strike, but can they survive their small-town drama?

Highlights

  • A lush, hand-illustrated world to explore
  • Ensemble cast of loveable mutant characters
  • A story with unpredictable dramatic twists and turns
  • Gardens to customise for unique relaxing generative musical soundscapes

Garden Mode

Garden Mode allows the player to access a stand-alone magical musical garden (on top of the gardens grown in story mode) adding features such as:

  • Seed sharing - send and receive rare and unusual seeds with your friends
  • New seeds not available in story mode
  • Time control - leave the gardens on in the background to slowly evolve and change
  • The exclusive ‘Cloud Garden’ - only glimpsed during Story Mode, now fully playable
  • Hundreds of new musical clips - a deeper, more complex musical landscape to explore

October 2020 Update

Return to Mutazione for a free content update - 7 additional unlockable gardens, with new seeds and sounds:

  • 7 unlockable Story Mode gardens, now in Garden Mode! Explore a brand new variety of soils and environments in Garden Mode.
  • New seeds and sounds to collect, grow, and listen to.
  • Build beautiful ambient compositions, in the company of some of your favourite characters, as they visit and relax in the background.

Penpal Mode / October 2021 Update

Keep in Touch with Old Friends in Mutazione’s new free Penpal DLC! Draft letters, catch up on the gossip, and see photographs from old friends. A durational experience that expands to the space of a week (each letter will take 24 hours to unlock), this free DLC offers a gentle epilogue expanding on the award-winning story’s conclusion.

  • Available on updating and finishing the main game
  • Hear from the island community and catch up with what has happened in the past two years.
  • Receive new seeds and sounds from old friends.
  • Beautiful photographs show snippets of action, two years on.

Logo & Boxart

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Mutazione banner
Mutazione box art
Mutazione logo
Mutazione release party

Videos

For video file downloads, see Vimeo links

Release Trailer | Vimeo, YouTube | Dansk Version

Cloud Garden Trailer | Vimeo, YouTube

Penpal Trailer (October 2021) | Vimeo, YouTube

Major Update Trailer (October 2020) | Vimeo, YouTube

Gardens Teaser | Vimeo, YouTube

B-roll (Chapter 3 excerpts) | Vimeo

Announcement Teaser | Vimeo, YouTube

Screenshots

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Band Night
The White Deer
The boat to Mutazione
Treetop with The Dots
Fireside with Tung and Miu
Chatting with Jell-a
Growing a magical garden
The Ritual
Secret Swim Spot
???

Garden Mode Screenshots

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Cloud Garden. An island floating in the sky, in front of purple clouds. The island contains a radio tower, a small house, a goat, and some plants.
Cloud Garden at sunset. A floating island, in front of red-blue gradient sky. The island contains a radio tower, a small house, and some plants.
Garden Mode controls. The screen shows a mysterious man in front of a small house, tending a garden. In front of the scene is a menu with seven buttons, and the current selected one says 'Seed Sharing'.
Seed sharing. A seed packet for the Keppa Tree shows on the left side, in front of a postcard that reads 'Greetings from Mutazione'. The postcard features a house on a floating island in the clouds.
Seed sharing. A seed packet for the Pineweed Seed shows on the left side, in front of a postcard that reads 'Greetings from Mutazione'. The postcard features a treehouse with a colorful garden next to it.
Garden Mode controls. The screen shows two round blue creatures, The Dots, playing with a beetle atop a giant tree. In front of the scene is a 'Mood Preference' menu with seven buttons, and the current selected one says 'Euphoria'.
Harbour Garden. A panorama shot of plants and trees on a sandy beach, with a small lighthouse on the left.
Miu sitting by the Treetop Garden. A cat woman is sitting by her treehouse next to a garden that is eminating musical notes

Penpal Mode Screenshots

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Mutazione Penpal banner image. A green typewriter has the lettering 'Free DLC'. In the top right is a photo of Tung swimming with his son..
A letter from Mori. On the righthand side, a photo of Mori and her family in the restaurant, and a packet of Waving Hand seeds.
A letter from Mori, writing about Tung maturing. On the righthand side, a photo of Mori and her family in the restaurant.
A letter where the player has a choice between writing one of two options. On the righthand side, a romantic photo of Spike and Claire.

Soundtrack

Alessandro Coronas presents an extensive 4+ hour deep dive into the audio landscape of the mutant soap opera videogame Mutazione, focusing on the original music composed to accompany the story of Die Gute Fabrik’s wonderful world of mutated plants and wildlife.

Released by Materia Collective, available on Bandcamp, Steam, Spotify. Published on vinyl by iam8bit.

OST Sample | Vimeo, YouTube, SoundCloud

Credits

Nils Deneken
Direction, Art, Story

Alessandro Coronas
Music and Audio Design

Morten Mygind
System Architecture and Story Engine

Hannah Nicklin
Writing and Narrative Design

Óscar Losada
Gameplay and UI

Katrin-Anna Zibuschka
Programming

Esben Modvig
Character Animation

Anne Louise Laugesen
Wildlife Animation

Mia Wewer
Story

Douglas Wilson
Design and Audio Engine

Christoffer Holmgård
Production and Narrative Systems


Mutazione was a collaborative effort and includes work by many others beyond the core team. For full credits, please see in-game menu.


Funding
Mutazione has been made with financial support from Sony, the Danish Film Institute, Creative Europe, and Nordic Game

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