The D20 Beat: Biomutant exemplifies grade-A Eurojank

One of my favorite styles of RPG is “Eurojank.” As the name implies, these are games from European studios that, well, aren’t as well-polished as those we get from triple-A dev houses. They’re ambitious, often overly so. And with the execution on these, some of that ambitiousness often just misses as well.

Think of games like The Witcher 2, the Gothic series, or the RPGs from Spiders — all of these have a great deal of ambition, have interesting worlds … but also suffer a bit from too many features that aren’t fully baked and lack polish. I’ve long loved Eurojank — they’re some of my favorite RPGs. It’s a term of endearment at The D20 Beat, not a pejorative.