The developer introduced the mutants as one of the demo’s two opponents on 3 June 2026, describing them as “an enemy that inspires horror. Heavy units, disgusting worms and flies. Lots of heavy armor; they force close-quarters combat.” Confirmed by that announcement. The files bear that out in an unusual way: the mutant roster is smaller than the Empire’s but far more extreme at both ends.
The cheapest unit in the entire game is theirs — the Disgusting concrete eater at 5 minerals. So is the toughest: the Mass of flesh at 9 000 hit points, more than four times the sturdiest Empire unit. Worms cost 15. A Giant costs 1 300. There is very little in the middle, and that shape is the faction.
Their defining mechanic is recycling. On 10 February 2026 the developer explained that “mutant corpses spawn flies — a free but weak unit that can effectively attack enemy units of any type. Some corpses can create swarms of worms in large numbers, essentially serving as the mutant faction’s standard infantry.” Confirmed by that announcement. Killing a mutant army is therefore not the same as removing it: the dead become the next wave.
Their weakness is written into almost every entry. Fire resistance across the mutant roster is negative on a striking number of units — the concrete eater sits at −1.0, Worms at −0.7, the Sick mutant at −0.5. Against the Empire’s flamethrower vehicles and burning terrain, that is not a detail, it is the counter. The Spider, their fast flanker, carries −0.8 area resistance on top, which makes artillery devastating against it.
Read together, the doctrine is clear: mutants trade quality for volume and regeneration, and they lose to anything that removes volume faster than corpses can replace it — fire, splash, and artillery, in that order.
When the game builds a base for this side, it does not improvise. The faction record fixes 9 kinds of building and a count for each, so an established base holds between 28 and 37 structures: Stomach of prey (2 to 3), Construction crane (1 to 2), Spit turret (4 to 5), Strange anti-aircraft gun (2 to 3), House of Mutants (3 to 4), Formative house (3 to 4), The Creator of Flies (1 to 2), Bio bubble (6 to 7) and Subterranean worm (6 to 7). Read from build 23882143.
The same record also holds this side’s scripted attacks, and they are not random. There are 7 of them, 57 units in total, the smallest fielding 6 and the largest 10, and 4 of them sit behind a difficulty threshold. Two waves tie for the heaviest, and one of them fields 3 Spider, 2 Plotestrel, 2 Meat and 3 Strong crawler. Read from build 23882143. ⛔ The file also stores warning messages for some waves, but it is written in raw Russian rather than through the game’s own translation table, so we do not claim it is what an English player sees.
Values read from game files · version 23882143
