Biomutant

Developer Experiment 101 Publisher THQ Nordic Format PC (tested), PS4, Xbox One Release Out now

The thought comes every so often as we explore Biomutant’s verdant wasteland. Knowing that its open world – a few square miles rich with jungle, marsh and scrubland – is the work of a remarkably small team, our mind occasionally wanders away from the fluttering vegetation underfoot, the pylons that jut out of the landscape, and turns instead to its creation. And the thought is always this: the decision-makers at Experiment 101 must surely be immune to the word ‘no’.

We are talking, after all, about a game in which a rodent martial artist and their robotic grasshopper companion