- New Bundle! - Akupara Hidden Gems - 15 September 2026
Hey Gardeners,To celebrate Akupara Games turning 10 years old, we have added Mutazione to the Akupara Hidden Gems Bundle! These games might be your new favorite games that you haven’t heard about. Zoeti, Mutazione, Universe For Sale, and Everafter Falls are all in this bundle at a discount. These are the games with touching stories that may have snuck under your radar.-riv otter
- Mutazione in Dead Pets - 5 February 2026
Hey Gardeners,I hope you are enjoying planting and creating music in the garden. In fact the music is so inspiring that one of the songs in Mutazione, Riot Girls 1-1 by Alessangro Coronas, has been added as a song to be played in Dead Pets!Struggling punk rock band, Dead Pets, are looking for their big break. Play rhythm games at band practice, work a diner shift, converse with characters and manage Gordy’s life. Dead Pets Unleashed is a feminist, slice-of-life, management-lite, minigame-heavy story; unleash your inner demon! Check out Dead Pets here!-Riv otter
- Akupara Games Celebrates 8 Year with Sales and Livestream - 4 October 2024
Hey Akuparians! Guess what, it’s our birthday!, Akupara Games is turning 8 years old and to celebrate, we have put Mutazione on sale for 63% off! Be sure to grab those deals, check out our lovely event page, and check out the sales! Maybe the game you’ve been waiting for is waiting for you here, with a crisp sale to match. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/akuparagames8thanniversarysale Also, to celebrate, we will be hosting a multi-hour stream with tons of activities, announcements, and more! Stream is starting at 11:45 PM PDT! We really hope to see you there - and here’s to another year of publishing your favorite indie games on the market https://www.twitch.tv/akuparagames - Riv otter
- Narrative game studio Die Gute Fabrik has 'halted production' because it can't find funding for a new project - 26 February 2024
Indie studio Die Gute Fabrik, developer of the award-winning "mutant soap opera" Mutazione and the narrative adventure Saltsea Chronicles , has "halted production" due to an inability to find funding for its next project... Read more.
- Patch Notes - Fixing M1 and Mac silicon chips issue - 5 December 2023
Hey gardeners, We have pushed a patch that fixes players with the M1 chip crashing and fixes launched issues for users on Mac silicon chips! Note: Your save should still work on this new patch. Patch notes Fixed Steamworks package for Mutazione which fixed the Steam version crashes Fixed launch issues for users on mac silicon chips (game should now launch with rosetta automatically) -riv otter
- Exclusive Demo from Die Gute Fabrik - Saltsea Chronicles - 20 June 2023
Hello folks, Die Gute Fabrik, the studio behind MUTAZIONE, are delighted to share an exclusive playable demo of their brand new story-driven adventure game Saltsea Chronicles! https://youtu.be/NKOTdjNJe1s Available from the 19th-26th June 2023 you can download the demo on Steam for a limited time only as part of Steam Next Fest. The demo features an excerpt from chapter 4 of the game, where you’ll visit the cat-culture island community of Los Gatos. Choose from three different expedition characters as you track down clues, and meet a wonderful cast of crew members and local folks. You can also watch a stream of Creative Director Hannah Nicklin and Deputy Story Lead Sharna Jackson as they give a behind-the-scenes commentary on the demo. Wishlist the game on Steam right now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1419620/Saltsea_Chronicles/
- Mutazione USB cassette campaign - 9 June 2023
Hey Gardeners! We’re teaming up with Huey Games to launch a campaign for a USB cassette that includes Mutazione! But, not just Mutazione, since also included with the USB cassette is another one of our Akupara Games titles, Whispering Willows. USB cassettes includes ◆ Both Whispering Willows and Mutazione for Windows and Mac (DRM-Free) ◆ Whispering Willows and Mutazione OST ◆ Whispering Willows art book Be sure to check out the campaign here! https://bit.ly/MZWW_KS -riv otter
- Die Gute Fabrik’s new game Saltsea Chronicles announced at Day of the Devs! - 8 June 2023
In 2019, Akupara Games published developer Die Gute Fabrik’s award-winning game Mutazione. Fast-forward to 2023 and we’re delighted to share the news that DGF’s next game was just announced at Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwxc2eyHfE4 Coming soon, Saltsea Chronicles is set in a post-flood world. The game allows you to guide a misfit crew in search of their missing captain. The investigation and the decisions you make will see you explore a series of beautiful and intriguing islands, meet different communities, and see the lives of people built on the ruins of what came before – all as you unravel the mystery at the heart of the game. Wishlist the game on Steam right now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1419620/Saltsea_Chronicles/
- The Final Seeds are Appearing in Your Gardens Today! - 19 September 2022
Hey Gardeners! There are new seeds to discover, plant, share, and listen to! Play garden mode and these will start appearing in your gardens! You can also share seeds with others in our Discord! Mutazione is one of the cornerstone, foundational games that made Akupara what it is today so it’s very bittersweet to be ending development on it. We know how many of you connected with Kai as she healed the Papu Tree, connected with each other trading seeds and just connected with a gardening game that doesn’t ask for more than an attentive ear. If you want to read more about the final update to Mutazione, today’s blog is a long, heartfelt farewell to the game! https://www.akuparagames.com/2022/09/19/mutazione-three-years-later-a-look-back/ -Riv Otter
- The wonderful Mutazione gets a free epilogue in the Penpal Update - 2 November 2021
Have you played Mutazione yet? If not, you're mad. It's probably one of the nicest indie games to release in 2019 and then come to Linux officially in 2020. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/the-wonderful-mutazione-gets-a-free-epilogue-in-the-penpal-update
- The Penpal Update - 22 October 2021
Today, we’re releasing our third major update for Mutazione, the Penpal Update! While our last two updates focused on bringing Garden Mode to the game and unlocking all seven gardens to play through, Penpal offers an epilogue to Mutazione’s story. Over the course of a week, you’ll get to send and receive letters from your friends like Miu and Tung! If you’re hunting for new seeds to plant and trade, Penpal is going to bring new seeds and sounds to the game just like the Garden Mode and 7 Gardens updates before it. Finally, we’re putting together The Mutazione Symphony! Players who send in a recording of their Garden Mode gardens will earn a game key for another Akupara Games title. More details on all of these can be found below! Penpal Two years have passed since Mutazione’s original launch, and now - two years on from the events of the original game - this new “Penpal” DLC allows you…
- Nominate Mutazione for The Steam Awards! - 25 November 2020
Greetings, fellow mutants! The big Steam Autumn festivities kick off today! If you know anyone who’s had their eye on Mutazione but hasn’t bit yet, or think the soothing sights and sounds of this game might make a good gift for somebody, the game is currently on sale for 30% off for the Steam Autumn Sale! That brings the game down to a delicious $13.99, but the sale only lasts until December 1, so act quick! While you’re here, why not help us get Mutazione recognized in The Steam Awards? Mutazione is eligible for the Labor of Love award, and I think we can all agree that this touching family adventure is an absolute labor of love. Do us a solid and give the game a nomination for the Labor of Love award category, it helps a lot! That’s all for now. See you in the gardens!
- The Mutazione 7 Gardens Update Sprouts Today! - 22 October 2020
Today, we’re adding all seven Story Mode gardens to Garden Mode! Mutazione launched a little over a year ago and since that time we’ve loved seeing the way that players engage with the game. Going back even after the story is done to tend your gardens, collecting elusive seeds in Garden Mode, and trading those seeds with one another on Steam and Discord has become this huge piece of the Mutazione fanbase. With today’s update, the gardens found in Story Mode can now be accessed in Garden Mode so that you can compose beautiful new soundscapes in the iconic gardens from the island. If you’re new to the game, playing through each garden in Story Mode will unlock its counterpart in Garden Mode. If you’re only on Chapter 2, for instance, you’ll only have access to the Chapter 2 Rooftop Garden. If you solved the mystery of Mutazione, however, you will have access to all seven gardens when you…
- Have You Played Mutazione? - 1 June 2020
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Despite my grand plans to get more, right now I still only have one houseplant. But I do love it. I move it around to give it different amounts of light and carefully check the soil. Growing plants seems to have both a creative and a protective element to it. You can get a sense of that from Mutazione . (more…)
- Mutazione comes to Linux! - 12 February 2020
Hey, mutants! This one goes out to all of the Linux fans! We've heard you and completed work on a Linux build of the title that's going live today! This update is going to bring Mutazione to Linux players, but doesn't otherwise contain new features. So, if you wanted to follow Kai's adventure through Mutazione or plant a few seeds in Garden Mode, you'll now have the option of doing it on Linux as well! That's definitely not the only news we wanted to highlight, though, since Mutazione has also been nominated for four Independent Game Festival awards! If you didn't catch it, Gamasutra tracked down the game's writer, Hannah Nicklin, for a truly insightful interview! And, of course, we'll learn if it won next month at GDC, so stay tuned! A special thanks goes out to all of the community testers who helped us try out the build over the last few weeks! The next round at Spike's is on us! Unt…
- Arabic Language Live, More on Seed Sharing - 29 January 2020
Greetings, mutants! This update brings the localization for the Arabic language to the game! Arabic took just a bit longer to get ready so we decided to hold it for this update rather than delay Garden Mode for you! Speaking of Garden Mode, we also wanted to include a small tutorial for the new seed sharing feature! As you accrue seeds you might not need anymore, you have the option of sending those seeds to your friends by sending them a six-letter code! To generate the code, go to Seed Sharing and select: "Send Seeds." Then, choose a type of seed and an amount to send and the game will generate a screenshot that you can share! If you'd like to receive seeds, select: "Receive Seeds." Then, input the code and you'll get a postcard with the seeds adding them to your garden! If you'd like to share seeds with other users on Steam, we posted a Seed Sharing megathread earlier today! You can…
- Mutazione's new Garden Mode lets you make more plant music - 22 January 2020
Mutazione is the name of an island town, or what’s left of one, after a rogue meteor crashed into it decades ago. Now all the folks are mutant-y creatures and the protagonist Kai is the only human-looking human around, come to hang out with her old gramps for a bit. Aside from chatting with the locals, Mutazione lets Kai play around cultivating musical plants, which is what its new Garden Mode update lets you do a lot more of. (more…)
- Garden Mode! - 21 January 2020
This is a substantial update adding new sharing and standalone Garden Mode features. 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 • 7 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 The update will also add 6 new languages to Story Mode: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Turkish. The final language, Arabic, will be added in a later update.
- Mutazione Trading Cards are live now! - 10 January 2020
Greetings, fellow mutants! Trading cards for Mutazione are now available! We have fifteen (15) trading cards available for each of the individual characters showcased in the game! The response to Mutazione has been amazing, including our incredibly humbling nomination at the Independent Games Festival for four separate categories! Our next content update is coming very soon, so now's a great time to set sail, get gardening and immerse yourself back in the community of Mutazione!
- Mutazione, Untitled Goose Game, and A Short Hike do battle for IGF award's top prize - 7 January 2020
Mutazione , the "mutant soap opera" adventure game set in a gossipy small town 100 years after a meteor strike, leads this year's selection of Independent Games Festival awards nominees with four nominations including for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize.  Other games with multiple nominations this year include Knights and Bikes (Excellence in Visual Art and Audio), Elsinore (Excellence in Design and Narrative), Slay the Spire (Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence in Design), A Short Hike (Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence in Design), Eliza (Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence in Narrative), and Untitled Goose Game (Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence in Aud i o, because of course it is).  Nominees for the 2020 IGF awards were drawn from a selection of more than 550 games, which were submitted to "a diverse set of expert jurors from across the indus…
