Press kit

Everything you need to cover Mutarch

Factsheet, copy-ready descriptions, screenshots, and key art, all on one page. No forms, no embargoes, no zip files. Quote and reuse anything here with attribution to Khargol Brute Games.

A hulking chitin-armored apex creature with glowing green veins

Descriptions

Four lengths, all current. Lift whichever fits your format.

One sentence

Mutarch is a single-player creature-colony strategy game where you splice genes from dead enemies into your own legion and fight champions that remember every wound.

Short

Mutarch is a creature-colony strategy game. You hatch a legion, splice genes out of the enemies it kills, and march it across a procedural region where six clans wage their own wars and champions remember every scar you give them. Death is permanent. Genes are not.

Medium

Mutarch is a creature-colony strategy game: hatch and splice your own legion, hunt champions that remember you, and out-evolve six rival clans on a procedurally generated living world. First-class Steam Workshop support for clans, units, skills, genes, items, and more.

Long

Every creature in your legion is hatched, named and built by you, gene by gene. Lead them onto a living region map where rival clans wage their own wars, enemy champions remember every scar you give them, and death is always permanent. Between marches, the legion lives in a colony that runs without you: creatures eat, spar, raise buildings, and settle a pecking order of their own. Six rival clans fight over the region whether you join in or not. First-class Steam Workshop support covers clans, units, skills, genes, items, expeditions, and more.

Key features

  • Splice your perfect monster. Harvest genes from fallen enemies and pour them into your own creatures: skills, stat chassis, whole bloodlines. Skill rolls are graded, sockets are earned, and every splice propagates live into your roster. The only limit is what you manage to kill.
  • Champions that remember you. Enemy champions aren't authored. The world generates them, names them, and promotes them through their clan's ranks. Wound one and it comes back scarred and angrier. Kill it and a rival rises to take its place. Flee, and it remembers that too. Between your encounters, a champion is busy:
  • A base that lives without you. Your creatures aren't icons in a list. They eat, sleep, spar and raise buildings on their own. Deeds earn renown, an alpha emerges at the top of the pecking order, and ambitious rivals will duel to depose it.
  • A war you're only part of. Every campaign generates a new world: the map, its rivers and roads, the names of its towns and ruins, the champions who hold them. Six clans fight over it with or without you, and territory shifts with every battle their warhosts win or lose. March through their wars, pick your fights, and read the map before it reads you.
  • Evolve without end. Spend biomass on a sprawling evolution web: hundreds of mutations, branch keystones with real trade-offs, and no level cap in sight. Expedition tiers scale forever; so can you.

About the studio

Khargol Brute Games is a one-person studio from Germany. Mutarch is the first game: built slowly, played daily, and shipped when it's worth your time.

Screenshots

Straight from the current build, 16:9. Click any image for the full-size file, or hotlink the URL under it.

Arena combat plays out in real time
Arena combat plays out in real time battle-action.webp
Pull the camera back and see the whole field at once
Pull the camera back and see the whole field at once battle-full.webp
Size up a champion's warband before you commit
Size up a champion's warband before you commit battle-intro.webp
Expedition offers from the war table
Expedition offers from the war table expedition-board.webp
Every hatch is a new roll in the hunt for the perfect one
Every hatch is a new roll in the hunt for the perfect one hatch-reveal.webp
Your history, written as it happens
Your history, written as it happens annals.webp

Key art

A hulking chitin-armored apex creature with glowing green veins
Hero creature, transparent background hero-apex.png
A champion card with war kit, stats and epithet
Champion card, in-game UI art champion-card.png
Khargol Brute Games studio emblem
Studio emblem studio-emblem.png

Asset usage

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  • Use the screenshots and key art freely in articles, videos, and streams about Mutarch. Hotlinking the URLs above is fine.
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  • Please do not repackage the assets outside coverage of the game or use them to imply endorsement.

Contact

Press, previews, interviews, keys when there are keys to give: one inbox, read by the person who makes the game.

kaiwerther@gmail.com

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