Last updated on December 11th, 2025 at 06:00 pm
Mutatis – Action Game Review
Mutatis is a Action/Casual game from Victor Pineles, first launched in 8th February 2020.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 317+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mutatis Stand Out
Dive into the ever-transforming world of Mutatis! This unique shoot ‘em up game reacts to the various sensors and information of your device to constantly shake things up!
A whole new dimension of possibilities open up as you consider the different ways to interact with Mutatis. Should you play it in the dark? How loud will you make your volume? Prepare to be amazed as the game changes before your very eyes.
◆ Classic shmup action with a twist
◆ Gameplay connected to your environment and state of your device
◆ Enemies that react to the condition you’re playing in
◆ Power-ups that utilize different sensors
◆ Colorful palettes for each unique situation
◆ Capture data on enemies, powers and themes by taking a screenshot
◆ Compete for highest score in a global leaderboard
◆ Collect achievements that reward playing in many conditions
◆ Original music that also reacts to changes
Discover a different Mutatis every time you play.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mutatis is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th February 2020
Recent improvements include:
Emergency fix for "Continue" feature and improvements to "Options" screen.
Download & Availability
Mutatis is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love it! Its very creative and a fun way to pass the time.
Amazing game good art/design and over all nice to play.
It maybe weird but catchy at that.
Creates an entire new game genre.
We had the game on pre-order or whatever, just found it on our phone and we cant stop playing it, its so addicting.
We like playing in the car (Im not driving, calm down) and as different angles of light hit our phone, the brightness auto-adjusts and causes the background to change right before our eyes and different mobs to show up . Definitely recommend this game.
Hello, we start to play this game, and it start off great, but when we play that game again, we were like where is more enemies, where is more power up, and where is more theme? Please let us know. Thanks.
We like this Crazy game. It has a concept Unique.
A very good game we like how the more volume you have the harder it gets we just barely started playing it so we dont know what other features it has but it has a great potential.
This game plays out so smoothly, the way that your interactions interact with your character is so flush, and the fact that, we've never seen a game like this and we love it so much.
This game is very cool. It can change depending on your phones status which is really cool. This is a very cool concept.
We like the game at this point. Like others, however, we feel there could be more to be done. For inspiration, we would turn to the amazing app, Blackbox. Some things we might draw from it, along the lines of settings, are connection to networks (cellular or WiFi), Bluetooth, camera use, microphone sound levels, and many other things. Check it out and see what you can do.
This game is good overall, but has a serious bug. When starting the app on IPad, the screen will be too large for it to fit on screen. To fix this, you must pause/die, press no to continue, and press quit. Another bug is that silence this was made for phone, there is a large black area around the screen, instead of the screen filling up the whole screen of the iPad. Some ideas for power ups are ones for airplane mode, headphones, and if multiple apps are open or not. Thanks for reading.
Good game but all your playing for is a high score you should add a shop so then you can get new guns and upgrade you ship.
We were super excited for this game, thinking it would be something cool and procedural like Res or LUMINES, but its really just a bland Asteroids. It kind of feels like a start of someones school project. Ive played quite a bit and only seen maybe 10 different enemies and exactly 1 power up that you have to awkwardly turn your phone to use. The controls are kind of weird also, like the ship doesnt follow your thumb, it follows an invisible ball under your thumb, so it moves around a lot more than you move your finger and its kind of disorienting. It wouldnt have been hard to put alternate controls. It feels like they kind of ran out of imagination after the step where they thought to use different statuses of your phone, like battery to determine the conditions of the game. Of course there is a watch ads option to continue when you die and we have never felt like watching one because we never feel like Ive progressed enough to bother. Even when you defeat a boss, the level doesnt change and neither do the enemies. There are plenty of other space shooter games out there that let you actually unlock different ships and powers so you can feel like there is a point to playing rather than a high score chase. It isnt really a bad game, but it isnt amazing either, hence our perfectly average score for a bland cardboard game.
A really interesting concept but the game feels unfinished. After watching an ad to continue you are left with one life. It seems the only things that affect you are brightness and volume. We havent cleared the 2 stage yet because when the eye(omicron?) and another mob appear the bullets become too fast to detect and it quickly becomes impossible. The difficulty is increased by the lack of power ups. The only one available is spin which only makes the game harder.
This game is pretty much impossible past a minute or so! We think its cool idea using all the phones sensors but the spin control isnt fun.
Cant get any farther than after reflections because the game just closes. IPhone xr.
We like this game alot we like how it interacts with the phone and uses its elements im glad we preordered it we love this game.
This game takes an already fun sub genre of games and throws a cool, unique spin on it. We highly suggest it! @the devs: we hope you continue to add more mobs, powers, and themes along with using more parts of the phone. You should check out the mobile game blackbox to see if you get any inspiration. Suggestion: the rotate power up shouldnt appear if we have orientation lock on.
The game has lots of little features that you have to change settings to notice. We love the concept of a simple, Galaga-like game that changes based on things like brightness, sound, or even if you have your phone plugged in. Ive been playing it for about an hour and we can definitely see this as something that we will continue to enjoy. Great game.
Love the art style and the extra phone functions that it uses.
We really like the fact that the game changes with your environment and with time. Screenshots to capture stuff is a great idea. Love it :D.
We love playing games that are involved with your actual phone (gyro scope, brightness/volume level have in-game effects). Ive played the game for a solid 15 minutes already and it is very fun. Imagine Galaga, but more intense and stellar yet simple graphics. Tilting your phone for one of the power ups is very fun, somewhat odd since Ive never done it this way. The game goes pretty fast as well, quick thinking plays a big roll in this game. There arent any cons as of today.(Game was released today February 8 2020) Game is great and we highly recommend giving it a play, if you dont like it, just delete it. We personally love this type of game, have fun.
This game is actually really interesting, and unlike any we've played before. Sure, there are other Bullet Hell/Shoot Em Up games, but just by experimenting with brightness, the theme and enemies both changed. Also, whenever you have music playing in the background, the music in the game is replaced, which is pretty neat. When you change the music, sound type enemies change their attacks, which is another cool feature of the app.
This game showed the creators with their thinking caps on, Ive only played once and Im already relatively impressed. Im looking forward to experimenting with our phone states.
Well thought through good idea too.
This game is a very fun game. Takes everything on your phone into consideration. (Battery health, screen brightness, and volume) to give you the best experience! We would definitely recommend this to friends and family also considering its free.
Very cool concept of the whole game. Been trying out all the different ways that your phone can change the game. We would say mid brightness and low battery it very cool.
We pre ordered this game and as soon as it came out we were glued to the game and could not stop playing. Whoever made this did an amazing job. Congrats.
The concept is amazing and the gameplay is very nice, Id recommend this to people.
This game is the most creative and ambitious project we have ever seen a game be playing it was a joy. Please expand on this beautiful game. Also a suggestion, make the screen a bit better to see. On our we pad all the ui is messed up and jumbled. Can you fix that please.
Okay Ive started to play this game and its fun! We immediately just started for maybe 10 minutes after it downloaded we think and we think its a nice app. Once we started playing we thought it was interesting. We love how this app kinda connects with real life, its a bit weird but thats a part of the game! The enemies or monsters depend on your phone and controls, and when we turned our sound off a different monster or enemy was there, we think thats kinda cool. Depending on your battery life, sound, brightness of the game, will change everything. Also we believe 100% battery life gives you 4 hearts or something so we recommend your phone should be at 100% Anyway sorry if this aint a really informative review, we just wanted to share a little nice feedback! Whoever reads this we hope you have a lovely day! Peace.
This game is awesome with an interesting new concept. A shooter with minimal controls but a lot of content, the only thing Mutatis lacks is content. Finding new environment changers is difficult (or maybe we just can't find them) so please add new themes and enemies. Obviously since the game was released today (2/9/2020) the game won't be completed. One gameplay issue we had was when taking a screenshot with an iPhone the screen goes white which, in game, blocks your view of enemies for a moment, so maybe have the game freeze for a bit while screenshotting and give a short description of enemies currently in screen (as advertised). Also, the OST is great, we hope it gets published literally anywhere like Bandcamp or Spotify.
Really great game, but the spin power is hard to control.
We barely started this game and we instantly fell in love, our phone was at 93, brightness 25, things went pretty smoothly at first, after 3 minutes it became a bullet hell and we died in the most stunning way possible, we were smiling because we died because we thought about how cool everything was and whats to await us, if there isnt customization on your own character yet, we would love to see that, will do a future review of explaining more in depth towards end of week for the devs.
Yeah, so we really like your game, but Im confused. It wasnt on our phone when we turned it off, but then it was when we turned it back on. Was this preorderable and we just forgot? XD we really love the concept though.
We have never before seen an app anything like this. Ive only played a little, but the way it uses every function of your phone is amazing. Battery life changes how many lives you get, screenshot to find out about enemies, increase or decrease volume or brightness to change the enemies you see and what they do, its amazing. So far it seems there isnt much progression here, thats all we ask for. Concept is fantastic.
The game just came out so it is not finished but it says it's unique to every moment it's not true becouse the battery doesn't change anything except the lives and there is only three color palettes and the shooting is not very fun becouse the bad guys have to much health and it is to fast paced for a calm game but a unique concept so we hope it improves.
So the game is overall good, but the thing is there is nothing to upgrade or switch too but if you like to see how long u last then its awesome! Please try the game its really cool.
Our mutatis will not change in real time! How do you fix this.
We love this game! However, the only way Ive found the game changes is through brightness and volume. Nothing else seems to change actual gameplay. If the game gave you information or hints on what could change the game, that would be great. If these arent already in the game, and if they are possible, here are some suggestions to change this game. Airplane mode, blue tooth, WiFi, cellular, the altitude the device is at, low power mode, and time. We think if any of these could change how the game plays, it would be more unique to each moment.
Its actually a kinda cool game that takes your phones brightness and motions into account. There are different things you can do like take pictures of the monsters you are fighting and then see them later. Havent seen the lil ship mutate yet but Im anxious for what it will turn into. Sadly it kills our battery so fast. Our phone was at 100% when we started and is now at 45% 15 min later. Not sure if its cause of our own battery life or what but its still a cool game.
Its a really nice battleship shooting game with different enemies and different effects. The only thing we don't want is titling the phone to aim wit your battleship. If you could disable that in settings, we would be much happier.
We didnt download this app and we have it. Thats all.
Claims to be a new type of scroller-shooter. As far as we got, nothing new but that might be because we didn't get too far as we were frustrated by the game repeatedly freezing. But it's free.
Just downloaded this on our we pad and we cannot play it. The game is very zoomed in and the size of a phone on the screen. We do not know why it says compatible with iPad if it isnt.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.3
- Size: 83.13 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Victor Pineles]()
Last updated: 8th February 2020 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Victor Pineles