A video game adaptation named Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden was released December 2018.

The result, titled Mutant, was written by Gunilla Jonsson & Michael Petersén with illustrations by Nils Gulliksson.

[2]: 209 In 1989, Äventyrsspel published a second edition that switched to a cyberpunk setting heavily inspired by the Blade Runner movie, with new character options.

The campaign setting was similar to the 1989 version but in Mutant RYMD the corporations put much effort into space exploration and colonization, eventually reaching a fictional tenth planet named Nero and awakening an evil, supernatural force that attacks the solar system.

After the reconstruction of Target Games and the transfer of its intellectual property to Paradox Entertainment, a new version of Mutant was published under license to a company called Järnringen in 2002.

This version, Mutant - Undergångens arvtagare ("Mutant - Heirs of the Apocalypse"), returned to the idea of the original, a post-apocalyptic campaign setting but then created a brand new civilization called Pyrisamfundet freely combining elements of 1700s, 1800s and 1900s Scandinavian society but still with mutated monsters and dangerous radiated zones.

[3] In År Noll, and in future expansions, players can play through the emergence of the mutants, the mutated animals, the robots and finally the non-mutated humans into the ravaged world.

År Noll uses a custom set of rules based on the physical and psychological hardships of surviving in a post-apocalyptic world.

År Noll was translated into English by Fria Liga's English-language department, Free League Publishing and released as Mutant: Year Zero in December 2014.

[4][5] In his 2023 book Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, RPG historian Stu Horvath noted, "At Chaosium's height during the '80s, the company used Basic Role-Playing to crank out classic games and support materials that proved to be hugely influential to the hobby, at large.