After Renegade Kid's dissolution, Watsham's company Atooi acquired the rights to the game; a Nintendo Switch compilation, titled Mutant Mudds Collection, was released in December 2017.

The PC version, due to the fact that 3D visuals aren't standard, uses a depth of field effect when it jumps between the background and foreground.

There is a door labeled "CGA-land", "G-land" or "V-land" hidden somewhere in each area, and entering it transports Max to a short, but challenging, secret stage needed to fully complete the game.

By collecting enough golden diamonds, Max can unlock upgrades that he can equip one at a time: an extended jetpack for crossing larger gaps, a rocket jump for reaching high up areas and a bazooka for breaking through barriers.

It shows two people, one of them, Max, the main protagonist, sitting in a small living room and playing a video game, until a large meteor suddenly hits.

The scene fades to black, then shows a news station on TV reporting on a "Muddy" invasion, and equipped with only a water gun and a jetpack, Max goes to stop the Mutant Mudds not long after.

Mutant Mudds was developed and published by Renegade Kid, best known for its first-person shooters Moon and the Dementium series on the Nintendo DS.

[1][3] According to Watsham, a team of four designers at Renegade Kid spent two weeks modifying the 3D graphical engine from Moon to create an early, polygonal incarnation of the game.

In late 2010, Renegade posted a request to obtain the support of 1,000 fans to justify distributing the game on DSiWare via the Nintendo DSi.

[8][9] It was specifically inspired by a number of earlier platfomers including Super Mario World, Gargoyle's Quest, and Virtual Boy Wario Land.

[2][10] The last of these three games utilizes a 3D mechanic in which the player jumps between three different planes in the foreground and background, an effect Watsham attempted to build-upon for Mutant Mudds on the 3DS.

[12] Renegade Kid was greatly satisfied with the finished product and its reception, which Watsham attributed to the designers' full creative control over the game's development.

"It was important for us to have Mutant Mudds released as soon as possible on the eShop, while maintaining the same quality and scope we originally envisioned for the game," Watsham explained.

[10][13] Mutant Mudds has been well received by most critics, holding an average score of 82% on GameRankings and 80% on Metacritic with praise for its level design and gameplay.

The story is similar, where Max goes to investigate another meteorite crash and is set to retrieve 45 Water Sprites to stop the Mudds' invasion on Earth.