Just don't expect to feel totally satisfied once you escape to the right nebula. That's not to say you shouldn't let yourself enjoy all that this charming, stressful game has to offer. Unfortunately, its overall structure and narrative will leave you feeling empty by the end. Void Bastards is many things when you get your hands on it, but the most important influences that it draws from all combine to form a game that feels uniquely witty, addictively compelling and satisfyingly deep to explore thanks to tight gameplay, a colourful comic book visuals and a style all of its own.īetween its compelling art direction, surprisingly complex strategic decisions, and inventive weaponry, there's a lot much to love in Void Bastards. Void Bastards is not very special, and is not the first title that mixes FPS with Roguelike, but nevertheless the final package is fun and different from most titles, and you'll probably spend hours after hours enjoying it. It’s a wonderfully simple but compelling process that creates an infinite supply of tense set pieces, all of which are created on-the-fly by decisions you make – rather than being some heavily orchestrated design of the developer.BaziCenter - Sina Golab Zadeh - Persian - 8 / 10
You need a constant supply of food and fuel to keep going, so that’s a limiting factor, but other than that it’s down to you to judge the risk versus reward, as you slowly run out of health and oxygen and you debate whether or not it’s worth searching just one more room for a vital component. Along the way you’ll want to pick up other items to help you craft new weapons and equipment, but technically you’re not forced to do anything and the choice of whether to board a ship and when to leave are entirely up to you. The structure of the game involves moving through a nebula filled with abandoned spaceships, and strangely mutated passengers, looking for various materials needed to escape. It’s a far more consistent and appealing art style than Borderlands and as low-tech as using 2D sprites is it certainly gives the game a distinctive look that we never got bored of, despite the randomly designed ship interiors being based on only a handful of basic templates. What does impress though are the cel-shaded graphics, which look exactly like a comic book brought to life. When your character dies you do lose everything they’re carrying, and their unique attributes, but all the equipment and weapons they’ve obtained can be used by the next poor soul that comes along. Although while the game is certainly difficult it’s not aggressively so. The key elements are permadeath and randomly-generated levels, both of which are core to Void Bastards. Void Bastards is a roguelike, and while most similar games are top down dungeon crawlers the genre isn’t really limited to any particular style of combat or presentation. But honestly… we’ll get to the good bits in just a second. The game also has a very crude sense of humour and uses 2D sprites for enemies, instead of 3D models. Even the shooting is very simplistic, with no aiming down sights or any attempt at realism.
It has the same first person perspective as those two high-brow classics but there’s almost no story and nothing that really counts as proper role-playing.
Although you wouldn’t really guess from playing it, Void Bastards is by one of the key creators of System Shock 2 and Bioshock.
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