Walking instead of crouching by that one remaining gunpoint. Slowly asphyxiating as I forgot to resupply my oxygen levels. There were many times when I was attached to my particular inmate and their weird traits-the smoker whose lungs I healed or the shallow breather whose scavenging I improved-but my hopes would be dashed on the asteroids of space as I forgot a variable. I enjoyed my time in Void Bastards, and I’d like to return on a harder difficulty. Void Bastards frees the player to follow any variation or combination of those strategies.Īnd while you’re deciding how to navigate in space, the story will unfold in amusing ways the narrative will leave you flying through the void with an itchy trigger finger from all the enemies and a scratchy throat from all the wry chuckles. But if you want to rush in guns blazing and blast away the nebula interlopers that inhabit a derelict vessel, that’s fine. If you want to stealth through the spaceship, pick up supplies, and head out without a fight, that’s possible. Blow them up with a proximity mine.īlueprints for so many weapons and tools can be constructed so there is no wrong way to approach an excursion. Shoot enemies with a pistol, or a stapler, or a laser gun. Improvised weapons, hilarious tools, and comedy abound. This is an open strategy game that encourages you to forge your own path through the Sargasso Nebula.Īnd you get to do all of it while watching fabulous comic-book art reveal the story. Which vessels to board, which enemies to fight, how long to stay on board the spaceship, when to escape, and what parts to build. The show must go on.īut the game lets you decide what to do. In order to see an inmate perish, a new one reborn, and the story continues. The game even sets you up to fail in the beginning. You will die.īut that’s okay because there is an endless supply of prisoners, and they can all be rehydrated to finish the mission. Whether you run out of oxygen, are killed by hostile forces onboard a spaceship, starve, or get flattened by a void whale, it doesn’t matter. Void Bastards is a rogue-like FPS that expects you to die. And follow the instructions from your penal supervisors.
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