Wild Bastards Steam Charts & Stats

Thoroughly enjoyed this so far. It's much more tactical than I realized, but that's a pleasant surprise.

I genuinely wanted to like this because I love everything from the aesthetic to the ost but jeez the gameplay is boring. It doesn't get neither the Rogue Lite nor the Shooter parts of it (especially the latter which is straight bad and just not fun at all). This would've been better as a Tabletop game 4/10

Pretty good, not as good as Void Bastards, but I like it a lot.

Neat art style, some neat mechanics, skills, etc. Shooting feels alright. Some nice turn-based map mechanics (even if, I swear it almost feels like a big chunk of this game is cooked for mobile platforms in some ways) Also, maybe its max difficulty thing, but you have ranged enemies shooting THROUGH massive rocks, and some other debris from a good chunk of arena away? Feels weird. It's a decent game overall, has some depth to it here and there. But I'd suggest getting it on a discount. Not sure if prices are as big for this one in other countries, but yeah. I guess people like to compare it to Void Bastards? Not sure, they seem to be bit too different. And this one feels less boring than Boid Nerds.

This game tries to be... something unique. I get that. But it really just kind of fails at everything. I only very rarely submit for refunds, but I did in this case because this game just doesn't provide anywhere near the experience it should. I never played the first game, Void Bastards, but I can say for a fact that this isn't something I recommend. It's a turn based strategy game of a sort? But... only minimally so, because the maps really only offer a couple choices and routes. You have a number of move points, but it's really a veneer because there aren't any real choices. Later in the game, they start to put some pressure on you by having things chase you on the map... but those fights aren't fair, so all it really does is add a turn limit to the game. The first person shooter combat is not good. I'm not sure how, in 2025, you can mess up first person shooter combat but... yeah it's really slow and awkward. Bullets travel through terrain sometimes, sometimes they just travel through enemies for no reason without doing damage... the aiming reticle is really bad, and "aiming down the sight" just reshapes it rather than do anything substantive. The different "bastards" all feel unique. Or at least the ones I've tried. But it doesn't save the FPS combat from being a slow, clunky experience that doesn't feel fluid. The graphics are... well you may like them, you may not. They aren't superb. They are very, very simplistic and made in a kind of retro neon color palette. My issue isn't the retro look or feel, it's just that everything is so blocky... it's almost like this was meant for a mobile phone screen or something. On a big monitor it looks kind of ridiculous how blocky and flat everything is. Overall just kind of a poor experience in all respects. I would avoid this one.

It's no where near the experience of their previous game by a similar name. Its just not that fun at all. There was a certain charm that was compelling within Void Bastards. VB made you excited to move from ship to ship sector to sector with an exciting desire to loot for items to build the latest recipe but here it was very stale very quickly. They try to make it exciting with the characters but the voice acting and story never hooks you from the jump. If they just gave me a DLC for VB, I would have been far more excited for that than this..

So this is just a first impression review of someone who hasn't played void bastards: It's really fun and well polished and has great art. Now I bought it for 13 euros on sale so no idea how I feel about the 35 euro tag because at the end of the day that is very much about how much content there is because the quality and production value is there.

Highly recommend if its on sale. If its not on sale, I would not recommend though.

PREAMBLE: For starters; I am a huge fan of this studio's previous title, Void Bastards, and have played it through several times. Wild Bastards share a lot of DNA with it's elder sibling, but where Void Bastards focused on the importance of stealth and being a diligent scavenger, Wild Bastards lean in another direction. Wild Bastards is much more direct action oriented game, rewarding charging into the fray - this was an aspect I often tried to get from Void Bastards, because of the amazing weaponry and skills in that game. Both games have you start out at a severely underpowered point, but in Wild Bastards, as you build your characters you have a better chance of seeing each of them shine to their fullest. GAMEPLAY: This game is for you if you enjoy: - class-based First Person Shooters - crisp, beautiful comic book-/graphic novel-like art styles - well written inter-party banter - rogue-likes/rogue-lites, but also want a bit of story This game centers around a character-rich roster of well-written- and acted cowboy-pulp action heroes. Each plays differently and you get to pair them up so you can try out different combinations. I thoroughly enjoyed overland/space push-your-luck planning and resource management - even though they seem to build on the same core, it seems fairly expanded from the systems that was seen in Void Bastards. THE CHALLENGE MODE: When I unlocked the Challenge mode and tried it out, I was frustrated at first. This was mainly because I had gotten used to the upgraded versions of my heroes, but as I examined each challenge and approached them each as a puzzle, I started to enjoy them immensely. I had to assess the drawbacks of the challenge and measure them against the advantages my heroes (potentially) offered and lean into my the strengths I had at my disposal. Before I knew it, I had played through a nice chuck of them and had a ball doing it! And I managed to unlock neat gear for future playthroughs. CONCLUSION: If you enjoyed the gameplay or the look of Void Bastards and enjoy action games, you are going to have a great time with Wild Bastards! I am huge fan of both and can't wait to see what new games come out from Blue Manchu in the future.

Slick presentation and art style, but I felt that the core combat gameplay was posed as a punishment and should be avoided in order to maintain resources. I spent longer in menus than I did in combat areas; and I don't think it was a good balance. I can imagine the same systems retooled without the opportunity cost map system and focused entirely on a streamlined arena-to-arena gameplay loop, but even that doesn't seem like quite enough to turn this concept around for me. I felt mostly under equipped to deal with the enemies by the second area of the game in a way that I think is a step back from Void Bastards where combat needed not be head-on at all. I disagree with the spiritual successor description, conceptually it might take place in a similar world but the core gameplay is basically a different genre of first person shooter.