

Void Bastards launches on PC and Xbox One May 29. It’s looking like it’s set going to be a lot of fun, and fortunately we won’t have to wait much longer to try it out for ourselves. However, in perfect balance (as all things should be) Void Bastards could ultimately prove to be one of the year’s biggest surprises. The gameplay loop of Live, Loot, Die, Repeat is addicting and the games clever way of saving progression.

Essentially, it’s at risk of becoming overbooked as it widens the net to include every buzz cultures currently in gaming. Im so surprised by how much I loved Void Bastards. Void Bastards is a first-person shooter that also features, strategy, independent character skillsets, crafting and scavenging elements, procedural generation, multiple choices, sardonic comedy, open-ended gameplay and other roguelike tropes. Each move you make depletes your food stocks, and you can choose to.

Players guide teams of nothing-to-lose prisoners – each equipped with their own skillsets – through a series of procedurally-generated vessels, completing missions and fighting it out with a slew of enemies. Void Bastards is a ‘strategy shooter’ in which every choice must be arrived at carefully, starting with its FTL-style metagame. Void Bastards takes comic-book visuals, eccentric characters, and an irreverent sense of humour, and mixes it with strategic gameplay and an improvisational approach to weapons and events. Void Bastards blends multiple gameplay elements, many of which may be familiar to fans of titles such as Rage and Borderlands. Publisher Humble Bundle, in association with developer Blue Manchu, has announced that space shooter Void Bastards will launch on PC and Xbox One May 29, and will be made available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers on launch.
