About This Game Forget everything you know about first-person shooters: Void Bastards asks you to take charge, not just point your gun and fire. Your task is to lead the rag-tag Void Bastards out of the Sargasso Nebula. You make the decisions: where to go, what to do and who to fight. And then you must carry out that strategy in the face of strange and terrible enemies.On board derelict spaceships you’ll plan your mission, taking note of the ship layout, what hazards and enemies you might encounter and what terminals and other ship systems you can use to your advantage..Move carefully through the dangerous ships, searching for supplies and manipulating control systems. React to what you find - will you detour to the generator to bring the power back online or will you fight your way into the security module to disable the ship’s defenses? Choose carefully when to fight, when to run and when just to be a bastard.Use your hard won supplies to improvise tools and weapons, from the distracting robo-kitty to the horribly unstable clusterflak.Navigate your tiny escape pod through the vast nebula. Flee from void whales and pirates, and politely avoid the hungry hermits. All the while you must keep scavenging for the food, fuel, and other resources that keep you alive.Void Bastards features a 12-15 hour campaign that you can complete with an endless supply of prisoners, each with their own unique traits. When one dies, another steps forward to carry on the fight. Don’t worry though, as any crafting progress you’ve made is retained from one to another. 7aa9394dea Title: Void BastardsGenre: Action, StrategyDeveloper:Blue ManchuPublisher:Humble BundleRelease Date: 28 May, 2019 Void Bastards Activation Code [Xforce] I've got 6.6 hours in Void Bastards. I've beaten the game. I enjoyed the game, and may play more of it. Perhaps the challenges or going deeper into the Nebula (thereby increasing the difficulty) will allow me to get some more playtime out of it. The thing is I'm afraid I might have already seen most of everything. The gameplay gets a bit repetitive, but it had me hooked in the gameplay loop of "go loot stuff and make your things better." And going back and doing it again is less enticing because I already did most of the upgrades.While the game totes itself as a "strategy shooter" there isn't that much strategy involved. Your loadout, which you decide prior to boarding a derelict ship, is usually determined by whatever the game tells you the ship contains. The issue is that several of your options aren't very good. Or maybe just that some of the others are TOO good? Or just don't matter all that much, outside of the obvious fact you wouldn't want to pick a gun that only has 5 shots left.More of an issue on my part, I thought the game was going to lean into rogue-like elements more. In reality, the in-game thing of playing a myriad of characters because they keep dying is just a meta-justification for you dying and continuing the game. There's not really that much different between characters - you get "traits" but there seems to be a maximum of three, and there are events in-game that can randomize one of the ones you have. So there's no real value in staying alive, as I think you only lose whatever you picked up on that particular derelict. I say "I think" because I only died twice, both to pirates, and one of which was probably "mandated." Technically, I died two other times, but the game gives you a heart-restarting item that rezzes you at full health so the deaths didn't "count."TL;DR: The game is fun, it has some character to it but not a ton, but enough to make it stand out. The gameplay is fun for most of the game's short run time, but it lacks the "strategy" it claims to be going for and ends up being very samey.Do I recommend the game? Ehhh? It's good but not great, if you're aware of the shortcomings and still want in go for it. Personally I'm not going to go out of my way to recommend it to people unless it's on sale.. Looks and controls nice, but doesn't really have any compelling gameplay. You go around a FTL-like map, dock with the same ~20 ships and pick up a bunch of junk in an FPS roguelike kind of game. You use this junk to upgrade your character across playthroughs. -bigger guns, more hp, etc.Gunplay is alright, but it doesn't feel rewarding to kill enemies, once your character gets around 1000 HP you can just run around the ship and pick everything up. Kept waiting for something interesting to happen, but every ship is more or less the same.Haven't completed the game, so something might happen lategame, but I'm not holding out any hope.. There's something to like here, at first. The idea is solid, go from ship to ship, scavenging for supplies, and encountering weird and unknown hazards and enemies. Sadly, the weird and unknown became all too familiar way too quickly. If you go in expecting a roguelike which offers a new experience with each death, you'll be sorely disappointed. The ships are all small collections of samey looking corridors and square rooms. Weapons and resources carry over between death, so you'll be fighting the same enemies with the same tools each time.That being said, If you're just interested in the grind, if might not bother you as much as it did me.The game's fine, it's just spread way too thin for my taste.. This game has some really cool stuff going for it but it's held back by some tedious elements. For example, rather than looting 20-30 spots around the ship, I'd rather loot 3-4 that actually had substantial loot in them. They could still be spread out in the far corners of the ship, and perhaps they're not marked explicitly (for example, you know that one of the chests is in the generator room but not where in the room so you have to look around a bit). It just felt tedious to loot so many drawers and boxes to be rewarded with just measly scraps of resources. Honestly this one thing could make the game 50% more fun IMO. I just don't want to click on drawers and boxes all day...Other things: the art and tone of the game is spot on. Looks great, sounds great.Specific things: I think the stun gun is too powerful for countering turrets. There's a lot of interesting gameplay to be found relating to turrets and their interactions with power and hacking etc, and I think the stun gun actually counters a lot of fun that is to be had there. And on the other hand, the kitty robot isn't good enough at drawing fire for it to be worth using. The explosion isn't isn't reliable because often it just runs into the corner and blows up away from all the enemies you were trying to kill. There's a lot of potential here but for me it's more tedious than fun in the current state.. The idea is great and the style is awesome. But it got tedious fast. I think this could be a very good game once they made more for it.. VB is a rather inventive first-person shooter, where levels are randomly assembled (from prefabricated room tiles) and you are tasked with looting various space-faring vessels for supplies and resources. This is handled in a somewhat Bioshock-esque manner, as anything that has loot in it is glowing green and you generally don't have to worry about inventory space. It being randomized implies some degree of Roguelikeness, though I will stress that death is not necessarily permanent. Dying in VB aborts the current level (you'll never see it again), but you keep all of the upgrades and parts you had before you entered said level. So it's not really permadeath.I'm rather a fan of the game's highly comic-styled look, very British sense of humor, and the presence of the Stanley Parable narrator as your onboard AI. At the price point you get for having the coupon, I'd recommend it.. Starts a bit slow, but gets addictive really fast. The steady upgrade system allows you to delve deeper into the Nebula whenever you want, so you can take your time with the main quest and keep on pillaging the shallowish depths. The bad accuracy on the starting pistol is a bit annoying, but you get the poison pistol soon, which has better aim. Artstyle is super pretty.. Hard mode is actually hard and the roguelike "pillage a massive debris field of derelict spacecraft for supplies to survive and gear up" is actually something I've been wanting to play\/develop myself for a while. The excellent presentation, artstyle and tongue-in-cheek story\/setting are a nice bonus. Only "con" so far is that there aren't a huge amount of options for conserving ammo resources in a lot of scenarios. Some sort of melee weapon would be a welcome addition.. I am a Original System Shock 2 Player & Fan, and i gotta say, this game is a pure Gem, all this thing would need more is co-op !
Void Bastards Activation Code [Xforce]
Updated: Mar 30, 2020
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