I would not recommend it and I'm very thankful that it was on Game Pass and I didn't buy it. It took me a month and a half to finish a six hour game. The only similarity is that they are both first-person. For some reason the advertising compared this to Bioshock, which makes no sense to me after playing it. The cheapest graphics, the cheapest mechanics, cheapest cutscenes. I get that all game developers don't have a huge budget to work with, but the only word that kept coming to mid for this game was “lazy”. Usually they would float so they didn't need walking animation. The thing that really made it feel crumby was the enemies looking like paper cut outs moving across the screen. The graphics are cell shaded, which is fine in games like Borderlands. The ships can also have random variables like limited oxygen or complete darkness to make things more difficult. When stealth inevitable failed, I found myself just running as fast as I could through each ship to pick up anything I could reach. Deaths come cheaply while you are trying to find supplies and components and you do almost no damage to any enemies. Most spaces that you stop at on the board game map have a ship to explore, which could have been neat, but because each ship is randomized it winds up feeling repetitive and frustrating. Even in the cutscenes the inmate has a helmet on so the designers didn't have to worry about what they look like.
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The inmates have no spoken lines and nothing really distinguishes them is a trait or two (One may be taller or faster, or better with guns). If you should die on these excursions, you are jumped back to the beginning of the board game map in the shoes of another inmate. Bring the components back and get sent out for another set of components for a different device, until the game ends. Then you are put into they eyes of a generic inmate with a basic set of supplies to hop from ship to ship on a board game-esque map to find the components for these devices. Stuff like “You need a Printer to print a Citizen Card to escape the Nebula” and “The Printer broke, so you need a Cooling Device so it doesn't overheat”. They are supposed to be funny, but missed the mark for me. There are a few comic book style cutscenes (The cheapest type of cutscene) depicting the AI instructing you what to make next.
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Ultimately, the AI may have turned on you at the very end in a climactic battle to free your fellow inmates. Struggling to survive while encountering the other inhabitants of the Nebula, having to trade goods and make complex moral choices. I was picturing a group of rag-tag convicts reluctantly working with an AI for the everyone's survival. Now, that seems like a fantastic premise for a story. The ship's AI pulls you out of storage in order to find a way to free the ship and escape the nebula. The game has you taking on the role of an inmate (or several) on a prison starship that has been stuck in a Nebula along with a bunch of other ships. Some people may love it, but I definitely didn't. I completely misunderstood what type of game this was. Some people may love it, but I 1/26/21-3/12/21 100% Story This one is on me.
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You’ll even enjoy Void Bastards if you only have a slight interest in the genre. Void Bastards has blown a breath of new life into the FPS genre, and it gets so much right that it makes this game a must buy for fans of the genre.
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Unfortunately despite the replay ability the game doesn’t have a huge amount of content for you to finish which is little disappointing in the end, because the content that's there is packed full of style, fun and humor. In regards to crafting the elements actually feel important to the game, and there’s a number of different items you can create which does give the game some replay ability. Fans of the genre then will be pleased that the shooting elements are tight and responsive and that the combat has a surprising amount of depth to it along with plenty of weapons to use and craft. Void Bastards is an FPS, but it’s not like other games in this genre so if you’re looking for something different then this game will be refreshing in that sense. This uniqueness is felt almost immediately thanks to its cartoon visuals and solid sound design which stay vibrant throughout your journey.
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This uniqueness is felt almost Void Bastards certainly has a unique name but so are the gameplay and the comic book visuals within it. Void Bastards certainly has a unique name but so are the gameplay and the comic book visuals within it.