Wild Bastards

Blue Manchu's creative hybrid combines whip-fast shootouts with thoughtful cowboy management.

Blue Manchu's spiritual successor to Void Bastards is every bit as complex, challenging, and rewarding as that earlier gem.

Wild Bastards is everything a Rougelite should be: challenging, fun, stylish and deeply engaging.

A fantastic roguelite with fast-paced action, light-hearted humour, and a great cast of characters. Though it may wear on you on a long play session, Wild Bastards has earned its place as Void Bastard’s successor.

Wild Bastards is a sequel that tries to mod some of the gameplay mechanics of the original, but loses steam along the way

A space western roguelike that mixes strategic planning with flashy gunplay to create a worthy successor to Void Bastards.

Which is a shame overall, because Wild Bastards has a robust core that just isn’t balanced. There’s obvious appeal in it, but only for the most persistent gamers who are capable of looking beyond some glaring flaws. In the end, it’s wild wild west in space, just as the theme of the game illustrates so well.

Spiritual sequel to Void Bastards, Wild Bastards changes up the formula but isn't necessarily the better for it. Its board game-like maps introduce some strategy, but its basic first-person shooter Showdowns disappoint, as do some of its other underdeveloped elements.

The novelty of a 13-character cast is a solid hook for Wild Bastards, but a myriad of streamlined and sidelined elements compromise its potential to the point of becoming a trip to outer space that you won't remember for long after hitting credits.

Wild Bastards is a rogue-lite strategy shooter and that fact alone is going to make it a divisive experience, especially in today’s dopamine-hungry, power fantasy climate fueled by low attention spans that take offense at the mere mention of rubbing two brain cells together in order to play a game.

A Wild Ride with untapped potential

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