Some rooms have tea dispensers inside that can boost your speed and damage for a short while. Alternatively, some rooms can also be chock full of various security drones that can blow you away in an instant. Some rooms may have a machine that can rewrite your DNA, giving you new genetic buffs, or removing negative genetic traits. ![]() The ships themselves can be full of surprises, as most rooms have things you can use to survive your stay onboard. The stealth can be kind of iffy though, as you don’t really get an indication of how hidden you are, and it seemed at times that it was very easy to be seen by the various monsters wandering around the ships. ![]() Shooting everything won't always be the best solution however, and sometimes running away from enemies, or stealthing your way through a room is a better course of action. When you board a craft, your time is limited by oxygen, you’re under threat from enemies, and you may only have a fraction of your health. The combat feels pretty good, although I had to fool around with the sensitivity a bit to get it just right. Void Bastards is incredibly tense and challenging. The tension tends to come more from you realizing you’re being overwhelmed, or that some of the enemies are just too tough for you to kill right now, which leads to panic because you’re about to lose all the progress you just made. The game obviously is going more for laughs than scares, but there are times when an enemy can sneak up on you, and catch you by surprise. It’s a fun loop, and venturing deep into the ships can be a pretty rewarding experience that borders on creepy at times. If your character dies, you get a new prisoner, with new traits, and have to start back at the beginning of the map. Some may be really good at unlocking doors, while others may breathe too heavily and expend their oxygen faster. You also only have so much oxygen, and if you don’t watch your O2 meter, you die.Įach prisoner has different genetic traits that either help or hinder them. Run out of any of that stuff, and you’re going to have a bad time. You also need fuel to power your ship as it jumps around, and you need ammo so you can shoot your way out of bad situations. You can eat food to get some of it back, but if you run out of food during trips, you lose health, and you can starve to death. ![]() Full of variables, it invites the player to experiment and be experimented upon. When an enemy shoots you, your health doesn’t regenerate when you get back to your main ship. Void Bastards is a pure, crystalline distillation of the immersive sim genre - all the feeling with none of the fluff. There are certain factors to keep in mind though. From there, you can either shoot your way through, or try to stealth your way around the vessel. The other part is going into the derelict ships, retrieving anything you can find, and fighting off various accented baddies along the way. The game is basically broken into two parts, with an overworld map where you can decide to go next, as well as a menu where can craft new gizmos, or weapons to help you on your various excursions.
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