Action · May 28, 2019

Void Bastards (2019)

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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.

Action releases from 2019

192 Action titles launched in 2019 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • FPS · 269
  • Action Roguelike · 250
  • Singleplayer · 236
  • Shooter · 234
  • Rogue-like · 233
  • Immersive Sim · 232
  • Stealth · 220
  • Comic Book · 219
  • First-Person · 218
  • Strategy · 210
  • Procedural Generation · 209
  • Space · 207
  • Stylized · 207
  • Sci-fi · 206
  • Action · 203

Peer Action titles

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Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume5.3k Steam reviewsTop 58% in Action
Positive rating86% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 53%
Metacritic81/100Genre average 77 — top 36% of Action titles
Engagement hours8 h averageTop 53% for session depth among Action

Reception Metrics

Steam community

86%Very Positive · 5.3k reviews

4.5k positive · 737 negative

Metacritic

81/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

7.4/10

Curator recommendations

3.8k

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (9)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Simplified Chinese

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

8h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

4h

Typical completion time

Achievements

24

Steam unlocks available

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateMay 28, 2019
DeveloperBlue Manchu
Base price$8.99 -70%
DLC / Add-ons2 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

Content Notes

Includes cartoon violence and gore. Strong language.

Editions & Packages

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