Wild Bastards has got killer style and ideas, but feels like a scattered shotgun blast instead of a bullseye | Gaming

Blue Manchu’s Void Bastards, published back in the day by Humble Games, was a ‘strategy-shooter’ roguelike I enjoyed enough to grab twice, one DRM-free and another on Steam. More than five years later after its launch, Wild Bastards is taking things in a new direction I haven’t been vibing with.

I was really excited to jump into this one. It looked remarkably stylish and breezy, the sort of perfect indie release for the pre-autumn AAA madness period. Unfortunately, my first few hours with it have been middling, and I was wondering whether I wasn’t in the right headspace for it, yet some reviews are echoing many of my feelings.

From the get-go, it becomes abundantly clear Wild Bastards is…