Comic model strategy-shooter Void Bastards introduced

Developers Blue Manchu are turning their sights in the direction of the primary particular person shooter style with the brand new announcement of Void Bastards. It’s fairly a distinction from their earlier work, the collectable card/board game Card Hunter, however they are saying to not count on your typical FPS both. Take a have a look at the trailer to see for your self:

It’s a comic book e book model “strategy-shooter,” and so they say you’ll want good planning simply as a lot nearly as good goal to get issues carried out. A form of “ask questions first, shoot later,” if you’ll.

Players will likely be main a bunch of area convicts by harmful spaceships with the intention to scavenge all the most effective area loot. In area! In the Sargasso Nebula, particularly. All the members of the group can have their very own traits, although in the event that they die off you will get replacements from “an endless supply of prisoners.” Once you’ve acquired sufficient fine details out of your adventures, you’ll be capable of repurpose them into varied weapons and instruments for future journeys, together with one thing known as a “distracting robo-kitty” which you’ll see briefly within the trailer. Campaigns ought to final someplace between 12 and 15 hours.

The builders say that the game is impressed by BioShock and System Shock 2, which is helpful as a result of it’s being led by Jonathan Chey, co-founder of Irrational Games, the studio behind each.

Void Bastards doesn’t have a launch date but past “2019,” nevertheless it does have a web page on the Humble and Steam shops.

[Disclosure: ex-RPS contributor Cara Ellison is a narrative designer on Void Bastards.]