Wild Bastards
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $5.24.
- Length
- 15.2h 17.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 799 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 85% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
The spiritual successor to the award-winning game Void Bastards, Wild Bastards is a roguelike strategy shooter with heart-pounding FPS action, mod management, and a tactical campaign. Saddle up and lead the most notorious outlaws in the galaxy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 24 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $5.24 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Void Bastards ($29.99, scores 64) and Tower of Guns ($14.99, scores 54) both outscore it.
More about Wild Bastards
Of the 454 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 16 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 17 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 123 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
91% start to 12% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Like this game a lot Pros: It has quick, fun, tight gunfights with rich sci-fi western flavour 13 characters that feels and plays really differently Cons: story ends without much satisfaction (one can argue that it's rather open ended and naturally leads into playing other modes next, but that's not quite what normally expected from the story, right?) So gameplay and characters rules but story sucks, also...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
My favorite indie game of all time is Void Bastards which is criminally underrated and underplayed, but this game is far from the great game that that game was. It's not bad, but it is for sure far from great. In Void Bastards it was just one map, not map on map with encounter after encounter that brings you out of combat and back to the map constantly in this game. It can be confusing at first, however as simple as...
Should have named it "Wet Noodles" because this is what it feels. Calling this a "Void Bastards" successor is just unhinged. Void Bastards had a perfectly balanced gunplay, every mistake of weapon choice or encounter choice was 95% entirely on you (random sometimes can screw you over). You could rely on your aiming and weapon knowledge skills and gear / weapons progression felt rewarding with every upgrade. I...
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Cite this score
Wild Bastards scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1660840/wild-bastardsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.