Void Bastards

Void Bastards

Fair · Roguelike · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
86% positive
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Price
$29.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
86%
5,436 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
81
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon 7850 2GB, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 571 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

January 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 7 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 33 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Eldritch ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Tower of Guns ($14.99, scores 53).

This site sampled 571 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 457 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

96% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 09:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

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Void Bastards scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/857980/void-bastards
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Reviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+5
Critics
81
Players
86
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 5,436 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBlue Manchu
PublisherBlue Manchu
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Achievements24