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Move carefully through the dangerous ships, searching for supplies and manipulating control systems. 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. And then you must carry out that strategy in the face of strange and terrible enemies. You make the decisions: where to go, what to do and who to fight. Your task is to lead the rag-tag Void Bastards out of the Sargasso Nebula. So there you go, despite a few technical issues, some unique to this game and others that are basically Switch Report staples at this point, you can still go in knowing you’re going to have a fun time with a game that really is a great fit for handheld gaming.Forget everything you know about first-person shooters: Void Bastards asks you to take charge, not just point your gun and fire. With a beautiful art style, tremendous humour (and great voice work to boot), and a fun loot-upgrade-repeat mechanic surging through its core, it’d be a shame to not recommend it. Void Bastards remains a slept-on gem, that, despite Game Pass, seemed to vanish as quickly as it came. It maybe sounds worse than it is, because what you’re left with here is a solid if not spectacular port of a game that people seemed to talk about for five minutes and then forget. I’d say it happens at least twice per mission, maybe more the longer you are looting a ship of its sandwiches, parts, and fuel. It’s like the game is catching up, though it never got behind in the first place. There is a seemingly random frame-skip issue, though, that will almost push you along suddenly. It’s not a smooth 60fps, but it’s acceptable. I’m growing to accept this kind of trade-off the longer the Switch gets great games to it, but Void Bastards also has a peculiar frame-rate issue. Ultimately this isn’t a huge issue, when playing the shooter-sections, which is the bulk of the action, it’s visually the same game, albeit a lower quality overall image.

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You can, thankfully, adjust the borders to suit your needs, but regardless of this, blown up on a TV screen the text is tiny and even people in my household with 20/20 vision struggle to read the font chosen for Void Bastards’ text. Put simply, the whites that surround the comic book that is the game draw the eye away from already small text. The combination of a lower overall resolution and that gorgeous visual flair actually works against Void Bastards. First up, the age old problem of tiny text rears its head here. Some you’d expect, and others that are surprising. Making the jump to Nintendo Switch has brought with it a few problems, however. A sublime comic-book aesthetic that cleverly doesn’t over-complicate the action with aiming down sights, or complex mechanics when actually running and gunning, it was an absolute gem when it hit Microsoft’s terrific Game Pass service back in 2019.

I’ve often wondered if games that come to Xbox One’s Game Pass service get slept on unfairly, and Blue Manchu’s rogue-like first-person shooter definitely fits this mould.

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The PS4 edition is also being released at the same time as the Switch edition.

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Void Bastards was simultaneously released on Xbox One and PC on and scored 8.5/10 on Xbox One.

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