Publisher Maximum Entertainment
Format PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series
Origin Release Australia
Origin Release 2024
Don’t let the Bastards trip you up. Blue Manchu’s latest game might be another firstperson shooter-strategy hybrid with a smattering of Roguelike elements and sharp-edged cartoon visuals, but it’s far from a simple cowboys-and-aliens reskin of Void Bastards. Not that we’d baulk at such an idea. As creative director Ben Lee tells it, though, that’s just not in the studio’s nature.
“Historically, our first game was Card Hunter, our second game was Void Bastards,” he says. “There was almost nothing in common with those, apart from the people working on them.”
For the third game, a similarly huge leap was considered, Lee adds: “A lot of team members had different ideas. banner. (Studio founder Jonathan Chey has form in that regard, of course, with and likewise sharing a suffix.) Still, Lee says, “there wasn’t a lot of interest in a literal sequel. We all had affection for , but it was like, well, what else would we even do there?”
