Fit check
Is Wild Bastards worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want first-person combat alongside planning decisions
- Roguelike fans who want to manage a team of 13 distinct outlaws
- Players who enjoy character relationships, resource management, and changing planetary conditions
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a purely strategic game without first-person shooting encounters
- Players who prefer fixed maps and conditions instead of procedural planets with varying parameters
- Players looking for cooperative tower defense rather than tactical campaign play
Our take on Wild Bastards
The store gives prominent space to rapid shootouts, but the game also requires selecting crew members, managing resources, and handling relationships across planets. Its action framing can understate how much of the experience takes place between battles.
What is Wild Bastards?
Wild Bastards combines roguelike strategy with first-person shooting in a tactical campaign.
Players travel between procedurally generated planets, recruit and manage 13 outlaws, gather resources, and choose which characters to deploy based on terrain, enemies, and planetary traits. Each outlaw has distinct weapons, special powers, relationships, and a growth tree. Planetary encounters lead to short shootouts against enemies that use cover, flanking, and special attacks. Resources can heal injured gang members, improve relationships, and support character progression. The story concerns the gang’s attempt to find and resurrect dead members while fleeing toward the Homestead. After the main campaign, Challenge Mode adds sectors with increasing difficulty and mutators that modify the play experience.
How Wild Bastards plays
- 01Thirteen Outlaws
- Each gang member has individual weapons, a special power, personality, relationships, and a growth tree.
- 02Planetary Planning
- Team selection takes each planet’s terrain, enemies, and traits into account.
- 03Tactical Shootouts
- Short first-person battles feature enemies that use cover, flanking, teleportation, and homing poisonous quills.
- 04Gang Relationships
- Players manage the outlaws’ relationships, including tensions between characters who may be feuding.
- 05Procedural Planets
- Galactic sectors and planets vary through parameters including gravity, terrain features, and weather.
- 06Challenge Mode
- Completing the main campaign unlocks challenge sectors with increasing difficulty and mutators.
Wild Bastards compared to similar games
Wild Bastards combines first-person shooting with roguelike strategy, outlaw management, character development, and procedurally generated planets. Anomaly: Warzone Earth also mixes action and strategy, but its description centers on a reversed tower-defense structure involving cities and large defensive turrets.
Wild Bastards: platforms & release
Is Wild Bastards worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want first-person combat alongside planning decisions. Skip it if: players seeking a purely strategic game without first-person shooting encounters.
Where can I download Wild Bastards?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Wild Bastards's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Wild Bastards on?
Windows only.
