Wild Bastards similar games & best alternatives

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Wild Bastards

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch • 2024

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Engaging strategic gameplay
  • Unique character designs and voice acting
  • Addictive progression and replayability
  • Stylized art and sound design
  • Well-balanced tactical combat

Things to keep in mind

  • Some players find combat floaty or imprecise
  • Story ending feels abrupt to some
  • Price considered high by some
  • Limited exploration compared to predecessor
  • Occasional difficulty spikes and balance issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Orcs Must Die! 2

  • Fate/EXTELLA LINK

  • Sanctum 2

  • SUPERVIVE

  • Temtem

  • Awesomenauts

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Wild Bastards but with less leadership over others

  • Alien Hominid HD

  • Snezhinka:Sentinel Girls2

  • Astral Ascent

  • Slap City

  • Indie Pogo

  • Alien Hominid Invasion

Less competitive

Games that feels like Wild Bastards but with less competition against others

  • Battle Suit Aces

  • UNSIGHTED

  • SWAPMEAT

  • LORT

  • Full Metal Furies

  • Citywars Tower Defense

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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Wild Bastards. These titles are not in What to play next.

Wild Bastards: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Status, Competition.

Last update: 21/08/2026