The shooting combat is good and feels satisfying. The levels change up their objectives so their layouts don't feel too repetitive, but there is repetition as to the mission objectives and some of the level design. For example, in one case you will be fighting off waves of enemies to survive in a time limit, and the next side mission will require you to occupy three independent spaces in any order you choose while fighting off more waves of goons.
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| Voidling Bound is really pretty |
At endgame you can sink a lot more time into the roguelike final dungeon, breed your Voidlings (there are NINE species) to achieve genetic apotheosis (there are SIXTEEN unique variants per species), make gene-spliced mega-monsters to break the game over your knee, unlock all the combat traits (Enhancements) of a particular species, and explore for gold eggs/collectables that you missed in previous levels. And there is one more endgame collecting thing I'm not going to go into detail about.
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| Complete Glick Evolution Tree, one of Nine different species |
This is one of those games I want and will buy additional DLC for. Also, the music is good and matches level themes quite well.
A buddy and I have been playing Voidling Bound independently and here is how we have played the game.
My buddy found a Golden Kwipeck (Think a Battle-Chicken) from a Gold Egg that had a trait that allows him to get new egg drops from any enemy death at a rate of 3%. He spliced that trait into a New Improved Golden Chicken (Kwipeck) with additional traits so that he could farm resources like mutagens necessary to evolve more Voidlings. Also, he made the spliced Golden Chicken inflict Burn on enemies, and then spliced another trait onto it to heal itself anytime an enemy takes burn damage.
These traits were found from different Voidling evolutionary trees and combined with the Splicing machine.
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| A Spliced Kwipeck |
I followed a different route. I spliced together a Kwipeck that was a circle-strafing dodge tank. I combined the traits that allows a Voidling to move at their max speed while shooting, along with features that gave the Kwipeck the ability to spew out Lightning so that I could cut down robots, who are weak to lightning, at speed. Also, I added a Triple Jump effect to my Lightning Kwipeck and a Glick (think Lizard-Dogs) Trait that gave my Lightning Chicken armor when he landed on the ground.
You can also: have a lighting cat that shoot out homing missiles, a necromancer Gizmo-looking guy that has a damaging ring of bones, a crocodile-dog throw no-shit black holes, a turtle-gorilla that sprays down a carpet of fungus to poison enemies, and a hovering metroid-like Voidling send enemies floating into the air to then punish them with gravity. The list goes on.
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| A Spliced Glick |
Now some critiques. I’ve mentioned there is some repetition in mission design in the combat arenas with waves of enemies. Also, the main quest is relatively short (about 15 hours), but it ends on a satisfying note and that unlocks the roguelike endgame dungeon to conquer.
The Voidling management system could use some quality-of-life features though. For example, being able to lock a Voidling to prevent accidently releasing them into the wild would be very useful. Also, you should be able to favorite a Voidling and name each Sanctuary box you have for organizational purposes when you start heavily breeding your pets.
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| A Spliced cryo focused Glick built for survival |
I'm pretty happy with Voidling Bound and I want to see DLC.
Voidling Bound is $25 and is available on Steam.
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