Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “Bounty Star”. Bounty Star is an over-the-shoulder 3D action game that marries mech combat and customization with farming and base building. The player takes on the role of a broken but powerful ex-soldier named Clem, a war veteran, talented fighter and expert mech pilot.
Bounty Star attempts something genuinely audacious by welding mech combat customization to farming and base building within a post-post-apocalyptic American Southwest setting that feels like Firefly crashed into Stardew Valley. Players pilot ex-soldier Clem and her Desert Raptor MKII through the Red Expanse, a dusty frontier where the remnants of government outsource justice to bounty hunters willing to pursue criminals into the region’s most dangerous corners. The mech customization offers meaningful variety – steam-powered hydraulic siege weapons, explosive firearms, heavy melee options, riot shields, and dashing boosters let you build for your preferred combat style. Between bounties, Clem’s run-down garage homestead demands attention through water and power supply lines, crop cultivation, ammunition production, and animal husbandry – domestic rhythms that contrast sharply with the violence of her profession. Annapurna Interactive’s publishing pedigree shows in the mature treatment of Clem’s mental health struggles, guilt, and attempts at redemption through legitimate work. The mixed reviews suggest the ambitious genre blend doesn’t fully coalesce for everyone, but players who connect with its unique combination of mech action and homestead management find something no other game quite offers.
Developer: DINOGOD
Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mechs, Third Person, Hack and Slash, Indie
Release Date: 23 Oct, 2025
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
Link: Steam
Review copy was bought.
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