Bastion
Worth it · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.57.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $2.42/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (shader model 2), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.24. That was December 2013. It has been discounted 77 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $10.57, a level the record has reached 77 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hades ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Transistor ($19.99, scores 72).
The press gave it 86; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 15 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 2,616 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.2 hours; clearing it takes 21, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
84% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
15 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
So cool to go back and see what the indie scene was cooking when "the indie scene" was first becoming a big player. Bastion is an absolutely gorgeous game, from an art, music, and voice acting perspective. The painterly quality really made the isometric view feel very special and storybook-like. The story being told from the perspective of a narrator is also incredibly neat, and having him respond to various small...
People should've been watching Supergiant since this game, not when they dropped Hades.
I have no idea what I just played and completed but what an unique experience! I have never played anything like Bastion before. It's the weirdest game yet it works. I didn't understand anything the narrator was saying because I was too focused on the combat while panically mashing buttons but I guess there was a coherent story somewhere. Highly recommended!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Bastion scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/107100/bastionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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