Bastion
Worth it · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.42/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 38,241
- Critics
- 86 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.2h
- To 100%
- 20.6h 3.3x the story
- Finish
- 15% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 24
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 December 2013
- Sale every
- 55d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 16 now
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 78 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $10.56, a level the record has reached 78 times.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 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).
More about Bastion
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 puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 2,614 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I just got to this game, after going through Hades 1&2. Part of me wants to call this 'Hades' lesser cousin', but it's actually the grandpa. It comes from the era, when people were making games rather than gaming services. It won't overwhelm you with hundreds of hours to beat (took me ~7hrs), but completionists may stay for more. Combat feels a bit clunky and slow at first, compared to the more recent action games...
2 more reviews
Bastion did not age particulary well in the gameplay, the enemies are very simple and the weapons don't offer that much depth, despite the high number of options.With that being said, if you're curious to see how super giant got their start, it's a great title to see how great their storytelling was with this title, music is another standout, as expected from this studio
This game is way cuter than any girlfriend you could find. Idk..its a pure vibe, music, gameplay, story...the voice acting...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Bastion scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/107100/bastionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.