Bastard Bonds
Worth it · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $10.99.
- Length
- 32h 77.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 887 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.39 (60% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Bastard Bonds is a mature, fast-paced tactical RPG with high-end pixel art and in-depth character customization.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB VRam, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
45 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Baldur's Gate 3 ($59.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Notes of Soul ($29.99, scores 32).
More about Bastard Bonds
Of the 346 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 32 hours. Doing everything runs 77, 2.4 times as long.
The drop-off
24% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 01:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I... absolutely in love with this game, the lore, the world building, character design, relationships, and unique combat system, all of it is amazing. Been spending my time to gather all of the achievements just because I want to 100% my favorite game, and the fact you can technically change the character sprite with your custom sprite is really fun, I would REALLY recommend this game to anyone who loves turn based...
2 more reviews
"Hey hey people, Seth Here..." Jokes aside, this game surprised me, the combat is simple yet addicting, exploring feels nice and challenging. I really enjoyed the characters and I would honestly say that this is a solid rpg game.
Simple yet elegant mechanics that create surprisingly tactical combat. My favorite part of my first playthrough was having gay sex with a ghost. On my most recent playtrhough, I noticed that instead of the regular "Recruit" dialogue option when recruiting one of the early-game beefcakes, the option reads "I want you." This game scratches my nostalgic itch for Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and improves on the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bastard Bonds scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/486720/bastard-bondsReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.