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A Bastard's Tale

A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes

57 26 May 2016

A Bastard's Tale is an adventure developed by No Pest Productions, released 26 May 2016 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What A Bastard's Tale is

A Bastard's Tale is an adventure game developed by No Pest Productions and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

How it plays

Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 10 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

A Bastard's Tale holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 11 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for CPU with SSE2 support, including Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, Core or Atom, AMD Athlon 64 or later., 1 GB RAM and 256 MB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

A Bastard's Tale launched on 26 May 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch and Doom. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Doom.

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A Bastard's Tale — frequently asked questions

When did A Bastard's Tale come out?
A Bastard's Tale was released on 26 May 2016 for PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for A Bastard's Tale?
At minimum, A Bastard's Tale needs CPU with SSE2 support, including Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, Core or Atom, AMD Athlon 64 or later., 1 GB RAM, 256 MB RAM graphics, 68 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is A Bastard's Tale?
The PC version needs about 0.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("68 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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