Bastion
A hack-and-slash RPG featuring a reactive narrator, various unlockable weapons, weapon upgrades, practice mini-games and optional difficulty modifiers, set in an imaginary world in the aftermath of an…
Bastion is an adventure developed by Supergiant Games, released 20 July 2011 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. The main story takes about 9 hrs to finish.
What Bastion is
Bastion is an adventure game developed by Supergiant Games and released in 2011. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on FMOD.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game takes place in the aftermath of the Calamity, a catastrophic event that suddenly fractured the city of Caelondia as well as the surrounding areas of the game's world into many floating pieces, disrupting its ecology and reducing most of its people to ash. Players take control of the Kid, a silent protagonist who awakens on one of the few remaining pieces of the old world and sets off for the eponymous Bastion, where everyone was supposed to go in troubled times. The only survivor he meets there is an elderly man named Rucks, the game's narrator, who instructs him to collect the Cores that once powered Caelondia. A device in the Bastion can use the power of the crystalline Cores to…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 24 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Bastion holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 767 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 14.9 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.7 GHz Dual Core or Greater, 2 GB of RAM and 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (shader model 2). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Bastion launched on 20 July 2011, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues, From Dust, Star Fox 64 3D and Kirby Mass Attack. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues, From Dust, Star Fox 64 3D, Kirby Mass Attack.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Bastion yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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