$14.99Bastion A world that narrates your every step
Fight through hand-painted floating ruins, rebuild what the Calamity destroyed and let the story carry you.
Is Bastion worth it?
Bastion is worth it if…
- you want a story that reacts to how you play, not just cutscenes between fights
- you care about art and music as much as action
- you like games you can finish in a handful of evenings
- you enjoy a challenge you can dial up yourself, idol by idol
- you want to see where Supergiant Games started
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A story told as you play it
The Calamity broke the world to pieces, and nobody will just tell you why. You wake as the Kid, head for the Bastion and piece the story together from what you find along the way. The twist is the narrator: a gravelly voice who reacts to nearly everything you do, from the way you fight to the choices you make, turning a simple errand into a tale told in real time. The world itself joins in, with paths assembling under your feet as you cross each hand-painted stretch of what is left. It is story-driven in the truest sense: you play to hear what happens next, and the ending leaves you with a decision that sticks with you.
Fighting through the fragments
Combat is isometric hack and slash with a twin-stick feel, and it rewards finesse over button mashing. Ten-plus weapons, from hammers to guns, each with their own upgrade paths, so two players can build very different Kits. Around the Bastion you discover structures that shape what you can do, and shrines let you stack idols that make enemies meaner in exchange for better rewards: turn them all on for a real challenge, leave them off for a calm trip. If it all gets heavy, No-Sweat Mode lets anyone enjoy the story, and dying costs you little. Finish the tale and New Game Plus plus Score Attack keep the fight going.
