Bastion

very much worh it. Lovely and interesting story with great soundtrack and gameplay

Игра которую я искал семь лет, нашел, заного зацепила что аж отдельно купил и игру и саундтрек, единственный саунд который стоит своих денег я считаю

amazing game, I honestly enjoyed it more than Hades on the Vibes alone <3

fun gameplay, even if it feels a bit clunkier than more modern games, it is a masterpiece of vibes

Might be my favorite of the studio thus far? Love it, highly reccomend :) (still need to finish transistor)

First time playing it in 2025 and must say, still a great game!
Narrator and music was the best.

A solid little game, Bastion was Supergiant's first ever title back in 2011. Bastion is built in much the same vein as the other Supergiant games you've played, such as Hades or Transistor. Bastion is purely an Action game, however, a top-down game with short, snappy levels and a central hub area.

You build structures that allow you to upgrade your gear, choosing what to upgrade after each level. The Distillery gives you passive bonuses, one bonus for each level. The Forge lets you upgrade your weapons, etc. You shoot stuff in levels and collect currency to upgrade things. That's all to it, mostly, and that's fine.

I try to avoid spoilers in reviews, so I can't talk about the story much but I really love the general vibes of it. It's hard to put into words but it almost feels melancholy in a way that touches me in a way that I can appreciate.The narrator here does a phenomenal job. He's the only voice you'll really hear speak through a majority of the game, and he knocks it out of the park.

There's a plethora of weapons in this game, and while that's cool, I couldn't help feeling a little bogged down by them as I neared the end. It felt like almost every single level towards the end was introducing a new weapon, and a majority of them don't let you swap them out either, so you're stuck with it for the rest of the level. The other problem with this is that since these weapons are thrown at you so late in the game in back to back to back levels, you don't really get the time to properly use them.

Hence, the pacing of the game feels a little wonky. The game says its 6 hours on Howlongtobeat, but I beat it in just 5 on the standard difficulty. No real deaths, but I did "Carry On" a few times. You get a chance to revive yourself when you die in Bastion, but if you die again (without the passive that gives you an extra chance, for a total of 3 lives), you're done and have to restart the level. I never had to restart. Bastion isn't that hard, and you'll be surprised at how much you can skip by just running past enemies at times, which is honestly a good idea with how much of a bullet hell the game becomes.

I grew a little tired of Bastion's level design by the time I got about 60% through the game. A lot of these narrow passageways where you have to be careful of falling and taking damage combined with enemies that spam bullets at you were fairly tiring. While it's fun for a while, I'm glad that Bastion doesn't overstay its welcome too long, because I don't think I would've enjoyed more than 5 hours of this.

You can see the precursor to mechanics in later Supergiant games in Bastion as well, which I find really interesting and cool. You'll unlock modifiers to make your runs and gameplay much more difficult if you so desire. However, I never really saw the true point of doing so unless you want the challenge. I love that it's there though, and it's so cool to see a lot of Supergiant's ideas appear in a game that came out so long ago. (2011 was 14 years ago, sorry to hit you with that.)

Bastion really has the vibe of the type of game you'd download off of Xbox Live or PSN back in the 360/PS3 days. And I guess it was that at the time, but it's really fascinating to me that it *still* feels that way. It's like a time capsule of downloadable games from that era, almost.

And while I don't think Bastion is perfect or even something that'll blow your mind, it's a nice little game. You can just see the potential Supergiant has as a studio from this initial game alone, and that's really interesting to me. If you're a fan of Hades or Supergiant's other games, I can definitely recommend this to you. In my mind, gamers should go out of their way more often to experience the studio's roots and play their previous work, and understand the way ideas evolve over time.

Unless you're going for achievements or 100% with New Game Plus, I'd recommend it on sale, though. 15 bucks is a little ehhh... but I guess you're getting the full 360/PS3 downloadable game experience by paying that much. Jokes aside, $3 is a steal. Absolutely grab this on sale if you're a fan of Supergiant's work. Otherwise, I'd maybe try Hades or something else first. Bastion, due to the time, still has a little bit of jank and design flaws that hold it back. It also doesn't feel as smooth as maybe you'd want it to be, even on PC - but it's still nonetheless a fun little romp.

Score: 81

Great game!

Pros & cons:

+ Beautiful art style
+ Thrilling story
+ Immersive atmosphere
+ Challenging, yet satisfying, battle system
+ Excellent controller support with fabulous rumble implementation

- At times, the story can be rather convoluted and difficult to follow, especially when the plot is explained during a difficult boss fight
- Some might find it too short (my run, with barely any side quests completed, took me 7 hours)

Overall, a decent title if you like hack'n'slash games with an immersive atmosphere and an intriguing plot.

This game is heart and soul. Supergiant are very special. As a first game from a studio they got it right and have only done better as the years go on. I will say I remember playing this game when I was like 15 and it basically getting me into gaming as an art form and was a 10/10 masterpiece. On reflection, and after about a decade and a half of gaming... DAM IT IS STILL INCREDIBLE!! Maybe not a 10/10 ... but like 8.5? The art style is drop dead gorgeous, the narrator is awesome, and the story has great beats. The combat is great, but they have refined it so much in Hades. The funny thing is you can see Hades in this game. You can see the world / colors of Pyre in this game. You can see the strategy from transistor in this game. What a truly special blue print. I would love a Bastion 2 with Kid, narrator, Zulf, and Zia flying around the world (post evac ending) and trying to fix the world from their sci-fi sky machine. A boy can dream.

The few negatives I have come down to mainly combat and clutter of enemies, and lack of polish when fighting so many different enemies. But this can be dealt with by upgrading weapons and leveling up to get those special upgrades.

If you want to play this in 4k like I did, just add the following to the startup setting in properties for the game on Steam: -windowed -noborder -x 3840 -y 2160 AND DONT FORGET to change your app size from your windows display settings from 300% to 100% so you can see the whole screen lol. Enjoy have fun!

A short and cute 1st playthrough. If you go for achievements or NG+ the lack of depth in the combat starts to make things fall apart.

Neat game. Pretty simple. At first combat is repetitive, but it starts requiring you to use different tools. Recommend purchasing it on discount, I completed it in under 5 hours playing casually.

It shouldn't take 20 minutes of googling just to open the game from the Steam page when every other game just requires you to hit the "Play" button.

Considering it was released in 2011, this is a good game.

Great gameplay mechanics (especially the weapons combinations), great storytelling, lovely visual range, good ratcheting up of difficulty mechanic, and lots of fascinating direction changes in the plot (no spoilers).

Bastion is a must-play. Yes, it does have some flaws embedded in its gameplay, however, they can be considered minute when looking at the bigger picture. It's a very obvious observation but the game's quality is carried by its immaculate presentation.
Full review - https://retrospect-reviews.com/reviews/bastion

If you told me this was made in 2011 I would not believe you, this handles near perfectly
Story, Art, Sound, Gameplay, everything in this game oozes passion, you can definitely tell the people behind this wanted nothing more than to make an immaculate RPG that would hold the test of time, which it has, out of the RPGs ive played over the years, almost none id recommend more than this.

The first of many pretty darn good games by supergiant games. Good gameplay, great music, really good art style/direction. I had a great time, worth every penny. A very introspective sort of game, I still think about it from time to time and reflect on it. Well executed idea.

There is no good reason to play this game in 2025. There are some positives but not enough.
Positives:
- sound track is ok
- it looks pretty interesting
Negatives:
- the gameplay is boring: you walk for a while, trying not to fall off the map, and at the end survive some bullet hell, upgrade your weapons etc. and start over in a different place
- the story is boring especially in the beginning
- the fighting is difficult because of the controls, low player speed and because you have to rely on rolling which makes you fall off the map a lot; also the perspective makes it hard to aim

I'm sure 99% of people don't read reviews. That's why I confess that I love young, beautiful women.

Bastion at it's core is identifiable as a "first game". What a first game provides I believe is a roadmap for what passionate developers want for future creations, and this game alone proved Supergiants right of passage to amazing well-known video games.

For being a relatively short game, the story, gameplay, music, and other qualities synergize greatly. Gameplay's weapon/talent system creates room for what you believe is most effective (or most fun).
Tonic (passive perks), I surprisingly had a lot of fun messing around. While I did default to some tonics mostly, some niche choices interacted with unique weapon/talent choices, and I found room to make use of essentially all of them. Story is brief with intricacies to characters and general "world structure", nonethless, I still found interest in looking into all characters and events mentioned.

Theme/Music I can argue is refreshing and still upholds a unique approach in fleshing out the world with how platforms and landmarks are shown off and introduced, all the while Daniel Korb overture's Supergiants many games to come with audio, music, sound effects, etc.

For replayability, Supergiant's essence of optional difficulties leaves room to decide how much you want to test yourself. You think you can handle onslaughts? Go right ahead. Do you want to run around 1 shot everything? That's fine to!

Game studios must start from somewhere, and Bastion was a passion project that put love not only to the game, but for the players who took their time to try it.

If you are looking for a short Hades-style game where the exoskeleton of amazingly crafted isometric (and supergiant) games come from, Bastion is the biggest reason why we have these iconic games today, and it's nice to see where it all began.

Cool game and fun. Great to see where Supergiant Games started from.
Download Legacy version if the game doesn't boot.

Beautiful, unique, and fun game with a cool narrator and amazing music.

Visually appealing story driven game with a "narrator" voice that provides a just the right amount of humor when you take actions. The game expands your abilities and options as you progress, which seems to build at a good enough speed to learn the items you're getting. Overall, a fun puzzle type game with a unique and fun story to keep you moving forward.

Bastion is a lovely game with novel world building, extraordinary music and a strangely beautiful story. I found myself captivated by the world being built around me as I explored. The narration added to the immersion greatly. It was fun hearing the game trying explain my various nonsense.

I played the game mostly on the normal difficulty and focused primarily on enjoying the story. But for those excited about some challenge in video games, there's quite a bit of that possible as well. By using idols you can introduce a higher difficulty in your game, which also brings with it more rewards.

All in all, I would like to recommend this game to almost anyone.

this game was my childhood for a reason. not sure if it holds up these days compared to others, but it's still a neat game for sure. fun to compare to hades/hades 2, see how the studio's design has evolved

Classic.
That Voice Over is addicting to listen to.

The birth of Supergiant. Very nostalgic and also cool to see how much they improved over the years

Good gameplay, voice-acting, story, music, etc. but I dropped it twice somewhere mid-way through. For me, most of the weapons felt a bit unsatisfying.
Definitely wroth a try tho.

isometric action RPG, made by the studio that would later make Hades. A strange world, solid gameplay and impact during combat and a wonderfully smooth narration.

One of the very first games I've played. A true classic.

I just love this game.
Love the setting, love the atmospheres, the colors of each and every stage and I love the combat system: it's simple but really rewarding.
I've finished this game on other platform as well because I couldn't have enough.
Give it a try, you won't be disappointed.

Great art, visuals, gameplay, story. Supergiant never failed to put out a great game.

A beautiful isometric game with engaging gameplay and amazing music. I can't think of anything negative to say about this game.

Excellent story, gameplay, graphics, music, sound design, excellent excellent excellent.

If you haven't tried this game, pick it up and play through the campaign, hopefully blind.

I Still think about this game every now and then after all these years. If you never gave a shot for this, I highly recommend giving it a go. Action game play and story are mixed in a really cool way, vibes are so unique. Great music, style and everything!

I cannot get into this game. It is playable for me after a few hours, but I just do not like it too much.
I will try sticking to it to see if it will become better.

Nice isometric-beat'em up game, good story, beautiful graphics, neat animations, excellent playability, amazing soundtrack. Bastion is an indie classic, really unique game that holds on a decade later after its release.

Bastion has incredibly fun, dynamic gameplay that totally nails that arcade style they were going for, and the responsive narration is truly delightful. a fairly simple gameplay loop (go out into the world, find a core, bring it back, build the Bastion) tied to a vibrant world and a perfectly-paced narrative that unfolds as you go. as with all of Supergiant's titles, the story writing is absolutely stellar and the reveal of the origins of the Calamity totally took me off guard and had me reeling in the best way. the themes of this 14 year old game still ring true today, which combined with the fun gameplay, make Bastion a timeless experience. and of course, I can't post a review of a Supergiant game without mentioning the music; the placement of one of the songs during a story event towards the end made me weep. if you've never played any of Supergiant's games, Bastion is a perfect first game from the studio; if you've played Hades or the other titles, I definitely recommend Bastion, as its really cool to see the building blocks of their other games within it.

I could write a 100 thousand word essay about how good this game is, but I'm just gonna say this: I bought it everywhere I could, to support supergiant, and even on the PSVita, on the damn PSVita dawg...

Just buy it and play the game.

just a good ol game

One of the most beautiful games I ever played. Epic art and soundtracks too!

Lots of variety and cool level design.

Bastion

You know immediately that this is a great game

The OST for this game is worth the price alone.

A Classic, still goated in 2025

This game is in my top 10 favorite games, it is definitely one of the best games I have ever played! I can talk for a long time and a lot about the storyline, about all the characters in the game, about the magnificent graphics, about the incredible music, about the excellent gameplay, about the good balance, about the leveling system, about the breathtaking challenges...

The game is great, and to understand this, you just have to play it yourself. I highly recommend this cool game to absolutely everyone!
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Эта игра входит в топ 10 моих любимых игр, она определенно одна из лучших игр, что я играл за все время! Можно очень долго и много рассказывать, про сюжетную линию, про всех героев игры, про великолепную графическую картинку, про невероятную музыку, про отличный геймплей, про хороший баланс, про систему прокачки, про дух захватывающие испытания...

Игра великолепна, и чтобы понять это, надо просто самому в нее сыграть. Настоятельно рекомендую абсолютно всем эту классную игру!

Bastion is a beautiful game through and through that goes for an avant-garde presentation while delivering clean, simple, action gameplay made enjoyable by the variety of weapons and upgrades.

The endings are a little light on narrative for me. The pretentious presentation warranted more. Oh well. They are very arcade-like endings for an arcade action-style game, so it's at least congruent in that aspect.

Having not played Transistor or Hades yet, I would say Bastion holds up very well more than a decade later.

Good game even years later.
Aged like fine wine.

Back when story telling and gameplay was peak!

Interestingly, I like Dreams more than the main campaign. For the campaign it feels a little claustrophobic at least for me...

There's a reason why I own everything Supergiant games developed. Because they're really good at telling a story and making it super fun. Highly recommended!