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Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
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What is Bastion about?
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 create landmasses and structures, as well as enable the Kid to travel farther afield via "skyways" that propel him through the air. During his quest, the Kid meets two more survivors: Zulf, an ambassador from the Ura, underground-dwelling people with whom Caelondia was once at war; and Zia, an Ura girl who was raised in Caelondia. Both of them return to the Bastion, but upon reading a journal that the Kid discovers, Zulf intentionally damages parts of the Bastion's central device (the monument) and returns to Ura territory. The Kid learns that the journal belonged to Zia's father, Venn, who had worked for the Caelondians. He had helped Caelondian scientists ("Mancers") build a weapon intended to destroy the Ura completely to prevent another war. Venn rigged the weapon to backfire, so that when he was finally forced to trigger it, the resulting Calamity destroyed most of Caelondia as well. To repair Zulf's damage to the Bastion, the Kid starts collecting Shards, a lesser form of Cores. As he obtains the penultimate shard needed, the Ura attack the Bastion, damaging it and abducting Zia. In the next seven days, The Kid engages in sporadic skirmishes in Ura territory. When he finally blasts through an Ura outpost and meets Zia, she tells him that she had left with the Ura voluntarily to find out their intentions; Rucks had previously told Zia that the Bastion had the ability to somehow fix the Calamity. The Kid travels to the once-underground Ura homeland to retrieve the last shard. There, he discovers Zulf being attacked by his own people: the battle with Kid has devastated the Ura forces, and they blame Zulf for bringing the Kid to their home. The Kid can choose to drop his weapon to help Zulf or leave him. If he leaves Zulf behind, the Kid destroys the remnants of the Ura and escapes through a skyway. If he chooses to carry Zulf, Ura archers initially open fire on them but ultimately cease fire and watch silently as the Kid and Zulf take the skyway back to the Bastion. After the Kid returns and recovers, Rucks gives him another choice: He can have the Bastion rewind time to before the Calamity in the hopes of preventing it, or use it to evacuate the survivors and move on to somewhere safe. Rucks is unsure if there is any way to prevent the Calamity from reoccurring if the time is rewound, as there was no way to test the process. The game ends either way, showing images of the characters (with the inclusion of Zulf if the player chose to rescue him) flying away or of their lives before the Calamity along with the credits. In the New Game+ mode, which is unlocked after beating the game once, it is hinted that restoring the world didn't prevent the Calamity.






Should I stream Bastion on Twitch?
0/100 · Closed off· 1 viewers per streamer on paperProbably not. None of the 1 people watching Bastion are watching in English — every live stream is in another language, so there is nobody here for an English broadcast to reach.
None of the 1 viewers here are watching in English — every live stream is in another language, so there is nobody for an English broadcast to reach.
Only 0 of the 1 viewers here (0%) are watching in English. 0 of the 1 live streams are in English.
Almost nobody here is available to you — either a couple of streams hold the room, or nobody is watching in English, or the category is empty, or you would be buried.
This reads the room as it is right now — how much of the English-speaking audience is reachable and where you would land — not how many followers you would gain. That depends on you.
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How many people stream Bastion?
Right now
1 right now, to 1 viewer between them. 0 of them are streaming in English. Counted live from Twitch and refreshed every 15 minutes.
Is Bastion too saturated on Twitch?
Not crowded, but not open either. Only 1 person is streaming Bastion, every one of them in another language — so the room is quiet because there is nobody here for an English broadcast to reach, not because it is waiting for you.
Who you're up against
Biggest streams of 1 live right now
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Is Bastion any good?
Steam calls it Overwhelmingly Positive across 24,866 reviews, and players score it 86 out of 100 from 767 ratings, critics 90 out of 100.
Steam calls it Overwhelmingly Positive across 25K reviews.
“I just got to this game, after going through Hades 1&2. Part of me wants to call this 'Hades' lesser cousin', but it's actually the grandpa. It comes from the era, when people were making games rather than gaming services. It won't overwhelm you with hundreds…”
Recommended · 7h played · 6 found this helpful · from Steam
“this is really a fun and short game. The narrator in this game feels like he's giving you live commentary throughout the entire game lol, the art style is gorgeous, the gameplay is fun, although a bit simple with the hack and slash combat. But the best thing a…”
Recommended · 6h played · 5 found this helpful · from Steam
“Bastion is a 2011 release that still holds up surprisingly well. It's a top down, isometric action game that is incredibly well crafted and gives the player plenty of freedom to play however they want, with various weapons, upgrades, and playstyles to experime…”
Recommended · 16h played · 2 found this helpful · from Steam
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Details
- Released
- Jul 20, 2011 · 15 years ago
- Time to finish
- About 9.0h
- Playing on Steam
- —
- Price
- $14.99
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Rated
- ESRB E10+
- Biggest stream
- 1 (100% of the category)
- Typical stream
- 1 viewers (median)
- Count accuracy
- Exact — every live stream counted
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