A Bastard's Tale

A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes

A Bastard's Tale is a indie, difficult and action game developed and published by No Pest Productions.
Released on May 26th 2015 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 360 reviews of which 293 were positive and 67 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified A Bastard's Tale into these genres:

Indie Difficult Action Adventure Swordplay Pixel Graphics Arcade Action-Adventure Controller Hack and Slash Medieval Singleplayer 2D

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows ME and 2000 and later
Processor: CPU with SSE2 support, including Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, Core or Atom, AMD Athlon 64 or later.
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB RAM
Storage: 68 MB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

funny little game

Dec. 2024

Very hard game It has a fun and complex combat system The NPC's look very nice Very nice music Nice artstyle 10/10

Dec. 2024

Great music, sound effects, art style, and gameplay.

May 2024

This game does some things I love and some things I absolutely hate. Though I understand that this is a retro inspired game that is almost a decade old itself and had a small development it definitely has some flaws. Firstly the pixelart is pretty good, especially the "cut scenes" or still images! One problem I have is that some of the enemy sprites have clear readability issues, which for a game like this is frustrating and also can look out of place and not cohesive visually to one another -some sprites look very good, some not as much, though all in all its clear a lot of effort went into making them. Now the mechanics, again, have a really cool catch with the 3-directional attacks and parry. I did play this on a keyboard but regardless, I feel like the system is under utilised and under cooked. That's a big problem with this game in general - and that is that it feels like it needed a lot more polish, as the idea itself is very solid and cool, but it ends up with some really cool bits and fights and quite a few tedious, clunky, bordering on obnoxious fights. I think I ripped enough into an obscure, near decade old, indie game but it's a shame because it had a lot of potential that I feel wasn't exactly achieved. I'd still recommend it since it has net features and pretty art; plus, I think for any game devs that want to make games in this style it has a lot of good examples on what to do that works and also what doesn't really work.

March 2024

Get the demo. If you like it and you can buy the full game on sale get it. Why on sale? It is a nice game but to be fair it feels like a realy good browser game and it is very short. I finished NG+ in 3 h.

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4.99€

7.6

293

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Developer

No Pest Productions

Publisher

No Pest Productions

Release 26 May 2015

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