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Bastard Bonds is a mature, fast-paced tactical RPG with high-end pixel art and in-depth character customization.

Bastard Bonds is a lgbtq+ game developed and published by Bigfingers.
Released on June 15th 2016 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 843 reviews of which 751 were positive and 92 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 3.59€ on Steam with a 60% discount.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7, 8 or 10
  • Processor: 2Ghz or faster processor
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB VRam
  • Storage: 700 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: 1280 x 720 screen resolution or larger, keyboard and mouse

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March 2025
Gets sentenced to exile on an island for buggery, island is full of naked men. I see no issue.
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Feb. 2025
Bastard Bonds is a vast world with a huge number of characters, and I wish I could interact with them much more, as it feels quite limited, and the only existing romance is with Nazar. Building relationships with the other characters takes too long, in my opinion. It should be shorter. The quality of the game is surprising. The pixel art is fantastic, the scenarios are incredibly detailed, everything is in its place, and it’s visually pleasing. You can tell there’s a lot of work and love put into this, and that’s admirable. Beautiful artwork, good dungeons, stunning interiors for the houses, appealing characters, and pleasant designs. Everything is great, and it makes me want to be able to design houses using the game’s engine. Honestly, it has inspired me to create pixel art with designs like these—it’s really enjoyable. The gameplay is quite simple: turn-based combat with short and long-range attacks. Abilities like spells, protection, and healing are all quite powerful but very confusing when you’re just starting the game. Fortunately, there’s a place where they teach you all of them, and it’s almost at the beginning of the game. Personally, I read them but didn’t understand much, and the game doesn’t encourage you to learn or use them at all. It fails quite a bit at making you feel like these abilities are necessary, either because of the rarity of being able to use those different types of magic (since they’re based on magical items with a specific type of magic) or because enemies weak or strong against a certain type of magic aren’t very common. It’s always better to face enemies head-on. Honestly, I mainly had a mage to complete the Weave challenges, and even those are pretty rare. I don’t remember seeing more than 10 in the entire game. The game falls short in many aspects of combat, but at least it's simple. Otherwise, the game is pretty straightforward. It gets difficult halfway through, but once your characters reach the max level, battles become trivial. Personally, I played as an Orc Rogue, and with that stealth build, you can attack enemies without them noticing, saving a MASSIVE amount of time. Instead of having to do turn-based battles and move each character you have, you just kill enemies quickly with unlimited turns. You don’t even have to try hard, and the surrounding enemies can’t see you either. It’s absurd, but honestly, I’m not complaining because there came a point where I just wanted to finish the story and get all the achievements. The game stops being a challenge once all your characters are level 100. The enemies don’t even deal enough damage, and the characters’ abilities are too powerful to lose. The game is poorly balanced in a good way, as you’re invincible, and the only way to lose is by making very silly mistakes. Only the final fight was a challenge. That’s where you finally feel the level you’re at, but honestly, it’s more annoying than challenging because of a very frustrating game mechanic: enemies can disarm you of your protective or attack items. The PUZZLES to beat to game are tremendous. It's really hard to get to the end of the game, the way you'll feel a big dissconection about everything that's going on makes them really hard. It feels like the author just cared about the narrative that he forgot how to implement then correctly in the game. For example, once you get a cinematic, you have to remember everything that was said and you can't repeat the info again cause it's one time only. If you, for example, play a week or month later after you've given an info important to complete the game, you're done. There's no way to discover what you have to do later, where to go, what to seek for. There's nothing. No clues, no table where you can read hints, no missions to get the info back, everything plain text that there's no way you can get back. I used a guide to complete the game, because I waited a month before playing the game, and I forgot every location, every mission and every info that was necessary to complete the game. The map is too big to remember everything useful to finish the same, it doesn't feel right and friendly considering the big amount of places, a lot of them don't even hint that is necesarry to X puzzle. You just have to guess or read a guide. Finally the game is decent, mediocre in several aspects, but at least it's not annoying or bad. It’s quite nice to have a homoerotic game with attractive male characters for other men, and not have to put up with 90% half-naked women and the other 10% being men who barely show anything appealing. I hope there were more games like this. I think I only picked it for that reason, the character creator is pretty good. I would enjoy playing another game like this.
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Jan. 2025
It took me a long while to get to writing a review, because all of my thoughts were quite pragmatic: music, gameplay, pacing, bugs, mechanics... while the game itself is about naked men with flopping schlongs. And here is a small story about that: I wanted to get myself a few games. I was in the mood for isometric mature ones, akin to Tyranny, for example, or older BG. Not a whimsical fantasy story about Disney princess saving the unicorn world, but something gritty, bloody, and real. Among many, this one popped in, and being a sucker for pixel art too, I got it without looking into content warnings: that it is largely gay, quite sexual, and provocative; and I'm quite a frigid straight dude, as far away from its target audience as it gets. However, that did not in any way take away from the enjoyment. It is fast-paced, simple and kind of dynamic, very old-school. Enough activities and mechanics to keep you occupied, but not complex enough to overwhelm you. The world is huge for a one-man team, I applaud the creator. Music is very fitting, albeit it mostly free (I think I've heard most of the tracks before) and the style is lovely. I did enjoy the main story very much, as well as numerous side quests and follower activities, and I cannot stress enough how well the characters are written. I believed they were real. They have personalities, and stories - not just a cardboard cutouts to check the token [insert a minority] box we so often see in these "triple-a" games, - this was so extremely pleasant to read and experience. I got pulled back into nostalgic old days of BG1 and 2, Arcanum, Fallout, all those beautiful overly developed worlds that feel real. While it felt kind of silly travelling alongside with a demon whose dісk was as big as my PC, I really have nothing bad to say about this game, however picky I am. I wish all the best to the dev, and hope they will make many other great games like this one, maybe even assemble a team to do great things together. If you ever need a bit of help from ye olden days game designer, I'd be happy to help, you are amazing.
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Jan. 2025
I Have played 30 hours of this actually really enjoyable dungeon crawler because of the hunky men. I just looked at the wiki and There is no gay sex :( Great game though, mount and blade meets pokemon mystery dungeon 9/10 could use some gay sex in it.
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Sept. 2024
Just got both endings, almost all character quests and interactions and damn... this was an amazing ride. I will look back at it with nostalgia for sure, amazing experience. This entire story could be an amazing comic/manga honestly, the moments of character interactions and events felt so special, although i do wish i did not have to follow a guide to not miss out on all these scenes. Anyway, I love this game, easily one of my faves . Wish it was more popular or updated really, I crave for more of this game and especially the characters.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Bastard Bonds is currently priced at 3.59€ on Steam.

Bastard Bonds is currently available at a 60% discount. You can purchase it for 3.59€ on Steam.

Bastard Bonds received 751 positive votes out of a total of 843 achieving a rating of 8.39.
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Bastard Bonds was developed and published by Bigfingers.

Bastard Bonds is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Bastard Bonds is not playable on MacOS.

Bastard Bonds is not playable on Linux.

Bastard Bonds is a single-player game.

Bastard Bonds does not currently offer any DLC.

Bastard Bonds does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Bastard Bonds does not support Steam Remote Play.

Bastard Bonds is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Bastard Bonds
8.4
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Online players
10
Developer
Bigfingers
Publisher
Bigfingers
Release 15 Jun 2016
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