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A Bastard's Tale

No Pest Productions · 2015-05-26

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 04, 2016 (PlayStation 4), May 26, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes

1
playing now
80%
positive of 393 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
57/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

A Bastard's Tale is an action 2D video game, published by Swedish studio No Pest Productions for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows. It received generally negative reviews from critics.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 49% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.8k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 393 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2025-06-26) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 12 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.992015-05-262026-08-172015-05-26 — best price $4.492015-10-26 — best price $4.992015-12-22 — best price $1.692016-02-12 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $1.692017-01-02 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $1.692017-11-02 — best price $4.992018-01-29 — best price $1.492018-05-16 — best price $4.992018-10-15 — best price $1.492019-02-05 — best price $1.242019-05-20 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $1.692020-02-03 — best price $4.992020-06-25 — best price $1.492020-11-02 — best price $4.992021-02-01 — best price $1.492021-05-17 — best price $4.992021-09-27 — best price $1.492022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-05-23 — best price $1.492022-08-29 — best price $4.992022-11-22 — best price $1.492023-02-13 — best price $4.992023-06-29 — best price $1.192023-10-02 — best price $4.992024-01-29 — best price $1.392024-04-01 — best price $4.992024-07-29 — best price $1.192024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $1.192025-05-26 — best price $4.992025-09-01 — best price $0.992025-10-20 — best price $4.992026-01-12 — best price $1.242026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-08-17 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1702026-05-30 — 1 pageviews2026-06-02 — 4 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1 pageviews2026-06-08 — 7 pageviews2026-06-11 — 8 pageviews2026-06-14 — 2 pageviews2026-06-17 — 1 pageviews2026-06-20 — 12 pageviews2026-06-23 — 2 pageviews2026-06-26 — 3 pageviews2026-06-29 — 8 pageviews2026-07-02 — 4 pageviews2026-07-05 — 9 pageviews2026-07-08 — 6 pageviews2026-07-11 — 5 pageviews2026-07-14 — 3 pageviews2026-07-17 — 3 pageviews2026-07-20 — 1 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-26 — 1 pageviews2026-07-29 — 1 pageviews2026-08-01 — 1 pageviews2026-08-04 — 1 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-13 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 2 pageviews2026-08-19 — 4 pageviews2026-08-22 — 3 pageviews2026-08-25 — 3 pageviews2026-08-27 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DIndieActionArcadeMedievalAdventureDifficultSwordplayControllerSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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