Bastion Sells 500,000+ Copies, Takes Home 74 Awards
After their recent discount during both the Steam Holiday Sale and Xbox Live Holiday Sale, Super Giant Games announced that Bastion has “sailed past” 500,000 copies sold across the two platforms. Along with posting phenomenal sales figures for a downloadable game, Super Giant listed the awards and accolades that Bastion has gained since it being released.
Among the awards Bastion picked up 12 top 10 awards, 26 Game of the Year awards (including Indie GotY, Downloadable GotY, PC GotY, and XBLA GotY), and 17 Best Sound awards including Best Original Score, Voice acting, and Audio. Super Giant also gained an Indie Developer of the Year award. Hit the jump for the complete list of awards.
- Associated Press – Top 10 Games of the Year
- Entertainment Weekly – Best Videogames of 2011
- TIME – Top 10 Games of 2011
- USA Today – Top 10 Games of 2011
- NPR – Ten Best Video Games of 2011
- CNN – Top 10 Video Games
- Wired – Top 20 Best Games of the Year
- Paste Magazine – Game of the Year
- Boston Herald – Best Game of 2011
- A.V. Club – 10 Best Games of 2011
- ScienceFiction.com – Top 10 Best Sci-Fi Video Games of 2011
- Spike VGAs – Best Downloadable Game, Best Original Score, Best Song
- Inside Gaming Awards – Best Downloadable Game, Best Indie Game, Best Original Score
- IGN.com – Best XBLA Game
- VentureBeat – Best Indie Games of 2011
- Giant Bomb – Best Music, Best Debut Game, Best Downloadable Game, Top 10
- TotalBiscuit – #1 Game of 2011
- UGO – Best Downloadable Game of the Year
- Yahoo – Best Downloadable Game
- Game Informer – Best RPG Innovation (The Narrator)
- Official Xbox Magazine – Best Music
- GameSpot – Song of the Year
- Team Xbox – XBLA Game of the Year
- Quartertothree – Game of the Year
- XBLA Fans – Best Audio, Best Visuals
- Xbox 360 Achievements – Best Arcade Game
- Rock Paper Shotgun – The Games of Christmas
- IndieDB – Worldly Award for Best Gameworld, Players Choice Top 10
- HorribleNight – Best Downloadable Game, Best Soundtrack, Indie Developer of the Year
- IndieGames.com – Top 10 Indie Games of the Year
- The Escapist – 12 Games of Christmas
- Reaction Time – Best Downloadable, Best Voice Acting, Best Soundtrack
- TrendyGamers – Downloadable GOTY
- Gamezebo.com – Best PC Game of 2011
- XBLARatings – XBLA Game of the Year
- Press X or Die – Game of the Year
- Unwinnable.com – Best Surprise Indie Darling
- Ripten – Best Downloadable Game, Biggest Surprise
- Reviews on the Run – Best Downloadable Game
- IndieGameReviewer.com – Best Indie Game of the Year
- gamrFeed – Best XBLA Game
- Media Kick – Readers Choice, Best Downloadable Game
- Kotaku Australia – Readers Choice, Indie Downloadable GOTY
- Level Save – Game of the Year Pick
- Click Online – Top 7 Pleasant Surprises
- Piki Geek – Top 10 Best of the Year
- nJoystic – Best Soundtrack
- Press2Reset – Best Soundtrack, Best Song
- The Sixth Axis – Best Downloadable Game
- MiddleEast Gamers – Best Indie Game
- Kotaku – Pick, Best Game Music of 2011
- GamerCrash – Best Soundtrack
- Gamercast – Top Downloadable Game
- Bishop’s Gaming World – Best Soundtrack, Top 10 Games of the Year
- Tom’s Hardware Turkey – Most Original Game, Best Narrative, Best Original Score
I’m glad to see Bastion do well, but I was surprised at only a 1/2 mil purchases. It’s such a good game, and I even bought the soundtrack.
Well, if you compare it to AAA titles with huge PR budgets, it’s not a lot. But for an indie title it’s quite a lot, and if we compare the amount of PR money thrown at the games I’d say Bastion is more successful than for example Deus Ex or Dead Space 2.