The Tale of Bistun
The Tale of Bistun follows an amnesiac stone-carver on his journey up the slopes of the Mount Bistun. He’ll have to battle legions of monstrous foes using fast-paced, melee combat and powerful magical…
The Tale of Bistun is an adventure developed by Black Cube Games, released 13 July 2022 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $4.01 at GameBillet.
What The Tale of Bistun is
The Tale of Bistun is an adventure game developed by Black Cube Games and released in 2022. It was published by IMGN.PRO. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On the craggy slopes of Mount Bistun, a stone carver awakens with no memory of who he is nor how he came to be there. He soon discovers that a blight is squeezing the life out of nature, tainting the local wildlife and turning it hostile. Encouraged by a strange, pleading whisper, the man journeys between the real world and the mysterious place of forgotten memories, known as the Revelations Realm, in search of answers. But a colossal ancient evil is watching, waiting, and is not best pleased that its plans are being disrupted . . . All the while, an omniscient narrator recounts the man’s every step and details his innermost thoughts. But who is he? And how does he know so much about the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, drama and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Tale of Bistun holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.01 at GameBillet, 78% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Tale of Bistun launched on 13 July 2022, within three weeks of Stray, As Dusk Falls, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Stray, As Dusk Falls, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Tale of Bistun yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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