It’s Time We Admit That Hades Isn’t Supergiant’s Best Game About Temperamental Gods

Bastion is celebrating its 15-year anniversary today, July 20, 2026. Below, we reexamine Bastion's relationship with divinity in light of Supergiant's later hit, Hades."The Ura feared the gods," Bastion's narrator says. "We turned them into trinkets, put them on our walls." In this simple bit of flavor text, there is an implication of religious cultures. The Ura: outsiders, but ones with some shared religious tradition. "We:" a society shared with the narrator, which trivialized that tradition.