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A vertical space shooter about a combat pilot who must break through an enemy armada and warn their homeworld. Maneuver through hostile fire, battle commanders and bosses, upgrade your ship, and assemble powerful equipment synergies.
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You return from a distant transport run to find an invasion already underway. Communications are jammed. The inner worlds have not been warned. One ship now stands between the hostile armada and Prima Verd.
The Last Bastion: Beyond the Frontier is a story-driven vertical space shooter built around a campaign of ten increasingly dangerous frontiers. Fight your way inward, restore the communications network, and assemble a ship capable of reaching the source of the enemy command signal.
Hostile ships enter from multiple directions, reposition in flight, launch flanking attacks, form manoeuvring groups, and cover one another. Rammers lock onto your course, minelayers restrict your space, teleporters change position, and repair vessels return damaged targets to the fight.
Every new frontier expands the enemy arsenal and increases the pressure. Difficulty grows through overlapping threats, faster projectiles, denser formations, and more aggressive attack patterns — not health bars alone.
Heavy ships are not enlarged versions of ordinary enemies. They unfold armour sections, detach weapons, construct firing networks, protect vulnerable systems, and transition through multiple phases during combat.
Read each attack through mechanical movement and light signals, find your window to strike, and survive the commander blockades before facing the flagship of each frontier.
Develop your ship across a nine-step mastery track. Core upgrades steadily unlock its full potential, while four pairs of mutually exclusive specialisations let you shape your preferred style: control, explosive damage, penetration, shrapnel, the Chronosphere, or point defence.
Purchase twelve ship modules across three technology tiers, combine them with your skills, and unlock additional synergies. Enemy strength never scales secretly to match your equipment — every upgrade delivers a real, measurable advantage.
The sector map connects the main campaign, trading hubs, and optional operations. Navigate the hazardous approach to Tartassa, restore the Lost Relay, and expose camouflaged hostiles hidden among civilian traffic over Erynia.
Side missions reveal new routes and technology, provide valuable credits, and help prepare your ship for the next stage of the pursuit — without replacing the skill required in the main battles.
ASTRA is the Autonomous System for Tactical Response and Analysis. It warns you of incoming threats, reconstructs intercepted signals, and studies technology recovered from the wreckage of enemy commanders.
Every new archive entry adds another piece to the invasion. The closer you get to Prima Verd, the clearer it becomes: the armada has come for more than a single world, and what you recover may prove more important than conventional weapons.
Ten story frontiers transform a desperate border breakthrough into a full-scale pursuit of the enemy command source. The final route tests everything you have built in a battle against Hyperion, a five-phase flagship.
Commander checkpoints preserve the pace of longer sorties, while full controller support lets you navigate the sector map, shops, mastery tree, minigames, and combat missions without a mouse.
· 10 story-driven combat frontiers with steadily escalating intensity.
· Multi-phase commanders and flagships with individual attacks and transformations.
· 9 mastery steps, 4 pairs of specialisations, and the option to rebuild your chosen branches.
· 12 ship modules across 3 technology tiers, supported by a separate synergy system.
· A sector map with side operations, minigames, shops, and a shipboard archive.
· Transparent balancing with no hidden enemy scaling based on build strength.
· Full keyboard and controller support.
The Last Bastion: Beyond the Frontier costs $5.39 right now. That's 10% off the regular price of $5.99.
Based on Wish9's price records and IsThereAnyDeal history, the lowest price is $5.39.
The current price ($5.39) is at or very close to the lowest price on record. It has gone on sale 1 time in the past year. The next big Steam sale, the Steam Winter Sale, starts in 34 days. This is for reference, based on past price records, and doesn't guarantee future prices.
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