Description

The world ends in five hours.

Bastion is humanity’s last city, and the swarm is already at the wall. Every cooldown, every defense, every warm body left is being thrown into the grinder to buy a few more minutes.

Maximilian, the high commander, has planned for this.Gustav, the captain, is still pretending it’s not over.

Neither of them understands what’s really watching from the storm.

Tactical warfare, system interfaces, buffs, stats, and cooldown management. No heroes, no chosen one, no escape.

Just the final five hours of a losing war, before The Fall extinguishes the last embers of humanity.

One chapter, one hour.

Welcome, Witness, to the fall of Bastion.

What readers say about 5 Hours of Bastion

“Read through the first 3 chapters and I love it! :D Slower read, but very warhammer 40k meets X-com vibes. Chapter 2 is a bit dense, but the action is amazing. Military elements are well done (loved the hex grid implementation in chapter 1), I really loved…”

Iris_freyaRoyal Road5.0 / 5

“All other stories on RR are so long, I forgot that shorter stories could be written as well. This one is well done from the chapters that exist so far. I'm especially astonished that the world seems flashed out and is easy to understand, even though the sto…”

JoBerRoyal Road5.0 / 5

Community Reviews(2)

Iris_freyaRoyal Road

★★★★★ 5.0

Read through the first 3 chapters and I love it! :D
Slower read, but very warhammer 40k meets X-com vibes. Chapter 2 is a bit dense, but the action is amazing. Military elements are well done (loved the hex grid implementation in chapter 1), I really loved the horror vibes, but the lore could use a bit more explanation in the next 2 chapters. Who's the Witness? What is The Fall really?
The world feels lived in, but I wish the character revealed just a bit more information about it (not exposition dumps, just lore). LOVED the scenes with the Argonauts, they carried chapter 2 for me!
Keep up the good work!

JoBerRoyal Road

★★★★★ 5.0

All other stories on RR are so long, I forgot that shorter stories could be written as well.
This one is well done from the chapters that exist so far.
I'm especially astonished that the world seems flashed out and is easy to understand, even though the story is short.