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The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is a rpg, dungeon crawler and turn-based combat game
developed and published by inXile Entertainment.
Released on September 18th 2018 is available only on Windows
in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish and Russian.
It has received 1,476 reviews of which 992 were positive and 484 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.5 out of 10. 😐
The game is not available on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K (4 * 3300) or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2048 MB) or Radeon HD 7970 (3072 MB)
- Storage: 55 GB available space
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I love this game, its got a fair load of bugs and technical issues (which are mostly getting resolved by the day) and character models and textures may be ugly as sin but that doesnt detract from the rest, even though i'm playing it on low settings. This game has something not a lot of other rpgs i played have, and that is a heart and soul, you can tell the devs really poured it all on to the making of this and it shows in the level design, the puzzles, the music, atmosphere and overall feel of the game. I felt like i should drop a positive review because this game absolutely does not deserve its current mixed reviews, thanks inXile for the adventure.
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This is the first RPG I've played through to the end in...I don't know how long. Perhaps it's the nostalgia factor since I played Bard's Tale 1 and 2 on the Commodore 64 decades ago; but I enjoyed this story, the turn-based combat was fun, and crafting the "A-Team" with a perfect set of skills for epic combat interaction was a blast! Voice acting and music I thought were both great. I usually despise puzzles in games, and this one could have used at least 50% fewer puzzles, but even that didn't spoil it for me. (Though, really, who would put puzzles in every corner of the world???) I only had to cheat (look online) for the answers to a few. It's not really an "open world" game, so I don't think I'll be doing any replays to see what I might have missed. The story is linear and the guardrails are visible clearly. Maybe it wouldn't be worth the full price for anyone who didn't play the old Bard's Tale games; but I don't regret parting with the money.
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Such obvious love and care poured into this. The environments and music cavort together to produce a quirky, unique and totally absorbing hideaway to gawk at and listen to. Loadsa secrets, skills, spells, drunk Scots, tartan and potatoes. Beasties abound and combat is a madcat explosion of skills and effects of real variety. I've laughed, run away, hidden, been stumped, stopped to listen (how often does that happen in a game?), passed out, nearly died, actually died, and made a lot of sandwhiches. With cabbage (really devs?) Released a little early, it has a few bugs and missing features. Running like the morning after 8 pints and a deep-fried kebab, it staggers but has a head full of great memories and good times. A wee beauty.
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I am 21 hours in.And I must say I absolutely love this games.Yes the game had its issues on release day.(Crashing,Framerate Drops Etc...)However I was able to over look all of those thing and enjoy the game.The game is fully voice acted for one.It tells a wonderful fanastical story.Its paced very well.It boost it self with an aray of very Colorful and animated characters.Each with there own hidden agendas and circumstances.I will write another review in about a week.But this game isn't one to miss.It is a hidden jewel that must not be forgotten.
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I really don't get why all the negativity here. This games has lots of atmosphere and personality with fairly deep RPG mechanics. I'm really enjoying it so far. I've seen bad reviews solely because the game didn't have 21:9 monitor support WTF?! You're going to thumb a game down solely on that?!?! Or because the game crashed - fair enough but I'm guessing that will be fixed soon (hasn't been a problem for me at all - game runs perfectly on my GTX 970 on ultra settings). Go ahead and buy the game and if it won't load - get a refund and try again in couple weeks. The game's a bit different from the old Bard's Tale. I think that's a good thing. I recently played Bard's Tale I, and it's an ok game and brought back memories of when I played it in the 80's (I'm 44) but guess what - the game mechanics are DATED. Whoda thunkit, a 30 year old game with rough game mechanics? There are less attribute stats this time around, but there are many new skills that the old games never had. I like the skills, they really add to strategic depth of combat. So they streamlined some parts of the game while adding new features. IMHO the RPG aspect is deeper than the old Bard's Tale games, even with fewer attributes, because new things have been added in. I saw another review complain you had to start with a pre-scripted character. Yes, you do, for like 5 minutes, then you can make your own character. Whoopty-effin' do. Some people are seriously butthurt over really trivial things here. Pros: Graphics are not absolute cutting-edge, but are still very nice and varied. Love the new skills system. Lots of character classes and races (if you count the 4 human sub-races, otherwise only 3 races: human, elf, dwarf). I like the 1st person free room vs. grid movement. Lots of atmosphere and quirky charm. Combat is more strategic than original Bard's Tale Games. Legitimate gripes: Not many character portraits/skins. Voice acting is cheesy. But it also has charm and character. Soyboy millennial whiner snowflake/cupcake gripes: There's a lot of initial cutscenes that give some background, but you can skip past them all. The initial tutorial section is linear - yeah get it over soyboy's it's a frickin' tutorial. Your initial party only has 2 people, but you add more later. Pillars of Eternity is like this as well. Again, whoopty-effin' doo. This is like Porsche purists complaining any time there are improvements made to Porsche 911s. It's freakin' ridiculous. Give this game a try, I'm enjoying it!
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The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep received 992 positive votes out of a total of 1,476 achieving a rating of 6.53.
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The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep was developed and published by inXile Entertainment.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is not playable on MacOS.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is not playable on Linux.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is a single-player game.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep does not currently offer any DLC.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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