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The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a complete remaster of the iconic series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality of life gameplay features, this is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a rpg, dungeon crawler and classic game developed by Krome Studios and inXile Entertainment and published by inXile Entertainment.
Released on August 14th 2018 is available on Windows and MacOS in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish and Russian.

It has received 1,423 reviews of which 1,355 were positive and 68 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Bard's Tale Trilogy into these genres:

RPG Dungeon Crawler Classic Grid-Based Movement Fantasy First-Person Old School Remake Singleplayer Party-Based RPG Retro Turn-Based CRPG 2D Turn-Based Combat

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: 64bit OS, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ / Intel Core i5-2500K or higher if using integrated Intel GPU
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
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MacOS
  • OS: OS X (10.14)
  • Processor: 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated Intel HD Graphics 5000
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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Aug. 2025
So happy to be back in my hometown, Skara Brae, after all these years. If you've never played anything like Bard's Tale, Wizardry (1 or 2) or Eye of the Beholder, this is the one you want to play. There's other options but Bard's Tale plays into the fantasy genre better than most games that are out today. It has a certain amount of 1970s fantasy to it, as well, an very little in the way of modern fantasy tropes - and the way the game plays reflects the scope of the adventure. They've also modernised it a fair bit with some little niceties that would have been difficult to do on old hardware/software, like looking around. The interface is also cleaner, and they added some functionality that makes it faster to play. They recreated some of the artwork from the original. It may be a little dated but the game just isn't the same without it - original IBM release was bare compared to the Commodore 64 releases. I know I'm posting a positive review pretty early in terms of play hours, but I'm just excited that there's so much ahead of me. Really wish I could send a letter of thanks to the original creators for inspiring my formative years, but thanks to inXile as well for reviving these games.
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June 2025
I loved this when I was a kid, and I love it now. The quality of life adjustments are really appreciated. I play with a lot of them turned off, but I like that they're there. I'd pay more for a "toggle the old pixel art" option.
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March 2025
OK, it's old-school, but I had a lot of fun playing these back in the '90's, and I'm playing in Legacy mode, so some of the characteristics that other people might find frustrating (the Save Game mechanic, for example) are nostalgic for me. So, it's primitive by 2020's standards, but so am I.
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Feb. 2025
If you like "you kick down a door" dungeon crawls, this might be a game for you. It doesn't have any intricate quests. It is definitely not story-rich. It won't feel like you're "getting to know" any NPC or joining a community. But if you just want to pretend you've hooked up with several other adventurers in a tavern so that you can go off and eventually save your world, then you'll probably enjoy this game. The classes all have their own strengths and weaknesses, and most have some relatively unique ability. Very few are ever essential (there's a place where you simply must have a bard in part 1, and you need a thief for an achievement in part 3, for example), so you can experiment with different party combinations or even go solo. Even in those places were you do need a certain character, if you don't like playing with that class in your party, you can leave him parked in the tavern until you need him. I had fun figuring out which combo of spells or abilities mixed with which bard songs and such in order to best take on this or that mob. I enjoyed collecting the mostly-useful (there are some places where I'd seriously change the loot tables) loot. I ended up rolling in gold I couldn't find anything to spend it on. The blackjack in part 2 was fun and I missed having a casino in part 3. The game got a little grindy in part 3, but I leveled up just about all of my party members (and an extra or two) just messing around and doing a full exploration of the dungeons. My only "this isn't fun anymore" complaint is that a couple of the dungeon floors in one tower of part 2 sometimes cross the line from "difficult" to "tedious" for traps and teleports that hinder you. If you are a map-nut like myself, you want to mark every single square ... but that one left me logging out to do something else just to clear my head. I put this game series thus far (I haven't played part 4, and I'm cheap so I won't get to it anytime soon) as being a weird mix of just above and just below Elder Scrolls Arena/Daggerfall. In fact, it's easy to see how this was probably inspiration for Elder Scrolls: Arena. The final ending of the series at part 3 was . . . underwhelming . . . but I had probably way over-leveled because I'd spend so much time messing around and just spanking mobs to spank mobs. Leave it to me to be dissatisfied with ascending to godhood.... ;) I got over 300 hours of amusement out of it (you can probably actually complete the game series in like 30 hours, but I like to be silly and make/remake different characters and such), and I definitely feel it was money well spent.
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Dec. 2024
This is a great remaster that makes these games more approachable than they've ever been. If you want to play any of the three Bard's Tale games, this is the way to do it. That said, if you're a curious newcomer who doesn't already have a taste for sadistic maze crawling nonsense with minimal story and maximal testing of patience I could never recommend this. I doubt there are going to be that many newcomers to the series, so I'm going to recommend it anyway on the basis that it does the best possible job at what it set out to do. But these games really do embody all the worst parts about the birth of the genre. Bring lots of different types of mages, cast lots of compass, and make sure your bard is constantly singing a song about light in the darkness... and then pull your hair out when you walk over your 10,000th anti-magic, anti-music, anti-trapzap tile placed right on top of a chokepoint for no reason other than to make you lose 5mp and have to faff around in menus for a while longer.
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy received 1,355 positive votes out of a total of 1,423 achieving an impressive rating of 9.01.
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy was developed by Krome Studios and inXile Entertainment and published by inXile Entertainment.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy is not playable on Linux.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a single-player game.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy does not currently offer any DLC.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy does not support Steam Remote Play.

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The Bard's Tale Trilogy
12.49€ Buy Now
Rating
9.0
1,355
68
Game modes
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Online players
28
Developer
Krome Studios, inXile Entertainment
Publisher
inXile Entertainment
Release 14 Aug 2018
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