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The Bard's Tale Trilogy

PC, Xbox One · 2018

RPG

Summary — creator take coming soon

The Bard's Tale Trilogy is inXile Entertainment and Krome Studios' remaster of Interplay's original three Bard's Tale dungeon crawlers, starting with The Bard's Tale on Apple IIe in December 1985. The remaster brought all three games to Windows in August 2018 and to Xbox One a year later (with Xbox Play Anywhere support), modernizing the controls and interface while keeping the turn-based, party-based dungeon crawling of the 1980s originals intact.

Expansions & DLC

The Bard's Tale (1985)

The original game, in which a party of adventurers explores the city of Skara Brae and its dungeons to confront the dark wizard Mangar.

The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight (1986)

The sequel, expanding the world beyond Skara Brae and raising the difficulty and scale of its dungeon crawling considerably.

The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate (1988)

The trilogy's conclusion, sending the party across multiple worlds to stop the god Tarjan from rewriting reality itself.