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The Bard's Tale

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App ID 41900
App Type Game
Store Name The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
Developer
Publisher inXile Entertainment
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Last Changenumber 28440642
Last Record Update 12 April 2025 – 02:55:32 UTC ()
Release Date 11 December 2009 – 19:28:00 UTC ()
😏 72.27%
1k reviews
3
In-Game

You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!

Additional Information

Developer inXile Entertainment
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Publisher inXile Entertainment
Store Release Date 17 June 2005 – 07:00:00 UTC ()
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Primary Genre Action (1)
Store Genres Action (1), Adventure (25), RPG (3)
Steam Release Date 11 December 2009 – 19:28:00 UTC ()
Original Release Date 17 June 2005 – 07:00:00 UTC () (1118991600)
Store Asset Modification Time 19 July 2023 – 15:52:45 UTC () (1689781965)
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First seen on SteamDB 20 March 2013 – 07:42:48 UTC (), in changelist #196282

Supported Languages

7 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes

Tags

🎲 RPG 🗺️ Adventure 🤡 Comedy 💥 Action 🎭 Fantasy 😃 Funny 💥 Action RPG 🥸 Parody 👤 Singleplayer 🕒 Classic 🛡️ Hack and Slash 🌆 Isometric 🏰 Medieval

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Family Sharing

Hardware Categories

Partial Controller Support

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Steam charts

  • 3 players right now
  • 6 24-hour peak
  • 322 all-time peak 26 October 2017
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Store data

  • 4,272 followers
  • 1,024 positive reviews
  • 339 negative reviews
  • 75.13% positive reviews

Twitch stats

  • 0 viewers right now
  • 133 24-hour peak
  • 1,568 all-time peak
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User reviews history

  • 😏 Mostly Positive
  • 72.27% SteamDB Rating
  • 1,024 75.1% positive reviews
  • 339 24.9% negative reviews

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Markers

Date Label 30-day Peak
11 December 2009 Steam Release -
15 October 2013 ⇄ Humble Bundle: Humble Bundle: PC and Android 7 -
17 December 2013 ⇄ Humble Bundle: Humble Bundle: PC and Android 8 -
31 October 2017 ⇄ Humble Bundle: Humble Jumbo Bundle 10 -

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Steam player counter indicates there are currently 3 players live playing The Bard's Tale on Steam.

The Bard's Tale had an all-time peak of 322 concurrent players on 26 October 2017.

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