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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 31489141
Last Record Update 5 October 2025 – 10:16:35 UTC ()
Release Date 11 December 2009 – 19:28:00 UTC ()
😏 72.20%
1k reviews
2
In-Game
🎲 RPG 🗺️ Adventure 🤡 Comedy 💥 Action 🎭 Fantasy

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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timestamp19 July 2023 – 15:53:05 UTC

Trailer 589109 ↴

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User File System

Key Value
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Save File Locations

Based on the configuration above, this is where we think the save files are located.

Read more about cloud saves in Steamworks documentation.

Platform Path Pattern
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