The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut 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: Director's Cut is a rpg, turn-based and dungeon crawler game developed and published by inXile Entertainment.
Released on August 27th 2019 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish and Russian.

It has received 1,215 reviews of which 942 were positive and 273 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K or equivalent
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970
  • Storage: 29 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OS X (10.13)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 3.7Ghz or equivalent
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970
  • Storage: 60 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 18.04 or equivalent
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K or equivalent
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970
  • Storage: 43 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025
40/40/20 Combat / Puzzle / Conversation-n-Questing Outstanding voicework and a truly unique soundtrack that compelled me to, more than once, set down the controller and turn up the stereo. Game is boring and 0ff-putting until you finish first dungeon and get out of the city (maybe 4 hrs)? Once there were min. 3 people in the party, combat really opened up into its truly unique and fun potential. Seriously combat is a blast here, fights are fast and furious with a gamepad. I wouldn't want to kb+m this game. Outstanding environmental design. Polygon count might not set your gpu on fire but d**m those outdoor areas and dungeons are gorgeous. Lovely character animation too - the monster animations at least. Game has good pacing and the story is interesting enough. It benefits from a unique take on classic fantasy (its own Elves and Dwarves, etc) and the game has some interesting lore sprinkled here and there which I bet would be cool to fans of the OG games way back when. Gotta be honest, in the last two areas I was puzzled out so I switched on the option to 'sing' past them. I feel bad about this, as the puzzles in the final area and optional Dwarven ruins were visually stunning. Long game, but I'd replay it. I hope Clockwork Revolution is a success, as inXile is a talented studio with a great catalog of underselling gems.
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Sept. 2024
Fantastic game. Satisfying story. Brutal combat. Fun puzzles. Tons of build options. Extensive amount of content. Well worth the price tag.
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Sept. 2024
This game is not similar to the original three. If you know that and go in with an open mind, you might enjoy this. I do recommend avoiding those red groups at the start, the characters are not joking when they tell you about death.
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June 2024
This is a beautiful game and way better than Grimrocks. I wish the developers would postpone the release, as it's obvious they have not had enough time to fully polish the game - it has bugs, feels unfinished, and lacks some content. But no matter what, I recommend it even in its current state. Wait for a sale and go for it. I'm really hoping and looking forward to the developers making Bard's Tale 5.
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April 2024
"The Bard's Tale IV:Director's Cut" is actually a good game. Especially if you get it on sale. It has tons of puzzles, turned based combat on a grid, and good Gaelic music. I enjoyed most of the puzzles though there are some annoying ones. If you're a completionist then this game can take a long time so beware of that. I clocked 113 hours in game and still had a handle full of side quests undone. The game does manage to give a feeling of old school gaming. For instance only the main quests have quest markers. The side quests you'll have to figure out yourself. Don't be turned off by the bad rep of "The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep" which was the first release version. It was buggy and full of issues. The Director's Cut version is free to owners of the 1st version. The Director's Cut fixes most of the issues.
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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
7.4
942
273
Online players
8
Developer
inXile Entertainment
Publisher
inXile Entertainment
Release 27 Aug 2019
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