The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut tries to puzzle it out again on August 27th

The Bard's Tale Trilogy

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.

Whatever your feelings on The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrow’s Deep (and opinions were all over the place), you can’t deny that InXile’s puzzle-heavy RPG could have used a couple more months in the oven. Probably for the best, then, that they’re relaunching it next month. Due on August 27th (and as a free upgrade to anyone with the original release), the Director’s Cut was once known as the v2.0 update, an overhaul that they’ve been teasing for a while, but seems to have grown beyond their original plans. Below, a trailer showing off the more polished (but still offbeat) puzzle RPG.

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