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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Standard Edition

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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Standard Edition
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Hidden in the shadows, an evil has waited patiently. Until now. Who will face the darkness if not you? A heroic adventure featuring 50+ hours of gameplay, 350 speaking parts, a Legacy Mode for returning fans, and over 100 pieces of incredible music! The Director’s Cut brings more character cust...
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3.6/5

( 49 Reviews )

3.6

49 Reviews

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2019, inXile Entertainment, ...
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Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (64 bit), Intel Core i5-2500K (4 * 3300) or equivalent, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce...
Description


Hidden in the shadows, an evil has waited patiently. Until now. Who will face the darkness if not you? A heroic adventure featuring 50+ hours of gameplay, 350 speaking parts, a Legacy Mode for returning fans, and over 100 pieces of incredible music!

The Director’s Cut brings more character customization options, new items, new enemies, revised UI, and a free expansion dungeon.
 

Customize How You Play

Define the way you play, using sliders on numerous options such as saving (including “save anywhere”), the mini-map, waypoint markers and many more. Whether you seek a hardcore challenge, a lighter experience, or something in-between, the choice is yours.
 

Create the Hero You Want To Be

Play as Bard, Fighter, Practitioner, and Rogue, each featuring 60-70 skills and collectively unlocking 21 unique classes. Build an array of characters to make every playthrough a unique experience.

Craft your Party, Your Way

Start your party with a single character, recruiting or creating new heroes to bolster your ranks. Build a party that suits your play style!
An Adventure Around Every Corner
Explore towns full of quest givers, fight your way through dark and deadly dungeons, and navigate beautiful rolling hills, dense forests, and icy wastes.

Outsmart Evil

Battle your enemies in dynamic, intuitive turn-based tactical combat,that rewards clever thinking. Use superior strategies, thoughtful positioning, and deadly combos to bring down your foes!

Unlock the Secrets of the Past

Unravel challenging mysteries. If your enemies don’t get you, the devious riddles and dangerous traps just might.

The Blade’s Tale

The sense of discovery and mystery doesn’t stop with the environment. Gain ancient Elven weapons containing secrets which you’ll need to uncover by carefully examining them.

New Song of Exploration “Strugglers’ Lament”

Whether you just want to explore and fight or if you get stuck, simply play this song to skip mandatory puzzles.

 
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Contents
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Deluxe Edition
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Standard Edition
Digital Code Wheel
Digital Guidebook
Manual
PDF POSTCARD FOR 4x item
HI-Res Map
HI-Res Wallpapers
Digital Novellas
Digital Art Book
Digital Songbook
Digital Soundtrack
Digital Code Wheel
PDF POSTCARD FOR 1x item
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Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.13+)
Release date:
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Posted on: March 21, 2022

ulterior

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Games: 766 Reviews: 7

A Puzzling Game

The music is otherworldly, the game looks amazing, at the time I played there were no major bugs encountered, the puzzles are interesting, combat is entertaining and basically another puzzle. There are too many puzzles.


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Posted on: January 19, 2023

Mariusz.J

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Games: 286 Reviews: 38

Great game, stop with the block puzzles!

Alrighty, I spent over 40 hours on this game. They've done a great job with the atmosphere, music, battles are engaging and satisfying. Graphics aren't anything to be amazed by but it gets the job done and locales are pretty to look at. The game on default difficulty is just enough challenge to make you experiment with your skills and party make up - that is actually really good! The bad parts of this game are... block puzzles.. too many god damn block puzzles. I don't mind puzzles, I spent quite a bit of time on them in Bard's Tale IV and the problem is how many of them there are, and the variety is lacking. After like 30th hour I was praying to God not to encounter another stone block puzzle! Unfortunately, God didn't care and I had 3-4 more stone block puzzles coming up. It's overdoing it. Pros: - it's just a great fun game for old school cRPG lovers and newcomers to this ancient genre. Cons: - If I see another stone block puzzle I swear... please no more stone block puzzles, I almost quit the game because of how tedious it had become. It's worth a buy, but be weary block puzzles ahead. If there's a 5th installment, and I hope there is! Please, tone down stone block puzzles...


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Posted on: July 16, 2020

pjdodd

Games: 107 Reviews: 64

I've waited 30 years for this game.

I liked this game a lot. It contained some improvements that felt right for it and didn't needlessly shit on it's heritage and copy from just to feel modern for modern's sake. I loved the tactical combat elements, enemy skills and types, as well as the skill trees that helped to shape the party. The story was well enough and once out of the starter town it got a lot better. If I had two complaints about the beginning they would be that there are not enough missions to do early on and there is far too much walking about looking for people/things. Puzzles and quests are what you would expect (I loved the fairy ones) and there is a lot of them. The shopkeepers almost struggled to keep up supplies which can be a pain if you hadn't touched the stones and kept a note of who had money/things. Spoken dialogue throughout - big tick from me. Each new environment had it's lethal threats (if you were dumb and not strong enough) and nothing felt either a cakewalk or a face-pummeling. Final level felt epic and I was gutted that it ended. The only technical issue I had was crashing in the elves forest bit and I could never work out why and just saved often and took it as a hint that I should probably feed the cat.


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Posted on: March 10, 2023

Liquid54Game

Verified owner

Games: 79 Reviews: 5

Surprisingly good RPG

I am still playing the game, 58 hours into it, and I am really enjoying the game. I love the combat. It is turn based with a grid. You will find that different skills have synergy, and when you combine them you can maximize your use of opportunities during combat (number of actions you can take). Its not just about what skill is better, its what skill will work well with the skills your other party members have. I also love the puzzles. There are some standard ones that require you to do certain things in a certain order, but others are much more involved and more fun. You have lots of flexibility in your party since you can swap different members in and out of the active party, and also have the ability to reset skills which is very nice. Great game!!! I highly recommend it.


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