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The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled cover art

The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled

inXile Entertainment · 2009-12-11

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 18, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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!

3
playing now
75%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

The Bard's Tale is an action role-playing game developed and published by inXile Entertainment in 2004. The game was marketed as a humorous spoof of fantasy role-playing video games. It is neither a remake nor a sequel to Interplay Productions' Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's Tale (1985).

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 58k–116k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,452 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at GOG (2014-06-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 36 of 61 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

702026-08-11 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.992015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-06-21 — best price $9.992015-11-25 — best price $2.992016-11-04 — best price $1.992017-06-22 — best price $1.992017-11-30 — best price $4.992018-04-15 — best price $1.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-06-06 — best price $4.492019-11-26 — best price $6.592020-03-16 — best price $6.592020-08-31 — best price $19.992021-01-18 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $4.992021-12-01 — best price $19.992022-02-14 — best price $6.792022-06-15 — best price $6.992022-08-02 — best price $3.992022-12-01 — best price $19.992023-02-14 — best price $19.992023-05-04 — best price $19.992023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-11-16 — best price $3.992024-01-16 — best price $19.992024-03-23 — best price $19.992024-05-21 — best price $19.992024-08-15 — best price $19.992024-11-05 — best price $19.992025-01-16 — best price $4.992025-04-25 — best price $19.992025-06-27 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-12-02 — best price $19.992026-02-02 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-19 — best price $3.992026-07-30 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4681012026-05-29 — 159 pageviews2026-06-01 — 139 pageviews2026-06-04 — 130 pageviews2026-06-07 — 446 pageviews2026-06-10 — 174 pageviews2026-06-13 — 155 pageviews2026-06-16 — 202 pageviews2026-06-19 — 231 pageviews2026-06-22 — 112 pageviews2026-06-25 — 112 pageviews2026-06-28 — 132 pageviews2026-07-01 — 317 pageviews2026-07-04 — 113 pageviews2026-07-07 — 123 pageviews2026-07-10 — 102 pageviews2026-07-13 — 180 pageviews2026-07-16 — 140 pageviews2026-07-19 — 157 pageviews2026-07-22 — 140 pageviews2026-07-25 — 149 pageviews2026-07-28 — 105 pageviews2026-07-31 — 240 pageviews2026-08-03 — 142 pageviews2026-08-06 — 159 pageviews2026-08-09 — 135 pageviews2026-08-12 — 144 pageviews2026-08-15 — 130 pageviews2026-08-18 — 115 pageviews2026-08-21 — 103 pageviews2026-08-24 — 129 pageviews2026-08-25 — 119 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

51
achievements tracked
26%
earned "Thunder Spider Tune"
3.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One, Windows, Switch (Xbox)9,43225%51
Switch (Nintendo)60%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGFunnyActionComedyClassicFantasyParody MedievalAdventureIsometric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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