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The Bard's Tale Trilogy

Krome Studios · inXile Entertainment · 2018-08-14

SteamGOGMicrosoft Store

RPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 14, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 14, 2018 (Mac), Aug 13, 2019 (Xbox One)

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.

25
playing now
95%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

25 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 28% of 6,151 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 39k–93k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,552 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.59-76%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.59-76%
Microsoft Store$3.74-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2023-03-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 35 of 58 observed days · $0.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

52202026-08-11 21:00 — 35 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 22 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 25 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 39 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 28 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 26 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 41 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 23 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 27 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 39 players2026-08-18 12:00 — 28 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 26 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 36 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 20 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 27 players2026-08-21 19:00 — 30 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 24 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 35 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 52 players2026-08-24 10:00 — 23 players2026-08-25 02:00 — 35 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 45 players2026-08-26 10:00 — 27 players2026-08-27 02:00 — 33 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 25 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 36 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 47 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 25 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.992018-08-142026-08-302018-08-14 — best price $11.992019-07-09 — best price $14.992019-12-19 — best price $9.742020-02-03 — best price $14.992020-05-07 — best price $7.492020-08-27 — best price $3.742020-12-22 — best price $7.492021-04-08 — best price $5.092021-11-29 — best price $14.992022-02-21 — best price $14.992022-07-07 — best price $14.992022-12-01 — best price $14.992023-02-24 — best price $3.742023-05-09 — best price $2.992023-08-01 — best price $14.992023-11-09 — best price $14.992024-01-03 — best price $14.992024-03-07 — best price $2.992024-04-30 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $2.992024-08-26 — best price $2.992024-10-28 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-02-03 — best price $14.992025-04-24 — best price $2.992025-06-18 — best price $2.992025-09-12 — best price $2.992025-11-05 — best price $14.992026-01-08 — best price $14.992026-03-11 — best price $3.442026-04-29 — best price $14.992026-07-15 — best price $3.742026-08-30 — best price $3.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
59.3%
earned "Roleplaying"
6.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)4,2312%47
Steam (Steam)2,3223%47

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

Player tags

2DRPGCRPGRetroRemakeClassicFantasyOld SchoolTurn-BasedFirst-Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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