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The Bards Tale IV: Barrows Deep
Hidden in the shadows, an evil has waited patiently. Until now. Who will face the darkness if not you? A heroic adventure featuring 40+ hours of gameplay, 350 speaking parts, a Legacy Mode for returning fans, and over 100 pieces of incredible music!
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!
Steam User 3
A true Bard’s Tale fan from the CPC 6128+ days, I immediately jumped on this reenvisioning, although the mention of VR features and simplified combat was making me skeptic. It turned out, the weird, card game combat layout worked like a charm and even if you could not face 396 berserkers in the limited 4X4 combat grid, encounters were fun! After a few hours, it was apparent that at its core, BTIV was a love letter to veteran gamers, for better or worse. And that’s because the charm and personality of old dungeon crawlers was there, but some nuisances tied to that period were also apparent. Exploration and travelling back and forth was cumbersome, conversations cheesy and idle NPCs standing like lifeless mannequins felt so weird.
After 34 hours (and nearing the end of the campaign), I experience a weird bug that made my party fall under the world’s architecture, effectively blocking my progress. Quite some time had passed since my last save and my patience was already wearing thin because of other minor bugs, so I left BTIV at that point. Mind you, that was back in release, so tech issues should have been patched by now. Besides, my team had grown so powerful by then that it was steamrolling all combat encounters. I hear there’s a Director’s Cut edition now: if there’s an inexpensive option to upgrade my version to this one, I would certainly revisit and take care of unfinished business…
Steam User 1
I played the original Bard's Tale and all of the followup games when I was a kid, and I absolutely adored these games. I helped Kickstart this game, and awaited it patiently. It did take a while to get into the groove of this game, and I finally did complete the game. However, there were a lot of bugs, misspellings, and lots of mechanics issues -- and I actually didn't get around to playing it until over a year after it came out. So, the support, patches, and updates appear to have been generic and really didn't get to the heart of it.
Overall, the game was good, and I do recommend it, but there were so many little issues that kept popping up again and again and again that it seriously bothered and annoyed me pretty constantly. Crashing, falling through the world, getting stuck over and over and over in places so that my character couldn't move, quest items that were mislabeled, and areas where there were dozens and dozens of puzzles in a row just to complete one simple stupid step that would stop the entire game progression if you couldn't figure it out, or didn't wanna' spend hours trying to figure out some dumb thing.
Now more is coming back to me and I'm getting annoyed again. STILL -- it was a good game.