The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is a puzzle role-playing game where players build a character, take on quests, and push through story-driven challenges. It stands out for character progression, quest structure, and a strong sense of discovery, especially if you enjoy role-playing experiences with a clear identity.
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut overview
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.
Will this game run on your PC?
Minimum
- System: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970
- Storage: 55 GB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Recommended
- System: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970/AMD 290 equivalent or greater
- Storage: 55 GB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Download, Install, and Play
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- Download The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut (latest). Wait until it is 100% complete, then locate the files.
- Install the game:
- Run or double-click
setup_********.exe. - If a DLC folder is included, run any
.exefiles inside it as well.
- Run or double-click
- After the installation is complete, launch the game and start playing.
- Enjoyed the game? Consider purchasing it from the official store to support the developers.
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I was having fun but the party creator is really lacking for something I’m going to see the entire game, and from what I gathered from the steam forums the devs admitted they made the game ummodable so you can’t replace their ugly models/portraits.
Just a heads up for any aspiring rpg afficianados out there-
This is NOT the bard’s tale rpg engine of the 1980’s
You might want to watch a video of the gameplay before downloading 26 gigabytes of utter garbage.