The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
Fair · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $34.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 43.7h
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970, 29 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $6.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 44 in the 7 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wizardry 8 ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Torment: Tides of Numenera ($34.99, scores 27).
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 401 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.
The drop-off
47% start to 24% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Sounds like music to my ears. I did not rightly know what awaited me when I started out with this game. Having watched CohhCarnage play this back on release I did not really remember much of anything of the story or the world. I mostly remembered scenes and a bit of the combat. So when I bought the game the title very much put me in the mood of a poppy, light hearted adventure like the bards like to tell it. Colour...
I'm not exactly someone who plays tons of classic dungeon crawlers. This is one of the first ones I'm trying out. That said, I think this game is really cool. First off you can play it with 3d movement instead of the blocky movement normal for dungeon crawlers. Maybe thats good for you or not but you can choose which way to play. The world is really quite stunning, although the graphics are somewhat dated they just...
i love the bard's tale remastered, funny entertaining and worth the coins. this is not! (got it on sale and still feel i was robbed). the game is buggy, the fighting is not intuitive and well it's a chore. i love old school RPG's this is a puzzle game desguised in a labyrith map of boring fights and annoying puzzles. your skills don't matter, your equipment doesn't matter and pretty much anything else doesn't...
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Cite this score
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1091980/the-bard-s-tale-iv-director-s-cutReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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