The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
Skip · RPG · 2009
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 14.3h
- Value
- $1.40/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, GeForce FX5700 or better / ATI Radeon 9600 or better, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
February 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 62 in the 14 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 37 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Overlord™: Raising Hell ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Three Heroes ($3.99, scores 22).
This site sampled 399 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 243 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
14.3 hours to finish it, 29 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
26% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Cite this score
The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/41900/the-bard-s-tale-arpg-remastered-and-resnarkledReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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