One of my favorite pieces of video game box art is from Tales of the Unknown, Vol. 1: The Bard’s Tale, the 1985 fantasy role-playing game from Interplay. A bard strums a handheld harp, regaling ...

The Bard’s Tale IV may be financed and absolutely in development, but the Kickstarter campaign still has a few days left. To further raise awareness, developer inXile has released a video ...

The Bard’s Tale IV has great art direction as I said, but the models and so-on, the raw guts of it, ... Mangar’s Tower, is essentially an enormous puzzle box.

After a brief hands-on and chat with the "The Bard's Tale IV" team, it's clear the focus is on reinvigorating, not reinventing, the storied franchise.

The Bard's Tale features some much-needed refinements to the standard dungeon crawler formula. The tone of your conversation will have very noticeable effects on subsequent conversation, as well ...

The Bard's Tale 4 isn't the first dungeon crawler to have above-ground 'dungeons,' of course—2014's Legend of Grimrock 2 starts on a picturesque beach—but ... The character art itself is ...

Structurally, The Bard’s Tale IV plays out pretty much like any other RPG you’ve played before. Set in the Celtic styled fantasy realm of Caith, players and their party of adventurers are free ...

The Bard's Tale has some genuinely good ideas, but much of its execution falls short. The funny stuff isn't as funny as it needs to be, and at its apex it's just kind of amusing.

The Bard's Tale 4 is first-person when you explore but a chess-like grid when you battle. Your gang occupies one eight-square half of the board, and your enemies occupy the other.

I thought The Bard's Tale 4: Barrows Deep was an excellent dungeon crawler when it came out in the fall of 2018, but not everyone was quite so satisfied with the experience. I enthusiastically ...