The Bard's Tale
June 27, 2024
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★★★★★ Best of 2012 - Games ★★★★★
They said it couldn’t be done… a full-scale massive 3D epic role-playing game on Android! See why it’s the BIGGEST Android game ever made!
NOTE: Additional assets downloaded after install require at least 1.7GB of free space.
RECOMMENDED DEVICE SPECIFICATION: 1GHz or higher CPU; Adreno 205, Tegra 2, SGX 540 or Mali 400 or higher GPU.
“The Bard’s Tale is easily the funniest game I’ve ever played, and I’ve played all the funny games out there.” – IGN
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Through magical song you summon characters to join you in battle, heal your party, and take damage on your behalf. Ready your weapon as you embark on a quest for coin and cleavage!
“Ready your weapon and bladder as you embark on this ridiculously addicting quest and the funniest adventure of the year, The Bard’s Tale” – Game Chronicles
Play The Bard’s Tale today on your favorite compatible Android device*. Prepare to immerse yourself in over 20-30 hours of adventure, featuring:
• 50 enemy types (not counting bosses!)
• A vast world to explore with towns, wild forests, rivers, castles, towers, secret dungeons, snowy mountains, caverns, haunted tombs and more
• A full cast of bizarre NPC’s
• Over a dozen special boss enemies to defeat
• 16 magical characters to discover and then summon at will to aid you
• Over 150 unique items of weaponry, armor, instruments, tokens, artifacts and loot!
• More Song & Dance numbers than any other game, including a zombie dance-off!
• Over 14 hours of outstanding voice-acting from top Hollywood talent, including Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) as the Bard, and the inimitable Tony Jay as the Narrator
But wait! That’s not all! Enjoy these great new additions in the Android version:
New Features:
• Autosave—option to save automatically when you near a save-book in game.
• Time-Savers—optional in-app purchases are available to pump up your Bard and save you time! (Note: All such items are attainable through normal game-play, with time and persistence, just as in the original console release.)
• Includes the original classic The Bard’s Tale trilogy!
+ The Bard's Tale 1: Tales of the Unknown
+ The Bard's Tale 2: The Destiny Knight, and
+ The Bard's Tale 3: Thief of Fate
“This game is satire in its sharpest form” – Cheat Code Central
Play The Bard’s Tale today!
Support:
We hear you, and we are committed to improving The Bard’s Tale for Android. Please send support questions/comments through The Bard’s Tale Support link below. You are also welcome to join the discussion and get the latest news on our Facebook product page “The Bard’s Tale”.
IT IS HUGE!
Please note: Asset installation requires at least 1.7GB of free space on your device. Thank you for your patience with the download time.
Android adaptation by Square One Games.
* Compatible with Android 2.3 and higher. XPeria Play Optimized.
Native Gamepad Support:
o Wii Classic Controller (native or with free WiimoteController App)
o Xbox 360 & Logitech F310/510/710 in X mode.
o PS3 SixAxis and Dualshock (native or with SixAxis Controller App). If using Sixaxis Controller app, use default key mappings set “Enable Gamepad” option to be “ON”.
o NYKO PLAYPAD & PLAYPAD PRO
o MOGA Controller (with MOGA app or ObsidianX IME)
o MOGA PRO (HID and Pivot App)
o GameStop Red Samurai
o Green Throttle (requires GT Arena app)
o NVIDIA Project Shield
SixAxis, WiiController & MOGA IMEs must be disabled to play original Bard’s Tale trilogy.
Supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russia, Korean, Polish
Latest Version
1.7.1
June 27, 2024
inXile entertainment
Role Playing
Android
654,512
$2.99
com.inxile.BardTale
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User Reviews
Vampire Stone
4 years ago
I have had this game for a very long time and love it. However, I recently had a new phone (a Doogee N20). For some reason on this phone the game thinks I have a gamepad attached when I don't have one. In gamepad mode the touch screen doesn't work. Adding a gamepad allows me to play it but this is the only game I've found that doesn't support both gamepad and touchscreen simultaneously.
Visibly Hidden
8 months ago
Hilarious, a great rpg so far. I do wish the joystick was over away from the edge of my phone, and the game froze on me once other than that it's been worth the low price advertised. Edit: the buttons definitely have to be bigger, using whirlwind with flail is buggy and unresponsive.
adam perkins
1 year ago
What a great game. So funny and runs great on my samsung galaxy a52 5g. Iv turned everything to medium on resolution etc as seems to keep in time when in a cut scene,doesn't get ahead of it self. I.e new scene but still talking about the old scene. Playing this with a controller, so I guess it's probably easy to play,but overall for the price it's definitely worth the buy 👍
Dogus Sahinoglu
10 months ago
Nice parts are already written so I want to tell you why it is not a 5 star game. Some in-game videos get are stuck, and you have to press the skip button, ending up losing a piece of story. Restarting game help, but until next lost video. Using almost immortal light fairy against Vikings, and if you are ranged-sneaky-build, shots out of range are must. Because the char is underpowered. You can't enjoy the game to the fullest when you have to use these kind of tricks.
A Google user
5 years ago
I decided to reinstall the game after awhile. I leveled up to level 3 after playing for a few hours and then decided to take a break. When I re-opened the game for some reason my saved game was gone and I had to start from level 1 again. What's the purpose of autosave? Im not gonna waste my time playing this game when my saved game can disappear just like that. Waste of money.
A Google user
4 years ago
Game is excellent with some hilarious dialouge. The only negative are the few bugs I encountered where an npc or enemy will glitch out. One such case is in the Highland Park where Mell gets stuck and doesn't open the magic gates. All these can be fixed by saving and restarting the game, but it causes a lot of backtracking. Other than that, this game is very good and worth the price.
Claudine Jaro
1 year ago
I wanted to like this game. The first time I downloaded it, I got a black screen. Maybe the files were corrupted? I downloaded again. I got into the game but as I was making my character, it crashed. Reopened, black screen again. Downloaded again, coz maybe I had to turn down the settings? Maybe it was my fault. Played until just past the first inn. Settings on low. Saved, then close the app because it's late. Now I am trying to play and guess what... black screen again. ROG 3 Android 12
John Kenna
1 year ago
I originally played this game 8yrs ago and decided to play again. Brilliant game with a great humour running through it. I marked it down a star because of the audio no play bug half way through the game (although it seemed to sort its self out after a while). Graphically things have moved on too and I would say this looks pretty poor these days. Strange thing is, with all graphics settings on, my top of the range Samsung S22 ultra felt sluggish - so not very well optimized.
Rich P
1 year ago
I gave this a lower rating initially because I encountered several game stopping bugs, storyline videos which wouldn't play and worst of all, the autosave "feature" which bugged out and reverted to a 3 day previous save state it had somehow "recovered" and overwritten my current one with. Disabling autosave may save your sanity, since it then lets you use multiple save slots (although management of these is sparse on options). With that said, there's a lot of gameplay to be had for a few quid.
A Google user
5 years ago
Hi, the overall game stimulation is good and fun. But there were some glitches in the game,such as missing audios, npcs not fulfilling his roles and stuff. Hope these changes will be made I encountered my new recent save got overwritten by my old saves... I spent alot of time clearing the stage but when the app suddenly crashes, I was returned back to the previous stage and had to restart everything!!!!! Augh it's frustrating. Please do something about this
Patrick Wood
11 months ago
Use an Xbox controller or any controller compatible, makes the game way better. Also get flail upgrade and the second upgrade, if you hold attack, you won't get stunned while holding attack, makes it easy mode, especially since stun lock is a bad problem in this game and using a flail the enemy can't block your attacks. Gameplay is similar to the older dungeon c crawlers, however the humor is what for me through the game, some parts were dreadful to go through, this game needs a remake 100%
A Google user
5 years ago
Missed this one on XBOX, but so glad I got it here. · Touch controls are better than KOTOR, Jade Empire, and all the GTA games. (Plus you can customize them a bit) & there's an option for a games of you have one. · Gameplay is like a simple & fun version of Baldur's Gate (though the story & dialogue is much funnier) · Graphics are great. It's a PS2/XB era title, so it may not look as good as modern mobile, but it more than makes up for that with the level of options available (tweak it to your phone's performance) Basically, look... If you've ever searched the Play Store forever looking for a decent RPG that wasn't a soulless, sterile cash-grab hiding behind shiny visuals (hey Gameloft!) you can stop here, because this is it. Highly, HIGHLY recommend.
Derp Farmer
1 year ago
I see tons of people thinking this game was made for Android, and complaining about certain game features (like not being able to save before final choice). This game is a port from original Xbox. The "devs" in this case have no ability to alter the game, other than "new" features loke the touch interface, or simply the stability of the port. All gameplay and mechanics were decided by the ACTUAL devs roughly 20 years ago. Deal with it.
AmyLDCCX
9 months ago
Love it! I've played on & off since 2017. No ads! I play on Android, tablet & PC emulator. Great graphics, fun story, funny & super creative NPC dialogue, quests, multiple zones, easy controls, character development, lots of loot, be good, be a scoundrel or be both, save locations, learn spells, attacks, heals, multiple game storage. One of the best mobile games period.
A Google user
5 years ago
Controls are easy to use with my xbox one controller. No clue about touch since I havent bothered to use them. The game is constantly funny, and sure to be worth every cent. No doubt I'll be playing this through multiple times, if only for the song in the bar at the beginning. Graphics seem like they could be a little better, but that may just be my tablet. Its fairly low end, and not very recent. I'll update on that when I upgrade next year.
A Google user
5 years ago
The auto-aim would fire at enemies while other times it fires at the wall or barrels while an enemy is next to you. I've tried to manually aim but would still fire at a wall instead. Once or twice the dialogue scenes would get stuck and you are forced to skip it. It seems like the game would change your talent from arrow storm I was using to dog trainer (1st talent on the list). Gave up trying to play the other two games. Loved the game, story and banter when it worked as expected.
Caleb Temple
2 years ago
Funny game, good concept, humorous things all throughout. It doesn't last very long, though. You don't get to free roam once you beat it in case there were maps you didn't buy for the hidden treasures or areas you may want to grind on. That's really the only thing I was disappointed in. I did buy the whole game deal. I was expecting more, I suppose.
A Google user
4 years ago
Look, this game has a lot more to it than a lot of Android / mobile games. The songs are entertaining, the dialog humorous, controls are decent. But... They do not tell you that if you have your cloud sync saves on (save games to Google drive), and you play offline for whatever reason (in my case, FIVE HOURS of progress), and then regain internet, that you're cloud save will likely overwrite your current save. You'll lose everything, and you can't get it back. It's not worth playing that again.
A Google user
4 years ago
One of the best mobile games I've run into. It has quality graphics, voices, sound, scripting, etc. You don't have to spend a cent to finish it all either. Gameplay is easy, for instance if you find a better item it automatically replaces the one you have. No need to struggle with item management. It is even pretty funny with well written conversations, musical numbers and a nice plot twist at the end. My only complaint is I wanted more.
quotetheraven72
1 year ago
It's a decent port of the PC game, lots of humor throughout the game. I took a long break and after the recent October 2022 update the audio voice no longer works. I had to install the game on a newer phone. Still a neat game overall, controls are good, but could be improved. The shield and attack buttons are too close to the edge of the screen. Maybe add the ability to move or customize button placement. I hope they will consider this in a future update.
