The Bard's Tale IV

The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep takes players to an astonishing adventure packed with puzzle-filled dungeon-crawling and turn-based strategy combat. Blending classic RPG gameplay and fantasy storytelling with…

55 18 September 2018

Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy

The Bard's Tale IV is a role-playing (rpg) developed by inXile Entertainment, released 18 September 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 25 Aug 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What The Bard's Tale IV is

The Bard's Tale IV is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by inXile Entertainment and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep takes players to an astonishing adventure packed with puzzle-filled dungeon-crawling and turn-based strategy combat. Blending classic RPG gameplay and fantasy storytelling with modern design and visuals, The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is perfect for longtime fans and intrepid newcomers alike.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 58 achievements to unlock.

Where it sits in the The Bard's Tale series

The Bard's Tale IV is the seventh of 7 entries we hold in the The Bard's Tale series. It arrived a year after The Mage's Tale. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 55 is 12 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is The Bard's Tale at 77.

See all 7 The Bard's Tale games in release order →

How it was received

The Bard's Tale IV holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2500K (4 * 3300) or equivalent, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2048 MB) or Radeon HD 7970 (3072 MB). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 55GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

The Bard's Tale IV launched on 18 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 3 videos →

Screenshots

All media

Dlc

The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut

27 August 2019

Quick answers

The Bard's Tale IV — frequently asked questions

When did The Bard's Tale IV come out?

The Bard's Tale IV was released on 18 September 2018 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for The Bard's Tale IV?

At minimum, The Bard's Tale IV needs Intel Core i5-2500K (4 * 3300) or equivalent, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2048 MB) or Radeon HD 7970 (3072 MB) graphics, 55 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is The Bard's Tale IV?

The PC version needs about 55 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("55 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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