The Mage's Tale
Welcome, apprentice of the mystic arts! The corrupt wizard Gaufroi has kidnapped your master, Mage Alguin, and you are the only one who has any hope of saving him. You may be an apprentice now, but to save…
The Mage's Tale is an adventure developed by inXile Entertainment, released 20 June 2017 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Mage's Tale is
The Mage's Tale is an adventure game developed by inXile Entertainment and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Welcome, apprentice of the mystic arts! The corrupt wizard Gaufroi has kidnapped your master, Mage Alguin, and you are the only one who has any hope of saving him. You may be an apprentice now, but to save your master, you will need to explore ten deadly dungeons, decipher mind-bending puzzles, avoid terrifying traps, and vanquish hordes of vicious monsters. Until you are able to wield every elemental power in the palm of your hand, evil remains ascendant! It is your turn now to sling gouts of flame, javelins of ice, arcs of lightning, and swirling tempests! Don your wizard's robe and begin your Mage's Tale!
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 41 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Bard's Tale series
The Mage's Tale is the sixth of 7 entries we hold in the The Bard's Tale series. It arrived 13 years after The Bard's Tale. The next entry was The Bard's Tale IV in 2018. Its critic score of 69 is 2 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is The Bard's Tale at 77.
How it was received
The Mage's Tale holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 970/AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Mage's Tale launched on 20 June 2017, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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