The Bard’s Tale Trilogy Coming to Xbox One and Mac

Earlier this year, the team over at Krome Studios released an updated version of Thief of Fate – the final part of the remastered The Bard’s Tale trilogy. The new edition ended up being quite successful and as a result, it will be making its way over to Xbox One on August 13, 2019, with a Mac version already in the works. In order to let us know about this fact, inXile Entertainment has put together this trailer:

And this official Reddit post that talks about The Bard’s Tale Trilogy and Krome Studios’ upcoming Wasteland 30th Anniversary Edition remaster.

With The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut and Wasteland 3 on the horizon, it’s a fantastic time for RPG fans to go back to where it all began with The Bard’s Tale Trilogy, arriving on Xbox and PC with Xbox Game Pass on August 13 and with a major update on Steam and GOG. Later this year Wasteland 30th Anniversary Edition will also be landing, a remaster of the original classic that began the post-apocalyptic gaming genre.

​ The 1985 classic The Bard’s Tale, along with its two sequels, revolutionized and helped define the growing computer RPG genre. Three years later, Wasteland brought the post-apocalypse to gaming with narrative innovations that helped inspire many future games, including the Fallout series. Last year, The Bard’s Tale Trilogy released on Steam and GOG to popular acclaim and now both of these classics are being remastered and are arriving on Xbox One and for PC on the Microsoft Store, and both will be available with Xbox Game Pass at launch. Wasteland 30th Anniversary Edition will also be coming to Steam and GOG as well on its release date.

The Bard’s Tale Trilogy features all three original games (Tales of the Unknown, The Destiny Knight, and Thief of Fate), each remastered with updated graphics and audio that still retain the 8-bit spirit of the originals. The Bard’s Tale series pioneered the ability to transfer your characters from the first game to the next, and that’s been recreated in the Trilogy, allowing you to form a party in the first title and take them on a heroic journey across all three games. Quality of life options such as automapping (put away that graph paper!), an in-game manual and bestiary, and the ability to save your game at any time make the titles more accessible than ever before. However, if you’re pining for the 1980’s experience and difficulty (take out that graph paper!), The Bard’s Tale Trilogy features Legacy Mode, a series of options that let you play the game at the original difficulty and without modern amenities.

Wasteland 30th Anniversary Edition is a remaster of the classic game that brought the post-apocalypse to RPGs, and it’s arriving later this year. For fans eagerly awaiting Wasteland 3, it’ll be the perfect opportunity to see where the story of the Desert Rangers all began.

Perhaps the biggest addition is the new localization effort, providing language support for French, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish for both titles!

You’ll have countless hours of fantastic adventuring ahead of you with inXile’s upcoming releases: The Bard’s Tale Trilogy (August 13), The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut (August 27), Wasteland 30th Anniversary Edition (Q4 2019), and Wasteland 3 (Spring 2020)! Great days are ahead for RPG fans!