The Bard's Tale

Name: The Bard's Tale
Price: 2.99 USD
Rating: 4.5 (656 reviews)
Author: inXile Entertainment

By: inXile Entertainment

Roleplaying

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Features & Capabilities

Experience The Bard's Tale as a massive, humorous 3D RPG on iOS with a sprawling world, 50 enemy types, 16 summonable characters, and the classic trilogy. Enjoy iCloud saves, leaderboards, autosave, and 60Hz rendering on capable devices.

Play as the Bard, summon up to 16 magical companions to aid your quest, battle through 20-30 hours of adventure, and experience top-tier voice acting, boss battles, and cross-device save syncing. The universal app also includes GamePad support and optional time-savers for a faster journey.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

inXile Entertainment

Rating:

4.50

(656) 1 new ratings

Version:

1.9.3 Last updated: 2022-10-14

Version code:

852759794

Creation date:

2011-12-01

Compatible devices:

Size:

1.69GB

Price:

2.99

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-06

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 70,948 ▲ 10

Other platforms

The Bard's Tale (v1.7.2)

682,192 4.44

(73,024)

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Developed by:

inXile Entertainment

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-bards-tale/id480375355

Website:

https://www.facebook.com/TheBardsTale/?ref=br_rs

User Reviews

The Bard’s Tale mobile port shines for nostalgic fans with witty writing, great voice acting, atmosphere, and controller support, offering a fun, accessible RPG with lots of content. However, multiple reviews flag stability and compatibility problems (crashes, iPadOS 16/patch issues) and a challenging combat pace, plus occasional UI/translation glitches. Overall, it’s a charming, funny RPG that’s worth a shot for fans, but recent builds struggle with stability and device compatibility.

Pros

Hilarious writing and memorable voice acting (the Bard's lines, with Cary Elwes cited) and strong overall humor.
Strong nostalgic appeal with a faithful Bard's Tale atmosphere, plus solid music and ambience.
Controller support on mobile improves accessibility and playability.
Engaging, streamlined RPG with plenty of content and side quests that fans can enjoy without heavy micromanagement.

Cons

Frequent stability issues: crashes and freezes reported across devices and after updates.
OS/device compatibility problems, especially with iPadOS 16 and patches (some devices like iPad mini affected).
Frustrating or punishing difficulty/pacing in combat (hard even on easy, slow spell-casting, reliance on buffs).
Occasional UI/translation/localization bugs (missing conversation options early on; translation quality issues) that affect playability.

Recent reviews

Loved the og games when I was a kid, so I figured why not have some fun…and I did, right up til the third game 1 and 2 worked great, but when I try to play 3 it went south real fast First and worst, it won’t let me bring my characters from 1&2 over, and I spent a lot of time building up a strong party Ok, I can get over that, the will still be fun, right? Wrong Second, it forces you to use keyboard mode only, no mouse or touch screen options Alright, annoying but doable if you want to put in the work, just have to get used to looking at an even smaller screen, thankfully the graphics are up to par…oh wait Third they used a really bad version for the final game, looks like a 1970s 4-bit console game Play the first 2 for fun if you want, just be prepared for a Soprano-esque ending