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The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep

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For the Director's Cut, see The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut.

The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep cover
Developers
inXile Entertainment
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows September 18, 2018
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series The Bard's Tale
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The Bard's Tale
The Bard's Tale 1987
The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight 1988
The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate 1990
The Bard's Tale Construction Set 1991
The Bard's Tale (2005) 2005
The Mage's Tale 2017
The Bard's Tale Trilogy 2018
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep 2018
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut 2019

The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is a singleplayer first-person RPG game in the The Bard's Tale series.

The game was delisted when the Director's Cut was released on August 27, 2019. Prior owners received the latter for free.

General information

Official support page
Official wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
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Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\181CBCCD.TheBardsTaleIV_9y3t8zad226mc\LocalCache\Local\BardsTale4DC\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/566090/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/566090/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
See also the WSGF topic.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
None, FXAA and Temporal AA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Limited support at launch but was patched out
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Sound FX, Ambient Sound, UI, Music and VO
Surround sound
Stereo, Surround 5.1 and Surround 7.1
Subtitles
Subtitles and Combat Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See The Bards Tale IV - Barrows Deep - 3DV-Ready-Fix - V-1.00 - Losti.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 8, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-4590 equivalent or greater
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 55 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
AMD 290 equivalent or greater


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/566090/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (566090) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References