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The Mage's Tale

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The Mage's Tale
The Mage's Tale cover
Developers
inXile Entertainment
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows June 20, 2017
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Gestures
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series The Bard's Tale
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The Mage's Tale on Wikipedia
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

Warnings

This game requires a virtual reality headset (see VR support for details).

The Mage's Tale is a singleplayer first-person RPG game in the The Bard's Tale series.

General information

Official support page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Oculus Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/766320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/766320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

This game requires a virtual reality headset (see VR support for details).
Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Up to 180° per eye
Windowed
For mirrored view
Borderless fullscreen windowed
For mirrored view
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

VR support

This game requires a virtual reality headset.

Issues fixed

Stuck after magic mirror puzzle

The issue is mostly reported in Windows N and KN versions.
Install the Windows Media Feature Pack[1]
  1. Download and install the Windows Media Feature Pack.

Character stuck

Perform the "Respawn Reset" command combination[2]
  1. Press and hold LeftTrigger+LeftGrip+X and RightTrigger+RightGrip+A, all at once, for 10 seconds or until fade away.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-4590
AMD FX-8350
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 27.05 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 290


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>/766320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (766320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References