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2018 · RPG · Dungeon Crawler · Grid-Based Movement

How long isThe Bard's Tale Trilogy?

by Krome Studios & inXile Entertainment

18 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 6.5 hours and 45 hours

The Bard's Tale Trilogy cover

The Bard's Tale Trilogy among the 127 dungeon crawlers here

The whole tier list
CPlayed tier

#80

of 127

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

39%
got past 2 hours
−6 on the kind's 45%
0%
past 20 hours
−10 on the kind's 10%
53%
launched it
−10 on the kind's 63%
97
libraries own it
1 in 26 of the 2,477 read here
The Bard's Tale Trilogy ↓
#1 Last Epoch#127
47% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Does The Bard's Tale Trilogy hold up?

Holds steady

Holds up seal

At least 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 100 hours played.

Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.

Do the first two hours of The Bard's Tale Trilogy tell you?

In the first two hours78%recommend it

After that96%recommend it

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 18 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6.5 hours and 45 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,570 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 94% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

6% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 78% of those recommend it. After the window, 96% do.

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When would you get there?

18days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 18 hours on Wednesday, December 2.

Half of its reviewers had played between 6.5 and 45 hours: Nov 21 to Dec 29 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in The Bard's Tale Trilogy?

The filter

Crystal Clear

9 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Storm the Gates and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. A Good YearFind the wine cellar.−6931% hold it
  3. Something's SmellyEnter the sewers.−328% hold it
  4. The Magic WordEnter the catacombs.−622% hold it
  5. Storm the GatesEnter Harkyn's Castle.22% hold it
  6. Crystal ClearDefeat the Crystal Golem.Filtered −913% hold it
  7. EndgameEnter Mangar's Tower.−112% hold it
  8. Heroes of Skara BraeComplete Tales of the Unknown by defeating Mangar and rescuing Skara Brae.−29.7% hold it
How this is counted

31% of the players who launched The Bard's Tale Trilogy hold A Good Year, its first story achievement on Steam, and 9.7% hold Heroes of Skara Brae, its last. The steepest drop comes between Storm the Gates (22%) and Crystal Clear (13%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is The Bard's Tale Trilogy worth it?

Is The Bard's Tale Trilogy worth it? Mostly.

  • Good value

    2× the hours of a typical dungeon crawler, for the same money

  • Loved

    96% recommend it after the refund windowmost dungeon crawlers: 87%

  • Often left unplayed

    53% of owners here have played itmost dungeon crawlers: 68%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 18 hours come to 83¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 83¢ an hour, The Bard's Tale Trilogy is cheaper per hour than 149 of 184 dungeon crawlers here: the typical one of 184 dungeon crawlers here charges $1.63, so the same $14.99 buys 2× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (dungeon crawlers) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play The Bard's Tale Trilogy today?

On Xbox One and PC

Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.

  1. todayXbox One2019
  2. todayPC2020in The Bard's Tale: Remastered and Resnarkled
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Bard's Tale Trilogy came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like The Bard's Tale Trilogy?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Bard's Tale Trilogy, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Bard's Tale Trilogy would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

@radu107 holds this page

  1. 1st@radu1072.5 h
  2. 2nd@darthvader71 min
  3. 3rd@tyr1 min

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

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How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from The Bard's Tale Trilogy: a kind of game it is that The Bard's Tale Trilogy is not, a feature its tags carry that The Bard's Tale Trilogy's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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