The Ballad Singer is an asymmetric adventure, inspired by RPGs and game books, where you can experience many dynamic stories. Forge the fate of Hesperia through the stories of four different adventurers in a fantasy world completely illustrated and narrated.
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Mostly Positive (48) - 70% of the 48 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Feb 15, 2019
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Reviews

“A great graphic adventure that will capture fans of role-playing games.”
8.2/10 – Gamodrome

“The Ballad Singer is a magnificient visual novel! The illustrations are exceptionally beautiful, and we are quickly transported into the world of the game!”
8/10 – Couple of Gamer

“We recommend the title to lovers of the RPG genre and graphic adventures and in general to anyone who wants to enjoy in peace a beautiful story told really well.”
8.4/10 – Games Village

About This Game

The Ballad Singer is an RPG/Graphic Adventure, set in a fantasy world completely controlled by the player's choices.

We've taken elements from game-books and visual novels to develop a videogame with an unprecedented format. TBS offers a fantasy story yet to be written, where the world changes and reacts to the player's actions. This will allow you to live up to 1700 stories and 40 different endings, your decisions will affect the way the tale unfolds. Every single development and subplot in the story is completely narrated and illustrated, even the smallest ones. In TBS, every choice is crucial.

Features:



  • Four heroes with different narrative developments
  • Asymmetric stories intertwining one to the other
  • During a single run with a character you will never face two fights alike
  • Your choices really matter, you can completely change the fate of the heroes through your decisions
  • Three degrees of challenge: deceive death and repeat mortal choices through powerful artefacts
  • Replayability: only by replaying TBS you will be able to discover the different decisional paths of each hero
  • Domino System: a choice in the first minutes of play could have strong repercussions throughout the course of the adventure
  • Fully narrated story, over 400,000 words and 40 hours of narration
  • More than 700 HD illustrations
  • Over 40 musical tracks
  • 400 different detailed deaths
  • Dying is part of the story, so there is no "Game Over". When a character you're playing as dies, you will play as a new hero, within the same story, in a different narrative path

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Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game includes fantasy violence scenes with the representation of wounds and blood.
Also, there are naked characters but without explicit content.

System Requirements

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macOS
    Minimum:
    • OS *: 32-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel Pentium 1.4GHz / AMD Athlon x4
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: On-board graphic card
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 6 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Standard on-board sound card
    Recommended:
    • OS *: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel Core i3 / AMD a8
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX / Radeon HD 5850
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 6 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Mac OS X 10.7
    • Processor: Intel Core i3
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia or Ati GPU with 512mb Memory
    • Storage: 6 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Mac OS X 10.8+
    • Processor: 2011 or newer Intel Core i5
    • Memory: 6 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia or Ati GPU with 1GB Memory
    • Storage: 6 GB available space

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