Our former John (RPS in peace) declared The Bard’s Tale IV to be “a shoddy old mess burying some nice ideas” after it launched in September 2018. Faint praise indeed for InXile Entertainment’s revival of the fantasy RPG series. Just under one year later, InXile have relaunched the game as a “Director’s Cut” with a big load of bug fixes, tweaks, new places to plunder, new baddies to bash, performance improvements, and more. Might this clear some off the muck off the game’s good parts and let them shine more? If you bought it the first time around you can see for free, as original owners automatically get the Director’s Cut too.

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