The Bard's Tale Trilogy

The Bard's Tale Trilogy collects three fantasy dungeon-crawling RPGs. Create an adventuring party and take on each game's quest, from rescuing a city threatened by a wizard to seeking a legendary wand and traveling across time and space.

Explore towns and first-person, grid-based dungeons, uncover routes and key items, navigate traps, and solve puzzles and riddles. Turn-based battles pit your party against groups of enemies, with attacks, spells, equipment, and bard songs to use.

Build characters from different races and classes, develop their abilities as they gain levels, and carry the same party through all three games. The remaster adds features such as automapping, an in-game manual and bestiary, updated inventory management, and optional Legacy Mode settings.

Reviewers often enjoy revisiting the trilogy's old-school dungeon crawling, especially when nostalgia meets the remaster's automapping and other convenience features. Party building, exploration, and the gradual growth of characters are also recurring sources of enjoyment. Some reviewers find the games dated or grindy, and opinions differ on the challenge, artwork, and quality of the individual entries.