Top 15 The Bard's Tale Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

The Bard's Tale is a legendary RPG that achieved fame through releases on early computer systems including Apple II, Amiga and Commodore 64 and finally a smash PC hit through a DOS release. It's the turn-based, first person, dungeon crawler that set the bar for many others to follow. It's now available across multiple desktop and mobile platforms as a revamped, real-time 3D RPG with the classic, turn based adventure series bundled in.

1. Wizardry

Wizardry Wizardry is a legend of RPG gaming from the early days of PCs and other home computers. It stands as a genre definer with its turn-based, first-person dungeon crawling mechanics. The game series is now available across multiple desktop systems by way of custom DOSBox emulation.......

2. The Deep Paths

The Deep Paths The Deep Paths: Labyrinth Of Andokost is a traditional, turn-based RPG in the vein of classics like Lands of Lore (series) . Discover a massive, richly detailed labyrinth full of perils and treasure.......

3. Deadly Dungeons

Deadly Dungeons Deadly Dungeons is a traditional, turn-based 3D RPG dungeon crawler set in an original fantasy game universe.FEATURESMassive and deadly dungeon environments to adventurer through.Randomly generated dungeon levels, creatures, and items.Pages worth of dialog, journal entries, and environmental descriptions of the dungeon environment.First-person dungeon crawlingTouch-based interface.......

4. Heroes of a Broken Land

Heroes of a Broken Land Heroes of a Broken Land is a classic style, turn-based RPG with distinctive gameplay elements like world randomization, town building and multiple party control.FEATURES Procedurally generated worlds and dungeons for unlimited replay Customize your world - from tiny worlds to epic adventures Choose one of six Wizards to control, each......

5. The Quest

The Quest The Quest is a turn-based, open-world RPG in the vein of classic dungeon crawlers like The Bard's Tale . Featuring beautiful, hand-drawn graphics, the game casts players in an epic adventure with scores of optional, side quests.......

6. Oz: Broken Kingdom™

Oz: Broken Kingdom™ Battle the Great Darkness that has cast its shadow across the peaceful Land of Oz. Join the kingdom's brave new heroine Ophelia Shen, along with the legendary heroes of Oz – Tin Man, Lion, and Scarecrow – as they embark on an epic quest to stop the rising evil, restore......

7. Pathos:Nethack Codex

Pathos:Nethack Codex Pathos is a roguelike adventure game based on the rule set from Nethack. Choose from 13 classes and journey deep into the dungeon. Descend to hell to defeat your nemesis before escaping the dungeon with all the loot you can carry!......

8. Betrayer

Betrayer Betrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century.The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia. Instead, you find only ghosts and mysteries. What catastrophe blighted......

9. Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME)

Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME) Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME) is an open-source, single-player, tactical role-playing roguelike and action game set in the world of Eyal.This is the Age of Ascendancy, after over ten thousand years of strife, pain and chaos the known world is at last at relative peace. The Spellblaze last effects are now......

10. Angband

Angband Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game. You play an adventurer seeking riches, fighting monsters, and preparing for a final battle with Morgoth, the Lord of Darkness.......

11. Darkest Dungeon

Darkest Dungeon Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring.Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Uncover strange mysteries, and......

12. Moria

Moria Moria is a roguelike computer game based heavily on J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. The game's objective is to kill a Balrog, presumably Durin's Bane, deep within the Mines of Moria. A later port of Moria called Umoria (UNIX Moria) inspired the Angband roguelike game.......

13. Ananias Roguelike

Ananias Roguelike Explore the ancient ruins, survive to the bottom level and save the world. Every time you play the game will create a new dungeon full of challenges and surprises for you in 5 different environments populated with monsters and ancient magical artifacts.There are eight different player classes, each one designed......

14. QuestLord

QuestLord A new turn-based Role Playing Game in the classic style of the legendary Computer Role Playing Games that defined the genre.In QuestLord you assume the role of a lone hero out to save the Shattered Realm from certain destruction!FEATURES* Dungeon crawling action!* Screen swiping combat!* More than just DUNGEON CRAWLING......

15. Legend of Grimrock

Legend of Grimrock Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawling role playing game with an oldschool heart but a modern execution. A group of prisoners are sentenced to certain death by exiling them to the secluded Mount Grimrock for vile crimes they may or may not have committed. Unbeknownst to their captivators, the......