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The Bard's Tale Construction Set

The Bard's Tale Construction Set is computer software that allows the user to create simple dungeon crawl video games using The Bard's Tale game engine. It was created by Interplay Productions in 1991 and…

31 December 1991

The Bard's Tale Construction Set is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Interplay Productions, released 31 December 1991 on Amiga and DOS.

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What The Bard's Tale Construction Set is

The Bard's Tale Construction Set is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Interplay Productions and released in 1991. It is available on Amiga and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Bard's Tale Construction Set is computer software that allows the user to create simple dungeon crawl video games using The Bard's Tale game engine. It was created by Interplay Productions in 1991 and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was released for the Amiga and MS-DOS.
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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Bard's Tale series

The Bard's Tale Construction Set is the fourth of 7 entries we hold in the The Bard's Tale series. It arrived 3 years after The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate. The next entry was The Bard's Tale in 2004.

See all 7 The Bard's Tale games in release order →

What it launched against

The Bard's Tale Construction Set launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams and Baseball Stars 2.

Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Baseball Stars 2.

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When did The Bard's Tale Construction Set come out?
The Bard's Tale Construction Set was released on 31 December 1991 for Amiga and DOS.

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