The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight (1986) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight

When the going gets even tougher... Another wolf! Your magic sword cleaves him mid snarl, and he drops in a fur pile at your feet. There's a slime ball conjurer just out of reach who'll keep summoning these…

31 December 1986

What The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight is

The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Interplay Productions and released in 1986. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

When the going gets even tougher... Another wolf! Your magic sword cleaves him mid snarl, and he drops in a fur pile at your feet. There's a slime ball conjurer just out of reach who'll keep summoning these slobbering missiles until your sword arm drops off. Unless you can figure out a way to get at him. When you put Mangar out to pasture, all you really wanted was a bottomless mug and an ace up your sleeve. So what are you doing out here in the gnarly wilderness, knee deep in wolf meat, itching to put an arrow through the Adam's apple of some spell caster? It must be your destiny. Between the six cities lies an immense wilderness. It's a mapping challenge never before seen in a fantasy…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. 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 II: The Destiny Knight is the second of 7 entries we hold in the The Bard's Tale series. It arrived a year after Tales of the Unknown: Volume I - The Bard's Tale. The next entry was The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate in 1988.

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