The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate (1988) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate

The warriors who have destroyed the evil wizard Mangar receive a letter while celebrating their victory. The letter informs them of a terrible disaster: Mangar's master, the Mad God Tarjan, has unleashed his…

31 December 1988

What The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate is

The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Interplay Productions and released in 1988. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Amiga, Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The warriors who have destroyed the evil wizard Mangar receive a letter while celebrating their victory. The letter informs them of a terrible disaster: Mangar's master, the Mad God Tarjan, has unleashed his wrath upon the town of Skara Brae, completely destroying in. The heroes visit a refugee camp nearby and embark on a quest to defeat Tarjan. Thief of Fate is the third installment in the Bard's Tale series, and a sequel to The Destiny Knight. It is similar to its predecessors, being a first-person fantasy role-playing game in which the player explores maze-like pseudo-3D towns, dungeons, and wilderness areas. Two new character classes have been added: Geomancer and Chronomancer. There…

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 III: Thief of Fate is the third of 7 entries we hold in the The Bard's Tale series. It arrived 2 years after The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight. The next entry was The Bard's Tale Construction Set in 1991.

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

What it launched against

The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad and Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.

Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.

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