Preview and Preorder Info Available for The Bard's Tale IV

New information has just been released by inXile Entertainment regarding the newest iteration of the Bard's Tale series, called the Bard's Tale IV: Barrow's Deep, due out this year.

Besides the demo walkthrough - half an hour of gameplay video recently released by the developer - preorder information has also been revealed, available on the game's newly relaunched website here.

Funded for a whopping $1.5 million by Kickstarter (with a matching amount from InXile) in 2015 and designed from the ground up by veterans of the genre from titles like Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera, Barrow's Deep is meant to carry on the legacy of the original trilogy. Set 100 years after the events of Thief of Fate, the third installation of the series which feels like it was released 100 actual years ago (calm down, it was only 20 years ago), the world of Skara Brae is under assault once more by mysterious shadowy forces, and it's up to the player to build a team of up to six adventurers to face the challenges ahead, which include not only a plethora of dangerous foes, but also over 200 puzzles and riddles to keep the mind sharp.

More details, including how to preorder, can be found at the website above. No official release date has been announced other than that it's still expected to come out this year.