inXile Entertainment has made a bit of a name for themselves recently by breathing new life into old franchises with games like Wasteland 2 and Planescape: Torment spiritual successor Torment: Tides of Numenerra. Some may forget the game that really blasted their career off, though. The 2004 cult classic The Bard's Tale is neither sequel nor remake of the 1985 original, but kept the original's RPG concepts in mind while also borrowing from more contemporary titles like the Baldur's Gate series. In a somewhat ironic twist, inXile has returned to breathe more life The Bard's Tale franchise with The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep, a proper sequel to the original series.