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An idle-leaning indie game, Bard Idle comes from illegal-turtle, listed as both developer and publisher. Its 2025 Steam release has 832 reviews at 70% positive, putting reception in the mixed-to-positive range.
Overview
Bard Idle is a 2025 Indie game developed by Illegal Turtle 🐢 and published by Illegal Turtle 🐢. On Steam it has gathered 833 player reviews, 70% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer Illegal Turtle 🐢 with publisher Illegal Turtle 🐢 is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. Because Bard Idle is free to play, indielist does not convert its review count into paid copies or revenue; this page reports reception and catalog facts instead. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Bard Idle can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and public reception.
Reviews
833
Positive
70%
Steam appid
1803580
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Paid sales estimate unavailable
This game is free to play. Steam reviews measure reception, not paid copies, so indielist does not publish unit-sales or revenue estimates for it.
Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- Is Bard Idle free to play?
- Yes. Bard Idle is free to play, so indielist reports its Steam reviews and catalog data without publishing paid-copy or revenue estimates.
- Who developed Bard Idle?
- Bard Idle was developed by Illegal Turtle 🐢 and published by Illegal Turtle 🐢.
- Who published Bard Idle?
- Bard Idle was published by Illegal Turtle 🐢, developed by Illegal Turtle 🐢. See Illegal Turtle 🐢's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Bard Idle released?
- Bard Idle was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Bard Idle have on Steam?
- Bard Idle has 833 Steam reviews, of which 70% are positive.
- Is Bard Idle worth playing?
- Steam players rate Bard Idle 70% positive across 833 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and catalog facts so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Bard Idle can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Illegal Turtle 🐢's other releases and Illegal Turtle 🐢's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Bard Idle sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Bard Idle page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and received, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and catalog figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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