Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Sale Cuts Bethesda-Style RPG by 50% on Steam
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, the indie open-world RPG that has spent the past year drawing comparisons to Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series, is now sitting at its steepest discount ever on Steam. Developer Questline and publisher Awaken Realms confirmed on the game’s official Steam Community page that the base game and its Sanctuary of Sarras expansion are both 50% off, alongside a new free DLC drop and patch 1.25.
The developers themselves flagged this as the biggest sale the game has run since launch, telling players they can grab both the base game and the Sanctuary of Sarras expansion with a 50% discount. The studio’s official social account echoed the same message, calling it “the biggest sale ever” and inviting anyone who has been sitting on the fence to jump in.
What’s Bundled Into the Tainted Grail Discount
The sale isn’t limited to the standalone base game. Steam listings show matching 50% cuts across the Supporters Pack, the Sanctuary of Sarras DLC, and bundle editions like the Excalibur Edition and Adventurer Pack, which combine the core RPG with its first full expansion. Sanctuary of Sarras is the first full-fledged expansion for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, with around 15 hours of new adventures awaiting players.
Alongside the discount, Questline shipped a fresh piece of free content. The studio is bringing another free DLC for the game, adding new weapons and armor for the archer and sorcerer archetypes, expanding the build-crafting options for players already deep into their runs. That content arrives bundled with patch 1.25, which the developers describe as carrying various fixes and improvements to the live game.
A Love Letter to Open-World RPGs, Built Outside Bethesda
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon launched on PC via Steam and GOG on May 23, 2025, built by Polish studio Questline and published under Awaken Realms, the company behind the original Tainted Grail tabletop RPG franchise. Its Steam page pitches it as a mature, first-person perspective open-world RPG that immerses players in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legends, letting them shape the legacy of King Arthur’s reign 600 years after his fall.
Critics have consistently drawn the same comparison the marketing leans into. PC Gamer’s review found that Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon puts an interesting spin on Arthurian legend and presents a competent world that plays like a love letter to the open-world first-person RPG genre, adding that in a genre largely dominated by Bethesda and Obsidian, it’s good to see a new developer making its mark, with Questline punching above its weight. Metacritic’s aggregated critic consensus goes further, noting the game is an incredible western RPG that draws big inspiration from Bethesda games of old, succeeding where recent similar titles like Starfield and Avowed failed to capture that essence.
The reception isn’t uniformly glowing, though. Reviewers have repeatedly flagged rough technical edges as the flip side of the game’s ambition, describing it as an RPG built on a leaner budget that still ships with jank, bugs and unfinished-feeling systems even after more than a year of post-launch patching. Steam’s own review aggregate currently sits at Very Positive, with 87% of 18,779 user reviews positive, while the most recent 30 days show 83% of 1,087 reviews positive — figures that track closely with the Metacritic and OpenCritic scores gathered since launch.
Why the Comparison to Elder Scrolls Still Lands
The “Bethesda but not Bethesda” framing keeps resurfacing partly because the real Elder Scrolls sequel remains stuck in development limbo. Journalist Jason Schreier told a Bloomberg Live Q&A that the open world RPG is still “two to three years away at least”, a timeline that would push The Elder Scrolls 6 to 2028 or later, more than eight years after its original 2018 reveal. That backdrop has made room for smaller studios to court the same audience of open-world explorers hungry for a new Skyrim-style adventure.
Recent Xbox restructuring has only added uncertainty to that wait. Following recent Xbox layoffs, Microsoft confirmed it is shifting its focus to getting properties like The Elder Scrolls out more quickly, with an Xbox executive specifically highlighting Bethesda’s popular IP as a top priority. Whether that reshuffle actually shortens the wait or not, it leaves a gap that titles like Tainted Grail are positioned to fill in the meantime.
Grabbing the Deal in NZ and Australia
For Kiwi and Australian players eyeing the discount, the sale runs directly through Steam’s storefront alongside the base game’s normal regional pricing, with the 50% cut applying automatically at checkout in local currency. The title is also Steam Deck verified, making it a reasonable pick-up for handheld players wanting a long-form RPG to chip away at during commutes, though it’s worth noting it isn’t currently available on PC Game Pass, despite Microsoft’s service offering a variety of other titles.
With 50-70 hours of content spread across three zones, plus the newly discounted Sanctuary of Sarras expansion adding another 10-15 hours, this sale window gives regional players a low-cost entry point into one of the more talked-about AA RPGs of the past year — right as the genre’s biggest name stays firmly on ice.
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