Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon recently received another major patch that adds an impressive amount of content to the game. Developer Questline has worked hard to smooth out many of the issues Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon players have experienced, including performance and balance issues.
The game is a dark fantasy RPG inspired by Arthurian legends and games like The The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon has received plenty of updates since its full 1.0 release in May 2025 and is currently being reviewed as Very Positive on Steam, having amassed an impressive following for an AA title from a small but mighty developer. The title recently saw a major content update with its first DLC, Sanctuary of Sarraswhich added a brand new zone filled with quests to complete, dungeons to explore and loot to find. This latest update is just one of many Questline has planned for the game.
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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon adds more content and smooths out its third act
Questline released Patch 1.20 for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon on March 3. With it, the developer added a selection of new content for the game's third act, which is an oft-referenced pain point for players. The new content looks to smooth out the game's later experience by adding more content and balancing certain items to slow down the player's power. According to the developer, some players have said that the power increases too quickly in the latter half of the game, trivializing much of the content.
The team has also added new quality of life improvements, including the ability to favorite items in the inventory, and a long-awaited performance update for the game on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon now has a 40 FPS mode that can be activated on console, which should be a big improvement to how the game works. The latest patch also improves the art and level design of the game's third act, Forlorn Swords.
Additionally, players will have a new area to explore and new bosses to fight. With Patch 1.20, players can now face the Sleepwalker – a melee-focused, golem-like creature that appears to be made of stone, trees and ice – and the Cairnguard, an agile fighter type that uses quick punches and slams. The new area, Etherbloom Love, is a cave for players to immerse themselves in. Questline also added a new customizable player house, audio improvements, and quest improvements. The team also said that the next free DLC content they had announced for the end of March is still being worked on, but Questline should have more details to share soon. There are plenty of new secrets to dive into with this latest update, but there are also past secrets to find out Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalonalso.
The power scaling, which includes a soft cap for player stats, and the new balancing for late game items are both optional additions. If players don't want to feel their characters being weakened, they can still use the pre-patch version of the items and turn off the soft cap in the game's settings. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon also has difficulty scaling options for players to customize their experience to how they like it.
Questline has been releasing steady updates for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalonwhich addresses many of the game's issues, including console performance, a lackluster third act, clunky missions, and bugs. As such, the game is in a much better condition now than when it was released. At its peak, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon had 25,656 concurrent players, according to SteamDB, which is an impressive number for an AA dark-fantasy RPG. While the game currently has 3,169 concurrent players after receiving a boost from the latest content update, combined with the very positive reviews on Steam, it's a good indication that the game has a healthy player base. With the planned upcoming content from developer Questline, players can expect to hear more Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon news in the coming months.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Update 1.20 Patch Notes
Patch 1.20 adds new content, performance improvements, and quality of life updates, among other things. Check out the full patch notes below:
New content
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Etherbloom Love: A new mini-dungeon to explore in Act 3
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New mini-bosses: Cairnguard and Sleepwalker
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New assignment: The empty house
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New Player Residence: Alisa's Seacoast Manor is now a customizable home.
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New Act 3 articles have been added
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New quest rewards for Left behind and The crushed pride
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New NPC added to Remors' Cave.
Balancing changes
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Optional soft cap for statistics
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Optional item rebalancing
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Enemy XP tweaks
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Mana shield changes
Improvements in quality of life
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Added a DLC carousel to the title screen, allowing multiple available DLCs to auto-rotate.
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Added the ability to mark items as favorites, preventing them from being accidentally sold or dropped.
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Added a horizontal scrollbar to the upgrade interface to better indicate additional options available (eg Transmogrification).
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Optimized the appearance and disappearance of the player's HUD.
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Added distinctive map markers for unlocked Sarras shrines.
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Hidden redundant skill points for players who have fully unlocked skill trees.
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(Consoles) Added 40 FPS mode support.
Bug fixes
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(PlayStation) The save failed issue should be fixed.
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(PC) Added loading indicator when game is syncing cloud files. Previously, the game would not respond until it quit
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Many quest fixes, including addressing incorrect loot, audio issues, random failures, quest progression, and more.
- Released
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May 23, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language, Use of Drugs
- Developer
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Questline
- Publisher
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Awakened Realms
