Gasification is considered to be a promising way to use biomass with high efficiency in combined heatand power production, for the production of second generation biofuels and in the chemical industry.Especially allothermal fluidized bed steam gasification produces a medium calorific, nitrogen free gassuitable for a variety of downstream processes. In general the raw product gas has to be cleaned fromcondensable hydrocarbons (tar) and conditioned (e.g. adjustment of the H2/CO-ratio) before downstreamuse. The operating conditions of the gasification reactor have a large impact on the quality of the productgas. Hence first steps to a product gas low in tar content can be undertaken directly in the reactor. In thisstudy the capability of influencing the tar content and gas composition by changing temperature (750?840 C), steam to biomass (S/B) ratio (0.8?1.2) and pressure (0.1?0.25 MPa) in an allothermal bubblingfluidized bed steam gasifier is investigated. It is found that rising temperature reduces the total tar contentand affects especially heterocyclic and light aromatic compounds. At atmospheric pressure the naphthalenecontent increases slightly with increasing temperature in contrary to pressurized gasificationwhere naphthalene decreases significantly with increasing temperature. An increase in the S/B ratio leadsto a decreasing total tar content, this tar reduction according to a higher steam content is higher at highertemperatures. Increasing pressure leads to increasing total tar content mainly due to naphthalene, theeffect is most distinct for low S/B ratios.