The Banner Saga on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

The Banner Saga is a rpg, turn-based and strategy game developed by Stoic and published by Stoic Studio.
Released on January 14th 2014 is available on Windows and MacOS in 12 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Czech and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 15,484 reviews of which 13,777 were positive and 1,707 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 SP1
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: MAC OSX 10.7.5
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

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March 2025
Interest game, little exposition and it is easy to lose named characters while the battle management is good. The main flaw, how f@**!!! long it takes for some of the cut scenes and movement in battles. I would be tempted to replay but I feel like I've sat here for several hours just waiting for the cut scenes to play of a static screen and a long train of men marching...
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Nov. 2024
One of the best indie strategy games I've ever played. Insanely good world building and character writing. Game is harsh but making mistakes and learning to go with those mistakes is such a good part of the game. Kick started this game years ago and never regretted it
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Oct. 2024
Just finished The Banner Saga Part 1. Gorgeous game. Incredible story. Choice and consequence at its peak. One of the best video games I have ever played. Absolutely broke my heart and I think I’m done playing video games for the rest of my life as a direct result. If you enjoy emotional turmoil you will love this game. Recommend.
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Sept. 2024
The game is nice, not great, but nice. This is a game you'll play for the story (which is good), not for the game play (which is ok).
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July 2024
The Banner Saga 1 is the start of the Banner trilogy, and if you don't find any enjoyment out of it, it's not worth playing the rest of them. But I personally quite enjoyed the game. It's a very tactical game but has an overarching, greatly done story combined with music that really feels like they've gone in-depth for the lore building of the world, as everything just feels like it could be real, which is the best-case scenario for any fantasy-based story. The story starts off a little slow in the first game, but if you enjoy the gameplay, that's a small obstacle. This game is definitely worth trekking through to get further in the series.
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The Banner Saga
8.7
13,777
1,707
Online players
27
Developer
Stoic
Publisher
Stoic Studio
Release 14 Jan 2014
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