The Banner Saga

3.3
9.86K reviews
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Content rating
PEGI 16
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About this game

Embark on your own epic journey in Banner Saga, the critically acclaimed tactical RPG where your strategic choices directly affect your personal story and the world around you.

Leave your home and strike out on a desperate journey to save your people. Lead your caravan across stunning environments and into war with enemy clans and vicious Drudge soldiers. Build relationships and make choices that will shape the future of your clan as you scramble to survive in this beautiful, bleak world.

Banner Saga Features:

- A unique fantasy realm inspired by Norse mythology – explore a grim world shaped by the legends of the Vikings. Uncover ancient lore and battle tooth and nail to carve out a new bastion in a world abandoned by the gods.

- Beautiful 2D rotoscope animation - immerse yourself in beautifully hand drawn combat sequences and animations, accompanied by an evocative score from Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory.

- Real choices with real consequences – every decision you make on the trail, in conversation and during combat has a meaningful effect on the outcome as your unique story unfolds.

- Over 25 playable characters with unique personalities – form relationships in and out of combat with a variety of characters from 7 different classes, each with unique abilities and upgrade options to fit your play style.

- Strategic combat with permanent repercussions – choose your warriors, form your strategy and strike. Adapt to a dynamic battlefield where your tactics determine who lives and who dies. Victory, defeat and even the permanent loss of a character depends on the choices you make.

- Winner of the Geekie Award for best Indie Video Game, 2014, Independent Games Festival Finalist for Excellence in Visual Art and Honorable mentions for Design and Audio.

Only your choices can guide your caravan through the harsh winter, past mystical enemies and brutal Viking clans. When the trail is uncertain, can you take the lead?

Download Banner Saga and begin your journey today.
Updated on
Feb 8, 2017

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Ratings and reviews

3.4
7.86K reviews
A Google user
May 21, 2019
Love the game. Combat, storywriting, mechanics, art, sound, it's perfect. The Android app is not so perfect. Loading times up to 2 minutes. Graphic glitches when app goes to background. Dragging on the roster is difficult. And I didnt get a hard difficulty achievement after completing the game on hard difficulty. That was a bummer. Worth 10 euro? Yes, if you don't mind being patient.
28 people found this review helpful
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Stoic
May 21, 2019
Thank you for your review and feedback. We have a custom settings app which may help with the loading; please email us at [email protected] so we can assist you directly. Thank you.
A Google user
March 23, 2019
I didn't think the developer would still read these, so I deleted my old one just to write a new one. I'm a big fan of Xcom, although find it overwhelming at times and therefore give up. Banner Saga is the same kind of format but; simple, easy to use, the art work is just awesome and I feel involved in the game with the choices I make. I can't wait to buy the 2nd one and it's one of the few mobile games that I feel my money was well spent and not just an impulse buy.
37 people found this review helpful
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Stoic
March 20, 2019
Wow, we really appreciate this, Andy. We love reviews like yours that give a balanced and fair assessment of the game. All the best to you! 💯
A Google user
November 7, 2018
Just a really well-done port. I haven't played the PC version, but this game is really fun. Only four stars because filesize (game is huge) and load times. Clicking through menus (which is more than half the game) shouldn't require 10-20 seconds between screens. The only time I really hate it is in camp. When I go to look at my heroes roster, I hit a loading screen. I mean I get that "beautiful, hand-drawn art!" And it IS beautiful. But maybe not so much of it is necessary in the menues? Or maybe that's not even the problem.
13 people found this review helpful
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Stoic
November 7, 2018
Thank you for this review, @Andrew, we're so pleased you enjoyed the game. We also appreciate the feedback and always strive to improve the game for our players. 💯

What’s new

• Game balance updates
• Fixes missing audio when installed on SD card
• Fix crashes on a few specific devices
• Improvements to asset downloading