The Banner Saga

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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.

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Developer:
Stoic
Publisher:
Versus Evil
Release date:
14 January 2014
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (19)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (7748)

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Description

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. Every decision you make in travel, conversation and combat has a meaningful effect on the outcome as your story unfolds. Not everyone will survive, but they will be remembered.

Key Features

  • Player choice that drives your own narrative – every decision you make in travel, conversation and combat has a meaningful effect on the outcome as your story unfolds.
  • Over 25 playable characters from 2 different races, human and varl, the horned giants – embark on your epic journey with a variety of characters from 7 different classes, each with unique abilities and upgrade options to fit your play style.
  • Strategic combat with consequences - victory or defeat and even the permanent loss of a character depends on which characters you choose to take into battle and what decisions you make afterwards.
  • The journey is as important as battle – your role in building and managing your caravan as you travel the vast frozen landscape is critical to not only your own survival but the survival of an entire civilization.
  • An epic Viking saga brought to life in 2D glory – beautifully hand drawn combat sequences and animations, accompanied by an evocative score from Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory, will immerse you into a fantasy realm inspired by Norse mythology.
  • Multiplayer Combat Enhanced – sharpen your combat skills in the free multiplayer game “Factions”. Compete against other players with many of the character classes you see in The Banner Saga.

The Banner Saga is the first part of a planned trilogy. If you complete this game, your unique progress and storyline will carry over to the next part of the story.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows 7 SP1
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Storage:
4 GB available space

recommended*

OS:
Windows 10
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Storage:
6 GB available space

User reviews

thehamtaker
Recommended | 22 May 2026
13.3h played

cool game. the art and music are wonderful. i got a bit lot in the story- lots of names and locations thrown at you, so i found it hard to remember who was related to who, etc. but i enjoyed it. not too long, cool

Helpful: 0
Gilmaru
Recommended | 25 Mar 2026
50.7h played

A Piece of Art This game is a little piece of art that doesn't get old. It's like playing a graphic novel with a stunning art style that remains visually impeccable after all these years, interesting Norse-inspired

Helpful: 3
Here4Corgis
Not recommended | 24 May 2026
17.3h played

The most perversely designed action economy in any tactical game I've played. Killing enemies is actively bad for you. I'm not exaggerating. Turns strictly alternate between sides regardless of unit count. 10 vs 2? Each

Helpful: 2
Greere
Recommended | 18 May 2026
25.9h played

This is a review for the entire Banner Saga series. The Banner Saga is an incredible series. Unlike many choice-driven games, the decisions you make actually carry weight. Small, seemingly meaningless choices can lead

Helpful: 2
punkt
Recommended | 12 Mar 2026
133h played

I really like this game. Love the turn based tactical fighting and the tight gameplay with fights / currency / supplies. Good story, too. You feel the scarceness of every resource available at every corner. Can

Helpful: 0
Potato PC
Recommended | 12 Mar 2026
7.7h played

Story It's one of few games where you're faced with tough choices where 'good' or 'correct' usually isn't obvious, and feel truly meaningful. However, I didn't enjoy it as much as I initially hoped since there are so

Helpful: 4