The Banner Saga
The Banner Saga is a Viking-themed tactical role-playing video game.
The Banner Saga is an indie developed by Stoic, released 14 January 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. The main story takes about 11.1 hrs to finish.
What The Banner Saga is
The Banner Saga is an indie game developed by Stoic and released in 2014. It was published by Versus Evil. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Adobe AIR.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The core of the game is a single-player campaign of turn-based combat engagements inspired by games such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Shining Force, with the player controlling and being able to build up a party of characters with complementing abilities. According to the developers, their aim was to create a "mature game for adults in the vein of Game of Thrones or The Black Company". They intend to engage players emotionally by allowing them to build relationships with the game's characters and shape the outcome of the story through an array of conversation choices.[8] The game eschews certain conventions of action-oriented computer role-playing games such as the focus on a young lone…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 39 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Banner Saga holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 292 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11.1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Banner Saga launched on 14 January 2014, within three weeks of FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Banner Saga yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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