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Banner Saga

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. An epic Viking saga brought to life in 2D glory – beautifully hand drawn combat sequences and animations, accompanied by an ev

Release date
February 5, 2014
Platforms
Windows, macOS
Developer
Stoic
Publisher
Stoic
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★ 8.2/10GOG · 701 ratings
GOGLast checked October 31, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 4 / 5
I bought this game because the term "Saga" at the end made me instantly think it was another classic "match candies" puzzle game from the…
★ 4 / 5
As one of the Kickstarter backers, I am proud to say Stoic have delivered what they promised, and have created a truly original and worthwhile…
★ 2 / 5
The visuals, animations and sound are all well done. The story is serviceable but poorly written and forgettable. The choices in the game are mostly…
★ 5 / 5
For the duration of its 12 hours, I was completely drawn into "The Banner Saga". I didn't expect this to happen during the first 20…
★ 2 / 5
At first I thought this was really good. I mean, it has amazing artwork, an interesting world, interesting characters, and a combat system which somewhat…
★ 5 / 5
There's a lot of negative or middling reviews here. While I normally dismiss those, these are well written and worth reading. You should read some…
★ 2 / 5
The Good : Nice Art direction, great soundtrack, calculatory chess-like gameplay The Bad : Rules are VERY counter-intuitive : the player and the AI each…
★ 3 / 5
I backed this in an instant I saw it. I didn't have big expectations so I wasn't disappointed much. Visuals are amazing, so are music…

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★ 3 / 5
Story didn't really grab me. More battles could've had terrain options. More varied enemy types. Mechanics were alright. Didn't feel much consequences in response to…
★ 3 / 5
This game is mostly eye candy and I'm sort of disappointed it is as popular as it is. I had this game for a while…
★ 5 / 5
This is definitely a game for people who enjoy good storytelling and grid-based strategy. I have played 1 hour so far and enjoyed it thoroughly.…
★ 5 / 5
The Banner Saga features a captivating story that changes according to your choices, wonderful graphics, an operatic soundtrack, and a completely original tactical RPG system.…
★ 5 / 5
Had a good time. The resource management and turn based combat are good but the story is the star and what a well written heartfelt…
★ 4 / 5
Turn based part is good with the managing of armor and health. Story feels ok with the bigger payofffs coming in next chapter. Choices feels…

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