The Banner Saga

Stoic

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.

Ratings and reviews

This is one of the best games available on the Play store. It is an old-school style game in that there are no IAP. It is a story driven, strategic, well-illustrated game that comes with a great musical accompaniment. I would describe the gameplay as Oregon trail meets Shakespeare meets chess, except that you don't start with predetermined pieces - you build your own pieces and can maximize how they interact. My only issue is that the other 2 parts of this trilogy aren't up for sale on mobile.

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.

The game looks OK, but it has a lot of options with essentially no help files or user guide. I know my characters have special abilities that they can spend "willpower" to utilize, but nothing will tell me how to use them. UPDATE After playing for quite a while the rules and options became clearer and the game became enjoyable, even addictive.

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