The Banner Saga

3.9
9.85K reviews
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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 ā€“ 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 ā€“ 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 ā€“ 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 ā€“ 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 7, 2017

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Ratings and reviews

3.9
7.84K reviews
A Google user
September 18, 2019
Best Phone RPG ever... Only 10 hours in but worth every penny. Beautiful lore, art, and music. No ads or in-app purchases. A throwback to when RPGs were more of a "choose your own adventure novel" with clear points where you make important choices as opposed to the modern go-anywhere sandbox. But the decisions are interesting, difficult, and meaningful in lots of ways. Easy to play for half hour intervals.
40 people found this review helpful
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Stoic
September 18, 2019
Hi Thomas, thank you for your review. We are happy you are enjoying the game. šŸ‘
Fatima A.
May 27, 2020
The storyline is immersive and although the battle system appears a bit complicated at first, it is easy enough to pick up and master. But despite that, I can't give this any more than 3 stars - first, because the story ends too quickly and second, because for a paid product still available for sale it seems this is only minimally maintained especially for newer devices. I experienced a crash at first launch and I'm currently unable to play the game because of an infinite loading screen.
33 people found this review helpful
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Stoic
July 14, 2020
Hello Fatima, thank you for writing this review of the game. If you would like to try a custom settings app to see if that helps, please email support@stoicstudio.com so we can assist you. Thanks so much.
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 support@stoicstudio.com so we can assist you directly. Thank you.

What's new

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