The 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.
Full release
Jan 14, 2014
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About This Game
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.
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Developer and publisher
- Developer:
- Stoic
- Publisher:
- Stoic Studio
Quick facts
- Release
- Jan 14, 2014: Windows, Mac, Linux
- Last updated
- May 19, 2026
- Storefronts
- Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam
- Genres
- Indie, RPG, Strategy, and Survival
- Tags
- Choices Matter, Combat, Fantasy, and Hand-drawn
- Moods
- Story-rich and Tactical
- Social styles
- Solo
- Demo
- Not announced
- Price model
- Purchase
Languages
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | |||
| Czech | |||
| English | |||
| French | |||
| German |
Age Rating & Interactive Elements
ESRB t
Content descriptors
Alcohol Reference, Blood and Gore, Mild Language, Violence
Support
Controller & Support
Controller support
Full controller support
Device support
Steam Achievements
Steam Trading Cards
Steam Cloud
Remote Play on Tablet
Remote Play on TV
Family Sharing
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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
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GameHubber interest
Not enough ratings yet
Developer and publisher
- Developer:
- Stoic
- Publisher:
- Stoic Studio
Quick facts
- Release
- Jan 14, 2014: Windows, Mac, Linux
- Last updated
- May 19, 2026
- Storefronts
- Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam
- Genres
- Indie, RPG, Strategy, and Survival
- Tags
- Choices Matter, Combat, Fantasy, and Hand-drawn
- Moods
- Story-rich and Tactical
- Social styles
- Solo
- Demo
- Not announced
- Price model
- Purchase
Languages
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | |||
| Czech | |||
| English | |||
| French | |||
| German |
Age Rating & Interactive Elements
ESRB t
Content descriptors
Alcohol Reference, Blood and Gore, Mild Language, Violence
Support
Controller & Support
Controller support
Full controller support
Device support
Steam Achievements
Steam Trading Cards
Steam Cloud
Remote Play on Tablet
Remote Play on TV
Family Sharing
Reviews
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"Players are rating this around 83 on IGDB."
IGDB
278 ratings
OpenCritic
83
IGDB aggregate snapshot for The Banner Saga.
278
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