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.

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Jan 14, 2014

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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

Languages
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
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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