The Banner Saga Reviews

Beautiful and captivating game.

Genre defying epic. Incredible music.

Excellent in all senses, wished that the extra content for support would be avalaible for the players who didnt know about this before

I've finish this game twice and it's so astonishing the way it develops. The music is great and the drawings are amazing. It seems that all of it was handmade which is a plus.

Beautifully illustrated artwork supports a viking themed epic with heartfelt drama and turn based combat. I took me 22 hours to finish and I'm very happy to have played it.

It's a pretty good game. The combat is simple and fun. You can do the whole in two go-s, takes about 10 hours. Cool world and story is okay: the writing is not the best, but it is enough to keep you playing. I enjoyed it.

game is amazing, fun combat, awesome story, almost like a fantasy Xcom meets oregon trail, excellent game, play all 3 parts.

I don't often go back and review games (especially big budget games), but this game is one of my favorites and is definitely a hidden gem. Amazing story, great atmosphere, out of this world music (I have it on Spotify), epic finale to the first game, great art style. If you see the bundle on sale, buy it and push it the top of your play list.

Whether it is a story-book or a game is up for debate, however what is not is that this is an innovative and enjoyable saga. Choices matter and the story is engaging and different. The entire saga is one i wish i could find the time to play again; if only i could stop buying games.

The game mechanics are great. The lore of the game is cool, but the storytelling is terrible and hurt the fun aspects of the game. It's also very unclear how you're supposed to interpret certain parts of the story. There are parts where I'm following the dialogue and just don't get what's happening. I also found that the leveling up mechanic worked very poorly, because the level up resource, Renown, is the same thing you use to buy items and rations. This creates a situation where your team strength is hampered because you have to buy rations to keep the party fed and morale high. The game is also very unclear about how stats work. For example, I looked around in game but couldn't find anywhere to explain how dodge percentage is calculated. This results in having no idea how strong or weak certain items are. Very frustrating experience, wouldn't recommend anyone play this game but it has potential if they can sort out these issues.