Mount & Blade
BANGER · RPG · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 42.2h
- Value
- $0.24/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Graphics card with at least 64 MB memory, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 83 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mount & Blade: Warband ($19.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword ($9.99, scores 77).
The math says it holds its tier up to $34.79, and you are being asked for $9.99.
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 20 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 482 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 792 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
42.2 hours to finish it, 103 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
Players
51 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
تجاوز السرعة المحددة باكثر من 50 كلم/ س - رصد آلي رقم: على سجل رقم: هذا كله للزنوه ولاه 26-03-1441 الزنوه سولد الزنوه أنا ح ق ل 2770 وس لي؟؟ بقيمة*1500 ريال تم قيد مخالفة: تجاوز السرعة المحددة باكثر من 30 الى 40 كلم/س - رصد آلي رقم: على سجل رقم:
Unplayable, crashes in battles all the time. If it doesn't crash in battle, it gives random errors and closes down in map. Don't bother. No reason to play this. Just get Warband.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Mount & Blade scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22100/mount-bladeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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