Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$49.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$24.9950% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.86/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 300,542
- Critics
- 77 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $24.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 58.2h
- To 100%
- 192.9h 3.3x the story
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 40 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $19.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 13,711 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
55% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
40 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword ($9.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Sons of Valhalla ($19.99, scores 16).
More about Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
77 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 7,353 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 58.2 hours. Doing everything runs 193, 3.3 times as long.
300,542 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It is one of the best open world games on steam. You can play it as an action RPG. But I play it as a strategy game by using 100% autoresolve without any real combat. It has fighting, raiding, sieging castles and towns, smithing weapons, trading, party formation, companion recruitment, quests, marriage, kingdom creation, world conquer and so on. It can be very cozy if you choose not to do real combats. It has...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Bannerlord is the kind of game where I can lose an entire evening without realizing how much time has passed. I've played a lot of campaigns in Bannerlord, and every one of them somehow ends up becoming its own little story. Sometimes I'm focused on building an economy and trading between cities, sometimes I'm leading an army across half the map, and sometimes I'm just looking for the next battle because I want to...
A massive let down compared to the original & warband. Broken, bare bone features, features they hyped up they just quietly never released or talked about again. Triple the price of what I paid for Warband and triple the disappointment. Modding scene is virtually non-existant and the mods that do exist require a 10 minute tutorial on how to install then it's up to random chance if it will actually work or just not...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Intel UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/261550/mount-blade-ii-bannerlordReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.