The Banner Saga 2
Fair · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11.3h
- Value
- $2.21/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
July 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 63 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. 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 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos ($34.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats The Banner Saga ($24.99, scores 63).
82 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 463 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 124 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
11.3 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
At 11.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
68% start to 33% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
16 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
Epic sequel to the Banner Saga, more of the same from the previous game, carrying over your progress.
Ein Spiel, dass seine Soundprobleme nicht im Griff hat und trotzdem einen 3ten Teil rausbringt. Ich weiß nicht so recht was ich dazu sagen soll. Ich fand den ersten Teil gut und hatte meinen Spaß damit. Mit diesem Spiel habe ich mich sehr schwer getan und mehrfach weglegen müssen, weil ich bei weitem nicht so eine Freude hatte wie beim Vorgänger. Den dritten Teil werde ich gar nicht erst anfassen. Generell habe ich...
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The Banner Saga 2 scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/281640/the-banner-saga-2The 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 Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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