Mount & Blade: Warband
BANGER · RPG · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 74.3h
- Value
- $0.27/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card with 64MB RAM, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
February 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 84 in the 14 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.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord ($49.99, scores 75) and Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword ($9.99, scores 77) both come in lower.
78 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 564 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 3,514 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
74.3 hours to finish it, 226 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
16 years after release it still had 3.1K people in it at once.
The drop-off
52% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3,055 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
peak. infinite replay value, fun mods, simple but fun combat and you can take over the world. game has aged like fine wine.
If I were sentenced to solitary confinement for 8 years for all the sins I carry upon my soul, I would request that I can play this game in my widdle pwison cell
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.
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Mount & Blade: Warband scores 97/100 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/48700/mount-blade-warbandThe 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 10, price as of Sep 24.
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