Mount & Blade: Warband

Mount & Blade: Warband

BANGER · RPG · 2010

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9975% offBANGER

Cost per hourS
$0.27/hr
ReviewsS
98% of 172,624
Critics
78 players 20 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
73.9h
To 100%
228.4h 3.1x the story
Achievements
80

Price and sales

Sales
85 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$1.99 February 2024
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now $16.88 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.29 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2,033 now
Recent reviews
95% 30 days
Cheaper than
10% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

52% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

Across all 85 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score 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.

More about Mount & Blade: Warband

78 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 3,526 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

73.9 hours to finish it, 228 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.

172,624 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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.27/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
For context
Refunds10 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

This is one of the best games I've ever played; that bald character reminds me of my bald friend.
Knight LineeRecommendedafter 8.4h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
This game is so much fun. I can play it for hours and hours even without mods. I got all the trophies so I figured I would post a review.
crabbman5Recommendedafter 628h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This game taught me that I have zero logical thinking and an IQ so low, it transcends the boundaries of stupidity.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 4.9hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card with 64MB RAM, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Mount & Blade: Warband scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/48700/mount-blade-warband
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Reviews 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 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+20
Critics78
Players98
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 172,624 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTaleWorlds Entertainment
PublisherTaleWorlds Entertainment
GenreRPG
Released2010
Players7.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements80