Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
Worth it · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 25.1h
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1.2 GB of memory, 128 MB+, 901 MB of storage. Windows only.
The standalone expansion for Mount & Blade! With Fire & Sword builds and expands upon the highly regarded combat system from Mount & Blade: Warband. Firearms have been introduced to the battlefield.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in December 2015. It has been discounted 84 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mount & Blade: Warband ($19.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord ($49.99, scores 75).
68 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,538 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 1,110 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 25.1 hours. Doing everything runs 126, 5.0 times as long.
The drop-off
29% start to 1% 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
99 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
Don't buy. The Key-Authentication server and website both are down and the game tells you don't own the game you have paid for! For months, no update, patch, news and announcement from the developers either. Such disrespect toward the owners. Guess negative review is the only language game companies understand these days ...
The authentication servers no longer work. It is impossible to use the provided CD key to activate my game on a new installation. So beyond angry.
Used to be a decent game, came back to it and give it another shot but the "Activation Servers are down" so there is no point in buying this. Very sad!
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: With Fire & Sword scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/48720/mount-blade-with-fire-swordThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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