Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

Worth it · RPG · 2011

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it 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

$9.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$2.4975% offWorth it

Cost per hourS
$0.40/hr
Reviews▼
88% of 14,093
Critics
68 players 20 higher
Genre rank
Top 3% RPG

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
25.1h
To 100%
125.5h 5.0x the story
Achievements
21

Price and sales

Sales
85 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$1.49 December 2015
Sale every
46d last October 2026
All-time low $0.59 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
51 now
Cheaper than
38% of its genre
Better reviewed
91% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

29% start to 1% 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

It has been discounted 85 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 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).

More about Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

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 October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,071 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 1,112 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.

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$0.40/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Replayability~126h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 25h main story
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds7 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

A fun game, however they shut down authentication servers, making it so you can only play in trial mode(upon hitting level 7 it boots you out). neither automatic nor manual authentication functions, which is annoying since I do enjoy the game. Considering the devs are busy with bannerlord i doubt they will ever get around to solving the issue. if it did get fixed i would move this back to being a recommendation...
TrueChickenlordRecommendedafter 105h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1.2 GB of memory, 128 MB+, 901 MB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword scores 77/100 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/48720/mount-blade-with-fire-sword
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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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+20
Critics68
Players88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 14,093 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTaleWorlds Entertainment
PublisherTaleWorlds Entertainment
GenreRPG
Released2011
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21