Warbanners
Skip · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $1.33/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 615 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Warbanners: the turn-based, tactical strategy game with role-playing elements that lets you manage a squad of mercenaries, and survive 42 campaign missions. Your goal? To earn a place among ancient legends!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 512 Mb, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
77 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Lost Eidolons ($34.99, scores 22).
More about Warbanners
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 15-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 242 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to 10% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 28, 17:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Kind of impossible to recommend for $20 when Wesnoth is free, but there is a kind of janky tabletop skirmish game charm here. All of the rules are pretty simple but there's enough of them that the game simulates lots of little things. Lighting can matter. Movement type can matter. Consumables are important. Every creature on the board feels like it could be represented with a pewter model and has some juicy keywords...
2 more reviews
Warbanners is a tactical fantasy RPG that focuses heavily on difficult turn-based combat, mercenary management, and careful long-term planning. It clearly draws inspiration from older strategy games that prioritized challenging battles and meaningful resource management over cinematic storytelling or modern accessibility. Instead of overwhelming players with flashy presentation, the game concentrates almost entirely...
Overall a good game of the genre, but there are few problems: potion spam on both sides, magic completely dominates battlefield economics as the losses you would take are never compensated to mission payout so you need to take every advantage and cheese mechanics, some missions are setup for your failure and you have to replay them for better results. Passable merc story. Good semi-linear...
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Cite this score
Warbanners scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/650440/warbannersReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.