The Banner Saga: Factions (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Banner Saga: Factions

The Banner Saga: Factions is the premiere multiplayer role-playing strategy game on PC and Mac. It brings the feeling of beloved tactical games to a high-definition era with gorgeous hand-animated artwork and…

59 25 February 2013

What The Banner Saga: Factions is

The Banner Saga: Factions is an indie game developed by Stoic and released in 2013. It was published by Versus Evil. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on The Banner Saga Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Banner Saga: Factions is the premiere multiplayer role-playing strategy game on PC and Mac. It brings the feeling of beloved tactical games to a high-definition era with gorgeous hand-animated artwork and a degree of depth unprecedented in the realm of free games. Fight, learn, and lead your clan of vikings to glory. The Banner Saga: Fractions is free-to-play.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

The Banner Saga: Factions holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Banner Saga: Factions launched on 25 February 2013, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Mass Effect 3: Citadel. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Mass Effect 3: Citadel.

Official trailer