About the Game
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization. Every decision you make in travel, conversation and combat has a meaningful effect on the outcome as your story unfolds. Not everyone will survive, but they will be remembered.
The Banner Saga is the first part of a planned trilogy. If you complete this game, your unique progress and storyline will carry over to the next part of the story.
Key Features
- Player choice that drives your own narrative – every decision you make in travel, conversation and combat has a meaningful effect on the outcome as your story unfolds.
- Over 25 playable characters from 2 different races, human and varl, the horned giants – embark on your epic journey with a variety of characters from 7 different classes, each with unique abilities and upgrade options to fit your play style.
- Strategic combat with consequences - victory or defeat and even the permanent loss of a character depends on which characters you choose to take into battle and what decisions you make afterwards.
- The journey is as important as battle – your role in building and managing your caravan as you travel the vast frozen landscape is critical to not only your own survival but the survival of an entire civilization.
- An epic Viking saga brought to life in 2D glory – beautifully hand drawn combat sequences and animations, accompanied by an evocative score from Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory, will immerse you into a fantasy realm inspired by Norse mythology.
- Multiplayer Combat Enhanced – sharpen your combat skills in the free multiplayer game “Factions”. Compete against other players with many of the character classes you see in The Banner Saga.
The Banner Saga is the first part of a planned trilogy. If you complete this game, your unique progress and storyline will carry over to the next part of the story.
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Official update history
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Chinese language support in Banner Saga is released today - you asked and we listened!
Build number - 2.49.02
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Chinese language support in Banner Saga is released today - you asked and we listened!
Build number - 2.49.02
- Map: Added tooltip translations for map locations. By default, a tooltip follows the mouse, or you can hit the TAB key to toggle them all off and on.
- Hotkeys: Add control/alt arrow keys for cycling through allies, and shift arrow keys for cycling through enemies
- Hotkeys: Add cycling of abilities with the '2' hotkey
- Battle: Items won in battle now show up in the Battle Resolution red banner screen
- Battle: Units Injured in battle are now summarized on the Battle Resolution red banner screen
- Performance: Optimization of AI think time
- Misc: Fix issue when using Impale and with Knockback items
- Misc: Fix Silver Arrow appears to be inactive when Willpower is depleted (Boersgard)
- Misc: Fix "Fight on Bridge" hitbox button offset from the illuminated area (Einartoft)
- Localization: Fix some assorted translation errors in RU, ES, PT, PL
Build number - 2.48.04
We're pleased to present the official Česky (Czech) translation of Banner Saga! We'd like to thank Martin Jurtík for providing the translation.
中文 (Chinese) translation is almost finished and will be released soon!
We've added a few hotkey enhancements to combat.
You can cycle through battle units with the left and right arrow keys, but now you can cycle through just your allies by also holding down Control key, and you can cycle through just your enemies by also holding down Shift key.
Furthermore, we've enhanced the Ability hotkey, the 2 key, with the capability to select between multiple abilities, and to confirm the ability.
As a refresher, here are the primary action hotkeys in battle:
- 1: Move
- 2: Ability
- 3: Attack
- 4: End Turn / Rest
- 0: Use Horn
Also in this build we've fixed a variety of mostly minor issues to further polish and improve your experience. Please see the build notes below for more details:
- Fix - Severe morale drop when reaching vicinity of Grofheim
- Fix - Resting without supplies does not decrease morale
- Fix - War Bonus item is obtained even when the party is defeated in the battle
- Fix - Gamepad Controller issue causing spontaneous save game reloading on certain button presses
- Fix - Text issue with Fasolt's Saga 1 and 2 descriptions being swapped
- Fix - Issue causing part of Eyvind's hair to sometimes disappear. We’re sure he’ll be much happier now.
- Fix - Backbiter Champion displaying Dagr's appearance
- Fix - Battle Promotion banner is not displayed in Korean
- Fix - Alette's appearance is not displayed during some battles
- Fix - Caravan banner misaligned with caravan in some scenes
If you have any issues or bugs to report or need assistance, please let us know at [email protected] and we’ll do our best to help! Thank you.
Banner Saga 1 now supports the Korean language.
We'd like to thank Pgini for making this happen.
Other changes in build 2.38.11:
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We'd like to thank Pgini for making this happen.
Other changes in build 2.38.11:
- Updates and improvements to Russian translation
- Fix issue with News Ticker hotkey (ps4 square, xb1 X) being active after start page is gone
- Fix Unable to scroll using a gamepad when loading save files
- Fix Towns and Camps - Resting without supplies does not decrease morale
- Fix Iver - Missing special ability animation when used on Bellower
- Fix Guts ability description does not appear to be localized
- Fix Main menu buttons remain interactive while Heraldry Menu is open
Updated to 2.36.15
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- Support UHD resolutions by scaling up to fill screen
- Fix issue in Ludin/Vedrfell tutorial getting stuck if ludin has been upgraded
- Fix issue preventing class achievements from unlocking
- Fix typos reported by YaK
- Fix issue causing some resume saves to get stuck when loading
- Fix Backbiter Veteran enemy incorrectly using Dagr's appearance
- Fix issue with Nid having a negative amount of stat points to spend
- Fix Number of Varl in caravan does not increase despite varl choosing to join Iver when leaving Einartoft... now adds 23 varl to caravan
- Fix Ubin's caravan does not add fighters or varl to your caravan when joining... now adds 15 fighters, 5 varl, and 40 supplies (rather than 30 supplies)
- Fix Unable to scroll using a gamepad when loading save files
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We've rebalanced the final chapter of the game. The final Bellower battle has been tuned to be more fair on Normal difficulty settings, and there are more opportunities for obtaining supplies and items in Chapter 6.
Banner Saga 1 has been updated to the latest version of the engine technology, and quite a bit of cleanup has happened under the hood. A few of the improvements seen in Banner Saga 2 have been incorporated into this build.
Please join our community to discuss these changes and other topics on our Official Stoic Forums.
We'd like to give a special thanks to all the Beta testers that helped us prepare this update, in particular our MVPs:
1. Bellower Final Battle
...has been tuned down for normal and easy difficulty. HARD Difficulty mode remains just as challenging as before!
Bellower's ARM/STR regen during the first battles was +6/+6 per turn
It is now:
Bellower's ARM/STR regen during the second battle is still +1/+1 for all difficulties.
2. Chapter 6 Supplies
...towns in the final world travel have more supplies and items for sale:
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We've rebalanced the final chapter of the game. The final Bellower battle has been tuned to be more fair on Normal difficulty settings, and there are more opportunities for obtaining supplies and items in Chapter 6.
Banner Saga 1 has been updated to the latest version of the engine technology, and quite a bit of cleanup has happened under the hood. A few of the improvements seen in Banner Saga 2 have been incorporated into this build.
Please join our community to discuss these changes and other topics on our Official Stoic Forums.
THANKS!
We'd like to give a special thanks to all the Beta testers that helped us prepare this update, in particular our MVPs:
- http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/aa/aa74277d930d3ec5552a597236819a72a32b6625.jpg Aleonymous
- http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/18/1823fd686b347a0bbf54b7bf941dc1d68df2d236.jpg Giopeppe
- http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/17/17c11fb0673a9f8f0062303f13280fb165253a1b.jpg Iuliana
- http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/5396743/a6b40dd7f1ee93a193d329b3d71ff37155c84d21.png Ratatoskr
Changes in this build (2.36.02):
- Final Bellower battle tuned to be less difficult (see below)
- Chapter 6 supply opportunities increased (see below)
- Upgrade '+' sign shows up on hero icons in heroes tent when appropriate
- Extended tooltips in battle
- on stat banner, buffs, and items.
- on hazards such as slag-and-burn, coals, etc...
- on stat banner, buffs, and items.
- Match Resolution:
- Consequences tab shows injured units
- Achievements tab shows new achievements
- Items tab shows newly acquired items
- Consequences tab shows injured units
- News Ticker on Start Screen
- Injured units to not heal during travel, only when Resting in camp/village
- Injured units' str penalty now equals the number of days of injury remaining
- Nid now starts at rank 2 when she joins the caravan
- Increased loot drop chance for winning the second wave of a battles.
- Varl that join the caravan after the Godstone in chapter 3 now have supplies.
A FEW MAJOR CHANGES:
1. Bellower Final Battle
...has been tuned down for normal and easy difficulty. HARD Difficulty mode remains just as challenging as before!
Bellower's ARM/STR regen during the first battles was +6/+6 per turn
It is now:
- Easy: +0/+1 ARM/STR
- Normal: +1/+3 ARM/STR
- Hard: +6/+6 ARM/STR (same as before)
Bellower's ARM/STR regen during the second battle is still +1/+1 for all difficulties.
2. Chapter 6 Supplies
...towns in the final world travel have more supplies and items for sale:
- Haukstorp, the first village after Einartoft which was ransacked by dredge (now 50 supplies at 10/renown, and 3 items)
- The first village past Sigrholm (now has 145 supplies, up from 98), and between 3-5 items.
Added Japanese Language Support.
日本語対応が追加されました。
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日本語対応が追加されました。
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Last Steam update Apr 25, 2022 — check SteamDB
Current Release
Build 3268685
Uploaded Nov 01, 2026
System Requirements
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CPU
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RAM
2 GB RAM
GPU
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How to Install
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2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run the game executable (.exe) to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
CRC32
E548278B
SHA-256
e83c38622941bcb322596d12f4c369ce481e939ddf1ec5caa546c402d24ea7ca
How: Right-click the downloaded file → 7-Zip / WinRAR → CRC SHA → compare with the values above.
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