The Banner Saga

Overview:

Experience an epic Viking saga where your strategic choices shape your journey and directly impact the fate of your caravan and civilization. Lead a diverse cast of characters across a stunning yet harsh landscape, making allies and facing new threats along the way. Every decision you make in travel, conversation, and combat carries weight and contributes to the unfolding narrative.

Key Features:

1. Player-Driven Narrative: Your choices in travel, conversation, and combat drive the narrative, shaping the outcome of your story. Every decision you make has meaningful consequences, affecting both your personal journey and the fate of the world around you.

2. Diverse Characters: Choose from over 25 playable characters from two different races: humans and varl (horned giants). Embark on your epic journey with characters from seven different classes, each offering unique abilities and upgrade options to tailor to your playstyle.

3. Strategic Combat: Engage in strategic combat where victory or defeat, and even the permanent loss of a character, depends on your tactical decisions. Choose your team carefully and make strategic choices during and after battles to ensure survival.

4. Caravan Management: Manage your caravan as you traverse the frozen landscape, ensuring the survival of your group and civilization. Your role in building and managing your caravan is crucial to your own survival and the survival of those around you.

5. Hand-Drawn Art: Immerse yourself in beautifully hand-drawn combat sequences and animations, accompanied by an evocative score from Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory. The game's art style and music draw inspiration from Norse mythology, bringing the Viking saga to life in 2D glory.

6. Multiplayer Combat: Sharpen your combat skills in the free multiplayer game mode "Factions." Compete against other players using many of the character classes featured in The Banner Saga.