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Bannerlord is ever so slightly more than the sum of its parts - clunky inventory management, Chivalry-adjacent combat, and a dynamic open map combine to make something pretty special. I can't overlook the shortcomings in each element of the whole game, but the potential for emergent storytelling seems there. Almost 40 hrs in and I haven't even completed a campaign, I feel like the core loop of the game wears a little thin after this long. Still, I had fun with the time I spent with it, but I am not sure I want to keep scraping to find more to love.

You never quit Mount & Blade, you just take long breaks.

Monçuk musun bok musun bilmiyom ama yerinde dur amcik

I bought this day one of early access becuase of how much I love this series, but it's not the best in the series... But damnit it's so close.

It's good, I think the combat feels more fluid and impact heavy than Warband, shield bashing, bracing, couching, and all the directional swings and their tying animations look great. Sieges are also a large improvement over the first game, no longer will you only have one ladder that you're pushed off of constantly, now they're action packed and awesome affairs. This game is basically a visually refined Warband, most features are retained, some new ones are added. if you enjoyed Warband, you'll enjoy this. But... Early game and late game suck. The middle game is the only fun part, as early game has few too little ways to earn money and renown so you'll find yourself grinding the same four quests or doing hundreds of tournaments. And the late game really breaks down the AI. Sadly the modding community for this game isn't as expansive as Warband's.

For now, if you want a modding scene, stay with Warband as this has yet to have any full big total conversions release, (although there are some EA Warhammer, Samurai, and Rome ones, but not nearly as complete as warbands). It is a good game, just could be better.

I really love this game, because i always wanted to become a leader of my own army. The only things holding this game back is wonky ai, a lot of bugs and the ai always acting the same at the start of the game. If i were to rate it based also on the mods i would give it 5/5. Mods repair everything in this game, improve it and also add a lot of cool stuff.


sorry, warband was way better.

Bannerlord is a bigger, shinier game than Warband in every aspect, and yet it lacks the flair and charm of its predecessor. Waiting on more overhaul mods to release before I reinstall.

Game is good, addicted to playing it actually. Could have been better if there was more things to do

Better than Warband if less charming. As ambitious as this game is, it still has not yet reached the fullness of its potential

Maybe it’s just me, but I have a very hard time getting into this. The gameplay is frustrating and jank, and the general UI is hard to adjust to. I want to give it another try, but it just isn’t for me I think, which is sad considering that I’ve played similar games to this in the past.

Kısa bir inceleme yazacağım. Başlayalım.

MB Warband'da saatlerimi vermiş biri olarak söylüyorum. Tıpkısının aynısı sadece hafif upgrade yemiş. Campaign kasarken sadece ilk başları sarıyor, ki zaten erken oyun deneyimi tıpatıp Warband ile aynısı. Haydut mekaniği, görevlerden altın vurmak, ha biraz ticaret mekaniği eklemişler, koca bir alkış! Yahu nerede diplomasi seçenekleri, nerede o vaat ettiğiniz epik savaşlar. Ulan bu tıpatıp aynısı. Önce çıkardınız oyunu, herkes itin götüne sokunca yahu daha bitmedi oyun, bitince o zaman göreceksiniz dediniz. Oyun çıktı, hala aynı lan. 20 kılıç yerine 40 kılıç yaptıkları için sanırım oyunu "ah işte şimdi çıkardık" mı dediniz. Ben hype manyağı tayfadan değildim. Ama yine de beklentilerim vardı ve samimi söylüyorum hiçbirini karşılamamışlar. Krallık kurması ayrı dert, yok etmesi ayrı dert (Evet dert çünkü krallıklar yok olmuyor xD).

Kısaca, hala vakit öldürmelik Sandbox oyunu. 3 yıl sonra adam olur belki. Ama ben hiç ama hiç sanmıyorum. Puanım 2 yıldız.

It's hard to believe we lived without bannerlord, or that there was a time this was considered vaporware, but this is an excellent game.

Sequel to the greatest sandbox game ever made.

Amazing how people on steam are so quick to forgive devs who claim they're in dev hell but in reality simply don't want to work on anything.

There was so much promised in this game and took them 12 years including a engine change. Only to slap on 1.0 when they decided they don't want to work on it anymore.

They throw in small updates now but after removing possible new content or content that expanded on old existing stuff.

Relying on the modding community once again to make a souless game to make it successful.

Maybe in another 10 years of development itll be as good as the first game

güzel ama ben mount and blade e doymuşum onu fark ettim warband saolsun

Kocaman bir hayal kırıklığı

- bac à sable de jeux de guerre/stratégie médiéval, faut s'immerger de facon rp dedans sinon ça devient très vite redondant.

- La sensation grisante de mener la charge d'une armée et foncer dans la mélée

- Des bugs d'ia qui softlock les batailles.

please take this game away from me i can't fuckin stop.

also long live Battania and fuck the empire, all my homies hate the empire

Bannerlord as a concept is one of the best sandbox game of the decades. Played it since the early access that lasted a very long time wich was not a good sign at all but the game is so addictive that you forget about it. Now there is some unacceptable things that you can't forget and it's pretty much the fact that this is unstable as hell. Since the very beginning untill now!! The game itself is good but lacks of so so much material that you've quickly seen everything. That is why the game lives pretty much through the mod community. TaleWorlds know that for sure but the game is still very unstable despite tons and tons of patchs wich is just saddening.

Very satisfying to use a menavlion on horseback and one-shot enemy commanders while going 60 mph. Unfortunately the length of time this was in early access drove off a lot of the modding community, hopefully they'll come back eventually to help add to replayability.

Still waiting for the full feature set, when it has them I am sure it will be better than warband

It's very underwhelming if you were a fan of Warband, like me. The only aspect in which it improves is visuals, and I'd argue that it's worse in many other aspects.

Mods are a must if you want to enjoy this game, since it has A LOT of weird design decisions. But most mods are nowadays broken since the devs break mod compatibility on every update and I guess most mod developers gave up on the game years ago.

What hurts me most is that I feel like the game didn't improve at all since its early access version in 2020. They did a bunch of updates but apparently didn't add or fix anything relevant since then, it still feels like a beta version.

very ambitious, kinda lackluster results after like 3 years tho ngl. has the potential to be a goat game in the future


it's a shame, but taleworlds' changes to both the strategic and battle ai have made the core loop more of a slog when compared to warband, and when combined with its extremely exploitable systems and design that seems to be lacking in intention, it comes together as a pretty but empty experience. my former optimism is steadily dwindling as taleworlds has struggled to deliver meaningful improvements for several years, and their saving grace for their previous games, the modding community, has been at least temporarily scared away by their erratic and compatibility-breaking updates.

Very good game that sucks you into playing it for a whole day.

It's a mediocre game with no soul. Even compared to Warband, it feels like a downgrade. In 2022 the full version was released, but it was never a game that came close to today's standards. After 2 years of early access and a total of 10 years in development, the result is really disappointing. Taleworlds has not improved in any way since their first Mount & Blade release. They are still developing games like in 2008.

Unless you're really interested in the game, you may want to just give Bannerlord a little more time to cook (this review was posted ~3/4 into 2023). Modding enhances the game but updates frequently break mods so the community is a bit disjointed, but once this game gets its bearings (whenever that happens) it'll probably be a masterpiece.. the troop commanding is really fun and it's satisfying to wipe out armies & win through good combat strategy but the gameplay is just barebones and repetitive. Multiplayer is rough, non-1v1 modes are really tedious and just.. not fun.