We Love It's Guide to…
Lead a caravan through a collapsing world, managing supplies and choices while fighting tactical, turn-based battles.
Released 19 Apr 2016
Import Past Choices
Manage Caravan Supplies
Lead a Refugee Caravan
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.
Developed by Stoic · Published by Stoic
Continuing the story of The Banner Saga, you lead a caravan of refugees through a world under threat. You can import a save from the first game, carrying earlier decisions into this chapter as you take responsibility for the group’s survival.
During the journey, you make choices in conversations and events, manage supplies and morale, and decide how to handle the caravan’s needs and conflicts. Those decisions can affect characters and events as the story unfolds.
Combat takes place in turn-based battles on a tiled board. Build and level a roster of fighters, use their different abilities and classes, and adapt to new characters and enemies. Battles can bring lasting consequences, including the loss of characters.
Players often enjoy the continuation of the story, especially how imported choices carry forward and how difficult decisions shape the journey. The hand-drawn visuals and music are recurring highlights, while many also appreciate the tactical battles and expanded roster of abilities and characters. Some reviewers find the combat repetitive or the chapter’s ending incomplete, and others report bugs that interrupt play.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 55 |
| Age ratings |
|
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Content notices |
|
| Metacritic | 82/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
