Banner Saga 12+
Stoic
Designed for iPad
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- $14.99
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Description
Embark on your own epic journey in Banner Saga, the critically acclaimed tactical RPG where your strategic choices directly affect your personal story and the world around you.
Leave your home and strike out on a desperate journey to save your people. Lead your caravan across stunning environments and into war with enemy clans and vicious Drudge soldiers. Build relationships and make choices that will shape the future of your clan as you scramble to survive in this beautiful, bleak world.
Banner Saga Features:
- A unique fantasy realm inspired by Norse mythology – explore a grim world shaped by the legends of the Vikings. Uncover ancient lore and battle tooth and nail to carve out a new bastion in a world abandoned by the gods.
- Beautiful 2D rotoscope animation - immerse yourself in beautifully hand drawn combat sequences and animations, accompanied by an evocative score from Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory.
- Real choices with real consequences – every decision you make on the trail, in conversation and during combat has a meaningful effect on the outcome as your unique story unfolds.
- Over 25 playable characters with unique personalities – form relationships in and out of combat with a variety of characters from 7 different classes, each with unique abilities and upgrade options to fit your play style.
- Strategic combat with permanent repercussions – choose your warriors, form your strategy and strike. Adapt to a dynamic battlefield where your tactics determine who lives and who dies. Victory, defeat and even the permanent loss of a character depends on the choices you make.
- Winner of the Geekie Award for best Indie Video Game, 2014, Independent Games Festival Finalist for Excellence in Visual Art and Honorable mentions for Design and Audio.
Only your choices can guide your caravan through the harsh winter, past mystical enemies and brutal Viking clans. When the trail is uncertain, can you take the lead?
Download Banner Saga and begin your journey today.
NOTE: Banner Saga does NOT run on iPhone 4. iPhone 4S and more modern devices recommended.
What’s New
Version 1.06
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
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.
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...
Match Resolution:
-Consequences tab shows injured units
-Achievements tab shows new achievements
-Items tab shows newly acquired items
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.
Fix issue in Ludin/Vedrfell tutorial getting stuck if ludin has been upgraded
Fix issue preventing class achievements from unlocking
Fix typos
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)
Added a slider setting for scaling the UI larger or smaller.
Disable the Quit Game button in options for the iOS builds.
Fixed an issue with the battle HUD elements so they scale up/down with other UI.
Added message for when players have iCloud disabled.
Fix for scaling of subtitles.
Update minimum iOS version to 9.0
Fix for Backbiter champion using Dagr's appearance.
Add 'Buy TBS 2' function to start page.
Changed the link for rating the app.
Fix bad quotation marks in Polish text.
Reduce max memory used by heraldry.
Set anim compression values to those used in saga 2. Should fix a bunch of memory-related crashes.
Ratings and Reviews
An Even Greater Experience on iOS
I'm always skeptical when it comes to porting beautiful games from PC or console platforms onto iOS. While there's a lot to be said for iOS device's ability to display some beautiful graphics, sometimes a lot can be lost in the transition.
Not so with Banner Saga.
This is a game that exudes beauty in its design, its story, and its strategy, and the touch controls if anything have improved the experience to me. I urge you to experience it.
Excellent game, though not without flaws.
All in all, proving to be an enjoyable experience, worth the price of admission, the writing is at least passable, though not without the odd typo, and at points quite nuanced. The graphical style is engaging, and the gameplay generally solid, with the primary exceptions of the lack of default ‘threat’ generated by combat actions and positioning outside of certain skills and abilities (the AI will suicidally hunt a single target regardless of whether it is surrounded by more pressing foes who have been beating it over the head or not). The only real black mark on the game is the utterly imbecilic turn order/initiative system, which is a headache to manage and is a far greater factor of influence on the strategic considerations of the gameplay than is enjoyable. There were better ways of implementing an interchangeable turn based tactics system than the one implemented, and I can only hope that the future instalments dispensed with it in favour of the various tried and tested alternatives that better facilitate the intended upsides.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the well thought out review, we're always happy to have some feedback. I'm happy to hear you had a good time with the game!
Love it! When is the Banner Saga 3 coming out?
Love it! When is the Banner Saga 3 coming out? [The only reason I haven’t bought Banner Saga 2 yet is because I want to play the whole trilogy on iOS!]
This is what it would look like if the Mass Effect series were a tactics game with beautiful art and animation, had a Viking fantasy setting instead of a space opera, and a paced but complex gamely, but with less Reapers and more Dredge! [I think some of the minds of Stoic were from BioWare!]
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the great review! We're always to hear about people having a good time with our game. At this time we have no plans to put the third game onto mobile, but if that changes we would announce it on our social medai channels (@BannerSaga). Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. All the best!
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Stoic Studio, Inc.
- Size
- 2 GB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco or Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © 2024 Stoic, Inc.
- Price
- $14.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.