Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

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User Score
8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 174 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 127 out of 174
  2. Mixed: 31 out of 174
  3. Negative: 16 out of 174

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  1. Ratingss
    Mar 27, 2023
    4
    The original game was made by a couple and was the jewel in everyone eyes because we all saw the potential, but 14 years later and supposedly with a publisher and everything now, this isnt any better.
  2. tlupemirhan
    Mar 14, 2023
    0
    I have been waiting for years. The best game in its genre. You can play several times with different methods, The best "sword on the horse" wielding mechanic is undoubtedly in Bannerlord. They really improved the Warband
  3. Raegnir
    Feb 18, 2023
    0
    After 10 years how can someone make the game worse is there any explanation?
  4. Art_919
    Feb 6, 2023
    4
    The game is extremely grindy. In order to make any progress it's a rinse and repeat cycle of constant annoying quests, and chasing bandits across the map. Early game is extremely important in hooking a consumer on to play more, and this game fails that drastically.

    Once you get past the tedious and annoying block of the early game you can start to enjoy the mid to late game which is    The game is extremely grindy. In order to make any progress it's a rinse and repeat cycle of constant annoying quests, and chasing bandits across the map. Early game is extremely important in hooking a consumer on to play more, and this game fails that drastically.

    Once you get past the tedious and annoying block of the early game you can start to enjoy the mid to late game which is where the game picks up. The combat is decent but nothing out of this world, the the ordering system is rather annoying to get used to.

    In conclusion, it is not worthy of a rating of 8, and it's a decent game at best.    … Expand
  5. shemaforash
    Feb 13, 2023
    0
    The TaleWorlds team has deserted multiplayer development and left us with a barren and soulless experience. A game that has taken roughly 12 years to release as an "improvement" upon warband. This is pure lies and not true. Warband was leagues beyond bannerlord, it had better combat, better equipment selection and better gamemodes. In fact, the game is new and multiplayer is mostly dead.The TaleWorlds team has deserted multiplayer development and left us with a barren and soulless experience. A game that has taken roughly 12 years to release as an "improvement" upon warband. This is pure lies and not true. Warband was leagues beyond bannerlord, it had better combat, better equipment selection and better gamemodes. In fact, the game is new and multiplayer is mostly dead. The only content that exists is multiplayer mods, those are made by reverse engineering code that TaleWorlds hasn't released for public use. it took almost 3 years for us to get custom servers so we could host. This game is not "new", it just released but it's been in early access for better part of 3 years. We were invited to alpha test the game and the developers flat out told us that things were not changing and this is the direction upper management had chosen to go. I am deeply disappointed in this game.… Expand
  6. rocktherock
    Nov 2, 2022
    4
    It's 10 for the first 10 hours. Then it's just an annoying grindfest for hours and hours. You need to spend long hours to become something meaningful in the game, even if you succeed to complete this grinding, you will end up doing same thing over and over but in different shape. Nothing in this game feels anywhere near being finished. It feels like it pushes hard to be an RPG, but failsIt's 10 for the first 10 hours. Then it's just an annoying grindfest for hours and hours. You need to spend long hours to become something meaningful in the game, even if you succeed to complete this grinding, you will end up doing same thing over and over but in different shape. Nothing in this game feels anywhere near being finished. It feels like it pushes hard to be an RPG, but fails miserably. The game simply lack of any depth and everything in that fictional world is pretty much bland and uninteresting. For a text based RPG, even the story and dialogues are basic, as if it's written by a mod developer. And oh, mods. Without mods, this game would be a bigger disappointment than Cyberpunk 2077… Expand
  7. Bluehydra
    Dec 11, 2022
    0
    Can't recommend this game, as the development team abandoned the game before it was ready for release, this means a lot of content and system implementation has not been developed for the game. leaving it missing over half the content its predecessor had.
  8. DickLucious
    Nov 12, 2022
    3
    Horribly menus and menu navigation. The learning curve is awful. Full cavalry charge into infantry and you do 1 damage and they just stand there instead of flying backwards. Played for an hour and just couldn’t stand it any longer. I want my money back.
  9. PenetratorGod
    Jan 16, 2023
    0
    As long as Warband exists, there will be no reason to play this garbage. The company that made this game is a joke.
  10. mennybolt
    Oct 28, 2022
    2
    Just empty, dull and same game as it was in early access. No depth in it. It rather lacks so many details and gameplay mechanics that we had in Warband. In mechanics and graphics wise it's a huge improvement but in gameplay wise it is a really bad downgrade and trust me on M&B if you lack diplomacy, good dialogues and variety in gameplay nobody will care if you have better graphics and visuals.
  11. Procrustes
    May 14, 2023
    3
    I am very disappointing i've paid full price for an early access game when it was released few years ago. Now it cost way less its in way better condition and modders are doing what they always did since the first game.
  12. Ser3ndip1ty
    Aug 22, 2023
    2
    200 hours in, played throughout the early access phases. To be honest, it's really a kind of torment.
  13. erfunfazli
    Apr 17, 2023
    3
    Game is not bad in first hours because it gives you some cool combat experience.
    but it will get worse and worse by time and finaly after some hours everything will get annoying.
    1.there is no serious improvement compared to warband 2.real bad battle leading mechanism. 3.it has an annoying process to make your dynasty. 4.One of the grindiest games who i have seen. 5.you want to get    Game is not bad in first hours because it gives you some cool combat experience.
    but it will get worse and worse by time and finaly after some hours everything will get annoying.
    1.there is no serious improvement compared to warband
    2.real bad battle leading mechanism.
    3.it has an annoying process to make your dynasty.
    4.One of the grindiest games who i have seen.
    5.you want to get powerful in game? repeat repeat repeat some annoying jobs like raiding and...
    If time is not valuable for you, you can play this garbage.    … Expand
  14. lalala3000
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    unfinished buggy game, the multiplayer servers keep crashing. Has been in early access for 2 years with the same problem.

    Even in single player they have not added all the skills and the game is buggy.

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77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 24, 2024
    80
    The game offers an incredible amount of options, and if you don't enjoy the campaign, you can have a blast in the elaborate battle mode, where you'll command up to hundreds of warriors and work together to destroy enemies, protect villages or conquer castles. [Issue#324]
  2. Multiplayer.it
    Jan 16, 2023
    80
    Mount & Blade II Bannerlord is not an easy game to get into, and several of its mechanics are not introduced very clearly. There is also a lot of repetition, at multiple levels of the game, between side quests and repeated events. At the same time, however, it gives us access to a large sandbox that immerses us in an all-too-believable medieval world and allows us to transform from a simple country mercenary to a lord, enjoying large-scale battles and watching our kingdom grow.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Dec 31, 2022
    81
    Mount & Blade 2 transports us into an endless chaotic world full of events, battles and amazing adventures. At times it feels like a victim of its own complexity — some of the game's intricate systems don’t mesh together or never work as advertised, the economy is flawed, there’s a frightening dearth of conventions… Yet this elaborate medieval world will eat up at least a hundred hours out of your life.
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