Big thanks to Taleworlds, because nobody else is making the digital crack called Mount & Blade, one of the most addicting game series ever. Strategy games are cool and all, but why play pure RTS when you can combine it with 1st or 3rd person action, and command your troops in person while ploughing through a line of archers on your heavily armored steed, or being among the first up the ladders when conquering a variety of picturesque castles and cities?

Bannerlord is what the fans know and love with classic M&B vanilla Warband, but simply puts it in a modern coat of paint and polishes the rough edges a bit. There are still issues, like diplomacy being basic, some of which can be remedied with modding. The modding selection isn't as amazing yet as it is for Warband, especially when it comes to gigantic overhaul mods, but once Taleworlds puts the final stamp on the game, hopefully the modding scene will flourish as it once did. But even unmodded, you can have hundreds of hours of fun with Bannerlord. I'd recommend playing vanilla first anyway, to get a sense of what you'd want to modify to begin with.

Wonderful with mods on steam an on nexus

Buggy, underdeveloped, overpriced, and crash every 10 minutes. Well done.

game

I love this game so much

I want stones removed from this game, I hate them so much. Looters are OP.

Thank you Steam workshop for ruining this game.
Force updating mods to the newest version works wonderfully when using older version which is necessary to run some other mods.
Can't recommend.

Abandonware since april 2023

From early access to today, the game has seen very little change. The current state of the game is absolutely atrocious the level of content after so long is abysmal and the diplomacy/politics still sucks, the NPCs/companions are boring and soulless, the quests are repetitive, the end game is basically just bonking everyone in the same battle over and over, and the character traits system still seems half-baked.

The only shining light is the combat is fluid and less robotic compared to Warband, the graphics, and the pretty interesting lore. The economy is better than Warband with needs/wants of every town and population and what not, but its still not overly sophisticated.

Game has been in development for OVER 10 years and its basically a slightly better, but worse in other areas, Warband. Calling this game a full release is a joke. TLDR: Taleworlds incompetence, who woulda thunk?

game is abandoned by devs, they took our money and left us with an unfinished bare-bones sandbox game.
if you don't have a Morgan Freeman inner voice to narrate the game for you, don't even buy it, it's very dry.