Mount & Blade

This is currently my favourite game, in fact I started with Warband but I prefer this version for various reasons: - More bandits encounters - My character looks cooler when he stands in the menu (in warband his stance looks sassy) - More battle orientated - The AI doesn't mainly target me, more fair Cons: - Crashes, waaaay too often. Really irritating and a shame because otherwise I would give this 5 stars. Please, please, please, can you work on an update to encounter this. I have a super high end gaming PC, and even after trying to dumb down all of the graphics it still crashes randomly. Mainly towards the end of a battle which is infuriating! Sometimes I'm finding myself repeating the same battle over and over again until it completes without a crash. Sometimes it just crashes when I've paused it which is crazy!

text nostalgia for the win, something something praise for a tiless game, pc not string enough for bannerlord plough the fields with sorrow and ice

Good Old Game indeed. Nice to play, even in 2025

Altough a lot of people are telling to skip this game and move straight to warband i can't help but love this one. It looks very similar to warband but i got a very different feel from it, you don't have factions conquering eachother without player intervention like in warband for example. Can still recommend buying it, escpecially when on sale, right now its only €2,49

I can imagine that this is someone's cup of tea, but it is certainly not mine. The combat is not bad, but certainly not without its flaws. Its controls are too limited, and there are too few win-conditions, meaning that if it is you and another horsemen left, you'll be running circles around each other until the end of time, because neither of you can catch up with the other. And this is really all the game has to offer. Tournaments are a waste of time. You are given 'a weapon' and told to fight. Never mind that your PC may be specced to another fighting style, and you and the other archer are just shooting arrows at one another until either side runs out and has to resign to punching (advice, run up, start a punching fight, then draw your bow while the NPC keeps punching for no damage). Or worse, you get a bow and get told to deal with a few swordsmen. The same applies to the overworld, when you have too few men in your band to defend yourself properly, you'll be hounded by other gangs who keep chasing you down until you run out of men (just hit surrender, because leaving a man behind to hold them off doesn't actually keep them from chasing you on the world-map). When you do have enough men in your band, everyone runs away at a faster pace than you can manage. There is no story or worldbuilding to speak of, that I have found at least. No reactions to the backstory which is used to create your PC, and the various kingdoms are nigh indiscernible from one another beyond the coloured names on the overworld map. The towns themselves can vary between alright and bare-minimum effort and the overworld map itself is awfully dull. I can see how player-made mods could turn this into something interesting, maybe even good, but by itself this is not worth the time or money.