The Banner Saga
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (36%); after 10h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 91% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 16,041 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 14.4h for positive, 7.3h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (90.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (39)
story milestone ending side
- Warhawk Defeat an enemy with a Warhawk. 100%
- Raidmaster Defeat an enemy with a Raidmaster. 95%
- Warden Defeat an enemy with a Warden. 88%
- Shieldmaster Defeat an enemy with a Shieldmaster. 80%
- Warmaster Defeat an enemy with a Warmaster. 79%
- Hunter Defeat an enemy with a Hunter. 77%
- Strongarm Defeat an enemy with a Strongarm. 74%
- Eagle Eye Defeat an enemy with an Eagle Eye. 73%
- Godstone Hridvaldyr Visit the godstone Hridvaldyr. 71%
- Skystriker Defeat an enemy with a Skystriker. 67%
- Spearmaster Defeat an enemy with a Spearmaster. 65%
- Thrasher Defeat an enemy with a Thrasher. 56%
- Godstone Denglr Visit the godstone Denglr. 56%
- Siege Archer Defeat an enemy with a Siege Archer. 55%
- Provoker Defeat an enemy with a Provoker. 53%
- Godstone Radormyr Visit the godstone Radormyr. 49%
- Godstone Marek Visit the godstone Marek. 48%
- Godstone Hadrborg Visit the godstone Hadrborg. 47%
- Godstone Dundr Visit the godstone Dundr. 43%
- Mender Defeat an enemy with a Mender. 42%
- Godstone Ingrid Visit the godstone Ingrid. 42%
- Warleader Defeat an enemy with a Warleader. 42%
- Godstone Bjorulf Visit the godstone Bjorulf. 40%
- Godstone Stravhs Visit the godstone Stravhs. 38%
- Bowmaster Defeat an enemy with a Bowmaster. 29%
- Treasure Hunter Acquire 5 rank 5 items. 27%
- Backbiter Defeat an enemy with a Backbiter. 26%
- Grudgewielder Defeat an enemy with a Grudgewielder. 23%
- Normal Difficulty Complete the game on Normal difficulty. 21%
- Diplomat Get permission to destroy a varl landmark. 18%
- Warmonger Fight 40 battles in a single playthrough. 11%
- Beat the Odds Whew...Egil made it the whole way! 8.1%
- Quartermaster Complete the game without letting anyone in your caravan die to hunger. 8.0%
- Forced March Reach Boersgard in 120 days. 4.5%
- Innocent Alette doesn't want to harm humans or varl...don't make her. 4.4%
- High Spirits Complete the game without ever getting low morale. 2.6%
- Hard Difficulty Complete the game on Hard difficulty. 1.9%
- Challenge Complete the game on Hard difficulty level without losing a single battle. 1.7%
- Master Tactician Win a battle on Hard difficulty in the camp Training Tent using 6 rank 5 units. 1.3%