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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 55% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 299,578
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 20h it's 1 in 8 (12%).
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 55% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
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Based on all 300,831 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 56.9h for positive, 58.3h 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 (54.6% 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 (50)
story milestone ending side
- Lawbringer Clear a hideout. 100%
- Landlord Obtain your first fief. 71%
- Trained Finish tutorial. 67%
- Bannerlord Assemble Dragon Banner of Calradia. 54%
- Lawmaker Propose and win a policy. 54%
- This Is Our Land Repel an attack on the walls. 50%
- Horde breaker Defeat an Army with your party alone. 50%
- King Solomon Acquire 10000 denars a day. 49%
- Entrepreneur Own a workshop and a caravan at the same time. 45%
- Apple of my eye First born child. 44%
- I can do it Capture a town on your own. 43%
- Against all odds Defeat a force that has 500 more troops than you 41%
- The king is pleased Get 1.000 in tributes in a single day. 39%
- My way Start your own Kingdom. 32%
- Duelist Defeat Radagos in a duel. 31%
- Butterlord Have 100 butters in your inventory. 31%
- Dynasty Reach clan tier 6. 29%
- What have the Romans ever done for us? Complete all projects in a settlement. 27%
- Mastery Increase any skill to 300. 25%
- God of the Arena Become the leader of the tournament board. 24%
- Swordbearer Craft a tier 6 sword. 23%
- I spit on your grave Execute a lord that you have -100 relations with. 22%
- Know your enemy Win 100 battles against enemy armies. 19%
- Crush your enemies Defeat 10.000 troops. 14%
- Crowdfunded Win 100 tournaments. 13%
- Real Estate Assault and capture 100 fortifications. 11%
- Veni vidi vici Become a king with 21 clans under your rule. 11%
- Freedom! Barbarian victory. 9.5%
- Long live the Empire! Imperial victory. 7.5%
- Supreme Emperor Conquer all Calradia. 6.6%
- Minor Clan Have your 7'th kid born. 6.4%
- Crackshot Score a headshot from 200 meters away. 4.6%
- Catch Kill an enemy player with a boulder 3.5%
- Kingslayer Kill a faction King or Queen in battle. 3.3%
- Fat Cat Make 1 million denars trade profit. 2.9%
- Undercover Complete an issue in a hostile town. 2.7%
- Mounted Archery Kill 500 troops with range weapons while on horseback. 2.0%
- Ride it like you stole it Spawning on foot, commandeer a mount and kill 5 enemy players without dying. 2.0%
- Slice n dice Kill 10 enemies with a successful chain attack combo. 2.0%
- Strike! Kill 3 enemy players with a single mangonel shot. 2.0%
- Explorer Visit every settlement in the world in a game. 1.8%
- Great Granny Become a great grandparent. 1.5%
- Headhunter Kill 100 enemy players with headshots with ranged weapons in multiplayer. 1.5%
- Roadkill Kill 100 enemies with charge damage in multiplayer. 1.1%
- This is Sparta! Kick an enemy player off a wall to death. 0.7%
- Best served cold Execute a lord that has executed one of your clan members. 0.5%
- Butcher of Calradia Kill 10.000 other opponents in captain mode, with your troops. 0.5%
- Heartbreaker Marry the widow of a lord or lady you personally executed. 0.5%
- Jack of All Trades Get a kill with a melee weapon, mounted melee, ranged, mounted range, and cauch lance in one skirmish round. 0.5%
- Lance-a-lot Kill 500 troops with a couched weapon while on horseback. 0.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.