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{| style="margin: auto; width: 100%;" The Banner Saga 3 is the highly anticipated final game of an award winning trilogy. Released on July 26th, 2018, it's a role-playing game merged with turn-based strategy, wrapped into an adventure mini-series about Vikings.
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Many modern games play it safe – you are the chosen one who always saves the day. Our game is different, you can’t take anything for granted in Banner Saga.

Picture the classic tactical strategy games of your childhood but refined for the modern age. It's not about grinding to get past the next fight. Every encounter, every decision you make has heavy and sometimes far-reaching consequences. It throws you into the end of the world and asks,"how do you deal with this"? Overall, Banner Saga 3 is aimed at people who appreciate art, story and strategy.

Apart from the main campaign (story-mode), Banner Saga 3 offers the following turn-based-combat oriented modes (click on banners for detailed articles):





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Gameplay

 * Achievements
 * The Last Stand
 * Warped Enemies
 * Into the Abyss

Turn-Based Combat

 * New Abilities
 * New items
 * Heroic Titles
 * Waves Mode

Characters

 * Dredge Heroes
 * Alfrun
 * Petrus
 * NPCs

Lore

 * Godstones
 * The Darkness
 * Warping
 * Inner Earth
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The award-winning epic role-playing game continues with The Banner Saga 2 where The Banner Saga left off, in a world with left in grim darkness as the Dredge slowly overtake it. Cities and towns continue to crumble into chaos. Heroes still remain, as new ones grow more prominent, and again as before choose wisely as decisions have consequences and wise choices must be made when conversing with possible allies during intricately crafted dialogues. Turn-based strategy brings tactical challenge in hand-animated battle sequences. Continue your Saga – Make sure you complete the first game so you can import your saved game to Banner Saga 2 and keep your Characters, Items, Levels, Choices, and more carry forward straight in to Banner Saga 2.
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Gameplay

 * Achievements
 * Events
 * Talents
 * Training Scenarios

Turn-Based Combat

 * New Abilities
 * New Items
 * Battlefield Objectives
 * Destructible Blockers

Characters

 * New Heroes
 * NPCs
 * Horseborn
 * Kragsmen
 * More Dredge
 * All Enemies

Lore

 * Godstones
 * Map
 * Locations
 * Races
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The Banner Saga is an epic role-playing game inspired by Viking legend. Hand-painted landscapes portray a world eerily suspended in perpetual twilight. Cities and towns begin to crumble into chaos. Heroes abandon their hearths and homes to traverse the snowy countryside, gaining allies along the way to help battle a strange, new threat.
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Decisions have consequences; wise choices must be made when conversing with possible allies during intricately crafted dialogues. Turn-based strategy brings tactical challenge in hand-animated battle sequences. With visuals evocative of the golden age of animation, The Banner Saga brings skillfully crafted art, story and strategy to gamers waiting to re-experience classic adventures and tactics.

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Gameplay

 * Achievements
 * Caravan
 * Chapters
 * Combat
 * Events
 * Renown
 * User Interface

Turn-Based Combat

 * Overview
 * Stats
 * Items
 * Leveling
 * Training
 * Camp
 * War

Characters

 * Heroes
 * NPCs
 * Dredge
 * Enemies

Lore

 * Godstones
 * Map
 * Locations
 * Races
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The Banner Saga: Factions is the premiere multiplayer role-playing strategy game on PC and Mac. It brings the feeling of beloved tactical games to a high-definition era with gorgeous hand-animated artwork and a degree of depth unprecedented in the realm of free games. Fight, learn, and lead your clan of vikings to glory!
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Gameplay

 * Achievements
 * Maps
 * Stats
 * Renown

Game Mechanics

 * Getting Started
 * Matches
 * Tactical Strategies
 * Tournaments

Units

 * Archer
 * Raider
 * Shieldbanger
 * Warrior
 * All Units
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