Games like The Banner Saga: Factions
If The Banner Saga: Factions is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Banner Saga 2, The Banner Saga 3 and King's Bounty: Warriors of the North — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chess like tactical depth, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Banner Saga: Factions: 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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The Banner Saga 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Top pick for The Banner Saga: Factions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.
The Banner Saga 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Second-strongest match for The Banner Saga: Factions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Banner Saga 3 is the epic conclusion to a sweeping viking saga six years in the making. This strategic RPG, acclaimed for its strong story and compelling characters has won over 20 awards and been nominated for 4 BAFTA awards.
King's Bounty: Warriors of the North
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Third-strongest match for The Banner Saga: Factions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Banner Saga: Factions.
King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North is a standalone entry of the beloved tactical RPG series set in the world of The Legend, generations after its events. You will lead a Viking hero, wield Rune Magic, command Valkyries, and defend the northern lands of Endoria from an undead invasion.
ENDLESS™ Legend
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Ranked #4 for The Banner Saga: Factions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Banner Saga: Factions.
ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!
The Banner Saga
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Ranked #5 for The Banner Saga: Factions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Spear Song
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Ranked #6 for The Banner Saga: Factions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Ancient Slavic knights fight against evil in turn-based tactical combat! Lead your group through the kingdom to cleanse the land from fiends and monsters! Each attempt presents a new, randomly generated journey.
Pox Nora
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Shares an epic mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Ranked #7 for The Banner Saga: Factions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Delve into classic turn-based strategy gaming with elements of table top miniatures, fantasy RPG and TCG style gameplay all wrapped into one.
Chaos Reborn
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Shares a challenging mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Ranked #8 for The Banner Saga: Factions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
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The Banner Saga
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Reviewers of The Banner Saga: Factions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
The Banner Saga 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Reviewers of The Banner Saga: Factions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.
Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 3 - Lair of the Leviathan
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Reviewers of The Banner Saga: Factions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Banner Saga: Factions.
About Chapter One The saga begins with a heated battle involving the brave but often bumbling Mighty Pirate™ Guybrush, his beloved wife Elaine, and their nemesis, the demon pirate LeChuck. When the showdown goes up in flames, Guybrush finds himself marooned on a strange island with winds that always blow inward.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with The Banner Saga: Factions.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Banner Saga: Factions.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with The Banner Saga: Factions.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Banner Saga: Factions.
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Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with The Banner Saga: Factions.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Samsara Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with The Banner Saga: Factions.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Stoic, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Banner Saga
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Another title from Stoic, the studio behind The Banner Saga: Factions. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
The Banner Saga 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Another title from Stoic, the studio behind The Banner Saga: Factions. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.
The Banner Saga 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Another title from Stoic, the studio behind The Banner Saga: Factions. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Banner Saga 3 is the epic conclusion to a sweeping viking saga six years in the making. This strategic RPG, acclaimed for its strong story and compelling characters has won over 20 awards and been nominated for 4 BAFTA awards.
Towerborne
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Another title from Stoic, the studio behind The Banner Saga: Factions. Shares RPG with The Banner Saga: Factions.
Towerborne is an exciting side-scrolling Action RPG Brawler. As an immortal warrior journey across a crumbling world, uncover the mystery of the fallen City of Numbers, and push back the corruption threatening humanity’s survival.
Frequently asked about The Banner Saga: Factions
- Does The Banner Saga: Factions have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Banner Saga: Factions supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
- What games are most similar to The Banner Saga: Factions?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Banner Saga: Factions are The Banner Saga 2, The Banner Saga 3, King's Bounty: Warriors of the North.
- Who developed The Banner Saga: Factions?
- The Banner Saga: Factions was developed by Stoic and published by Versus Evil.
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