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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord cover art

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

TaleWorlds Entertainment · 2022-10-25

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ActionIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Mar 30, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 25, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Oct 25, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Oct 25, 2022 (Xbox One), Oct 25, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S)

A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is an Action, Indie, RPG, Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $49.99, with an estimated 10,000,000 .. 20,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (88% of 295474 reviews).

20,525
playing now
88%
positive of 299k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
10,000,000–20,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,075
twitch viewers (latest)
53.8
viewers/channel (concentration)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
79/100
IGDB user rating (156 ratings)
9,436
Nexus mods (152M downloads)
4.31★
PlayStation Store rating (14,984 ratings)
76/100
opencritic · strong · 68% recommend · from 35 critics
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$49.99
steam price (US)

20,525 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 21:00 UTC (census sample)

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a strategy action role-playing video game developed and published by TaleWorlds Entertainment and co-published by Prime Matter. It is a prequel to Mount & Blade: Warband, a stand-alone expansion for the 2008 game Mount & Blade. Bannerlord takes place 173 years before its predecessor, with a setting inspired by the Migration Period. Bannerlord was announced in 2012. An early access version of the game was released on March 27, 2020 and quickly became the largest launch of the year on Steam, achieving nearly 250,000 concurrent players on Steam. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on October 25, 2022.

Health check

Thriving
  • · 20,525 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 12,821 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,603/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (62,174 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 28,202 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.0M–13M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 299,422 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$24.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $12.49 at WinGameStore (2021-11-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $49.99 · on sale 35 of 71 observed days · $12.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
56k56k20202026Week of 2020-03-01: 17,278 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2,597 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 55,623 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 6,551 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 7,533 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1,594 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3,236 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 747 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2,651 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 596 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2,163 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 475 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2,113 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 453 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1,952 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 368 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 6,417 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 377 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2,504 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 424 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2,266 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 386 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1,780 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 402 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1,741 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 323 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1,629 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 329 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1,802 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 375 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1,513 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 357 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1,853 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 417 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1,601 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 407 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1,271 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 235 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1,266 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 296 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1,824 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 298 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2,390 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 376 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2,234 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 336 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1,431 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 206 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1,298 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 199 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,344 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 203 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1,208 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 223 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1,692 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 327 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,580 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 282 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1,612 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 407 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1,444 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 330 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2,523 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 678 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 7,251 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 679 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,854 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 416 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,793 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 258 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1,160 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 134 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1,374 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 259 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,024 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 161 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 936 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 130 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 906 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 129 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1,893 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 248 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1,115 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 148 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 973 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 863 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 173 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,917 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 218 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,744 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 270 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,565 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 250 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1,052 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 207 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,699 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 269 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,123 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 180 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 961 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 171 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1,294 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 230 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,730 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 325 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,142 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 203 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,119 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 173 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 930 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,153 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 157 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,755 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 270 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,479 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 268 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 932 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 178 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1,281 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 315 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 963 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 133 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 865 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,401 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 212 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1,623 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 215 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1,033 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 151 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1,323 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 175 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1,593 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 186 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2,114 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 451 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2,705 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 703 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1,614 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 377 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1,192 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 185 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1,353 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 270 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1,460 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 259 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1,297 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 250 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,141 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 273 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1,903 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 368 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1,518 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 214 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1,006 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 132 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 649 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 92 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

41k13k2026-09-15 21:00 — 19,775 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 25,612 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 33,419 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 27,252 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 29,032 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 21,057 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 16,007 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 13,997 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 18,865 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 24,463 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 31,891 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 27,914 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 27,898 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 23,502 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 15,611 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 13,149 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 18,241 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 25,290 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 30,771 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 28,568 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 28,901 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 24,957 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 19,231 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 14,317 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 19,476 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 25,389 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 34,155 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 29,814 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 26,119 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 26,722 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 16,614 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 14,457 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 19,845 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 26,386 players2026-10-15 15:00 — 33,749 players2026-10-15 21:00 — 20,525 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
113k0Oct 2016Aug 2026Oct 2016 — avg 0 · peak 6May 2020 — avg 31,530 · peak 77,878Jul 2020 — avg 11,979 · peak 20,337Sep 2020 — avg 11,078 · peak 18,990Nov 2020 — avg 9,802 · peak 15,870Jan 2021 — avg 13,377 · peak 20,790Mar 2021 — avg 13,399 · peak 23,902May 2021 — avg 13,244 · peak 22,579Jul 2021 — avg 13,476 · peak 23,145Sep 2021 — avg 11,981 · peak 20,493Nov 2021 — avg 13,074 · peak 21,420Jan 2022 — avg 21,137 · peak 34,616Mar 2022 — avg 13,346 · peak 23,207May 2022 — avg 12,462 · peak 22,530Jul 2022 — avg 13,588 · peak 21,735Sep 2022 — avg 14,968 · peak 25,684Nov 2022 — avg 31,198 · peak 58,248Jan 2023 — avg 21,487 · peak 36,560Mar 2023 — avg 17,036 · peak 30,491May 2023 — avg 15,142 · peak 25,288Jul 2023 — avg 18,941 · peak 32,460Sep 2023 — avg 13,856 · peak 24,355Nov 2023 — avg 16,131 · peak 29,483Jan 2024 — avg 21,437 · peak 37,595Mar 2024 — avg 19,577 · peak 35,220May 2024 — avg 14,814 · peak 27,183Jul 2024 — avg 19,194 · peak 33,243Sep 2024 — avg 17,119 · peak 31,734Nov 2024 — avg 17,165 · peak 30,628Jan 2025 — avg 22,768 · peak 42,729Mar 2025 — avg 17,239 · peak 33,405May 2025 — avg 15,561 · peak 27,746Jul 2025 — avg 22,170 · peak 40,701Sep 2025 — avg 21,123 · peak 45,948Nov 2025 — avg 25,077 · peak 76,423Jan 2026 — avg 26,949 · peak 49,032Mar 2026 — avg 21,077 · peak 37,996May 2026 — avg 21,266 · peak 39,451Jul 2026 — avg 25,908 · peak 46,397Aug 2026 — avg 27,887 · peak 50,302
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

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Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
1531532026-09-172026-10-152026-09-17: 37 new positive2026-09-17: 2 new negative2026-09-18: 41 new positive2026-09-18: 3 new negative2026-09-19: 25 new positive2026-09-19: 2 new negative2026-09-20: 60 new positive2026-09-20: 7 new negative2026-09-21: 46 new positive2026-09-21: 6 new negative2026-09-23: 31 new positive2026-09-23: 9 new negative2026-09-24: 36 new positive2026-09-24: 10 new negative2026-09-25: 46 new positive2026-09-25: 2 new negative2026-09-26: 42 new positive2026-09-26: 5 new negative2026-09-27: 32 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 39 new positive2026-09-28: 4 new negative2026-09-29: 42 new positive2026-09-29: 6 new negative2026-09-30: 37 new positive2026-10-01: 53 new positive2026-10-01: 4 new negative2026-10-02: 35 new positive2026-10-02: 7 new negative2026-10-03: 57 new positive2026-10-03: 4 new negative2026-10-04: 84 new positive2026-10-04: 9 new negative2026-10-05: 74 new positive2026-10-05: 13 new negative2026-10-06: 153 new positive2026-10-06: 29 new negative2026-10-07: 76 new positive2026-10-07: 8 new negative2026-10-08: 55 new positive2026-10-08: 11 new negative2026-10-09: 71 new positive2026-10-09: 3 new negative2026-10-10: 80 new positive2026-10-10: 9 new negative2026-10-11: 56 new positive2026-10-11: 4 new negative2026-10-12: 77 new positive2026-10-13: 50 new positive2026-10-13: 5 new negative2026-10-14: 59 new positive2026-10-14: 3 new negative2026-10-15: 51 new positive2026-10-15: 6 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$51.16$0.002018-01-092026-10-142018-01-09 — best price $0.002020-05-31 — best price $48.992020-07-08 — best price $49.992020-08-03 — best price $44.992020-09-03 — best price $44.992020-10-01 — best price $39.992020-11-04 — best price $49.992020-12-01 — best price $49.992021-01-07 — best price $44.892021-02-13 — best price $38.482021-03-23 — best price $49.992021-04-22 — best price $39.992021-05-18 — best price $44.992021-07-13 — best price $41.992021-09-01 — best price $44.992021-11-02 — best price $40.982022-01-01 — best price $49.992022-02-22 — best price $49.992022-04-08 — best price $49.992022-06-07 — best price $49.992022-09-06 — best price $49.992022-12-22 — best price $34.992023-03-23 — best price $49.992023-07-21 — best price $39.992023-10-07 — best price $49.992024-01-24 — best price $39.992024-04-26 — best price $49.992024-07-14 — best price $49.992024-09-19 — best price $38.692024-12-02 — best price $29.412024-12-27 — best price $24.422025-03-21 — best price $41.992025-07-17 — best price $24.992025-11-20 — best price $42.992026-02-05 — best price $49.992026-04-30 — best price $49.992026-09-09 — best price $49.992026-10-14 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

6222632026-05-13 — 318 pageviews2026-05-17 — 281 pageviews2026-05-21 — 293 pageviews2026-05-25 — 334 pageviews2026-05-29 — 353 pageviews2026-06-02 — 331 pageviews2026-06-06 — 401 pageviews2026-06-10 — 374 pageviews2026-06-14 — 509 pageviews2026-06-18 — 356 pageviews2026-06-22 — 402 pageviews2026-06-26 — 493 pageviews2026-06-30 — 368 pageviews2026-07-04 — 386 pageviews2026-07-08 — 418 pageviews2026-07-12 — 373 pageviews2026-07-16 — 351 pageviews2026-07-20 — 387 pageviews2026-07-24 — 460 pageviews2026-07-28 — 434 pageviews2026-08-01 — 423 pageviews2026-08-05 — 401 pageviews2026-08-09 — 569 pageviews2026-08-13 — 441 pageviews2026-08-17 — 439 pageviews2026-08-21 — 405 pageviews2026-08-25 — 444 pageviews2026-08-29 — 415 pageviews2026-09-02 — 303 pageviews2026-09-06 — 374 pageviews2026-09-10 — 330 pageviews2026-09-14 — 292 pageviews2026-09-18 — 296 pageviews2026-09-22 — 300 pageviews2026-09-26 — 341 pageviews2026-09-30 — 291 pageviews2026-10-04 — 376 pageviews2026-10-08 — 322 pageviews2026-10-12 — 419 pageviews2026-10-13 — 340 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2.5k202026-10-01 21:34 — 69 viewers2026-10-02 06:34 — 62 viewers2026-10-02 15:34 — 95 viewers2026-10-03 00:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-03 09:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-03 18:34 — 439 viewers2026-10-04 03:34 — 469 viewers2026-10-04 12:34 — 45 viewers2026-10-04 21:34 — 64 viewers2026-10-05 06:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-05 15:34 — 54 viewers2026-10-06 00:34 — 40 viewers2026-10-06 09:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-06 18:34 — 85 viewers2026-10-07 03:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-07 12:34 — 54 viewers2026-10-07 21:34 — 42 viewers2026-10-08 06:34 — 194 viewers2026-10-08 15:34 — 84 viewers2026-10-09 00:34 — 1,025 viewers2026-10-09 09:34 — 60 viewers2026-10-09 18:34 — 172 viewers2026-10-10 03:34 — 32 viewers2026-10-10 12:34 — 27 viewers2026-10-10 21:34 — 130 viewers2026-10-11 06:34 — 44 viewers2026-10-11 15:34 — 326 viewers2026-10-12 00:34 — 241 viewers2026-10-12 09:34 — 924 viewers2026-10-12 18:34 — 1,012 viewers2026-10-13 03:34 — 49 viewers2026-10-13 12:34 — 1,087 viewers2026-10-13 21:34 — 64 viewers2026-10-14 06:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-14 15:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-15 00:34 — 295 viewers2026-10-15 09:34 — 99 viewers2026-10-15 19:34 — 1,093 viewers2026-10-15 20:34 — 1,075 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
54%
earned "Lawbringer"
5.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudIncludes level editor3 DLC

12 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2022-12-16, latest 2025-11-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)26,7961%50
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)7,6940%51
PS5 (PlayStation)5,2710%51
PS4 (PlayStation)2,3380%51

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGWarActionHorsesSandboxMedievalModdableStrategyAdventureRealistic

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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