The Banner Saga

Story

The core of the game is a single-player campaign with turn-based battles inspired by games such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Shining Force. The player controls a group of characters with complementary abilities and can build them up. According to the developers, their goal was to create a "mature adult game in the style of Game of Thrones or The Black Company." They want to engage players emotionally by allowing them to build relationships with the game's characters and influence the outcome of the story through a series of conversation options.[8] The game eschews certain conventions of action-oriented computer role-playing games, such as focusing on the story of a young, lone hero, looting and buying items, or reloading a saved score after defeat. Instead, the developers wanted to tell the story of the player's caravan as a whole and encourage players to accept and deal with the consequences of defeat.[9] The first game of the saga revolves around the return of the Dredge, a warlike race that despises humans and is led by Bellower, a nearly invincible Dredge, who leads them on a warpath against humans and Varl. As a wandering army sent to fight the Dredge and find a weak point for the Bellower, the caravan must make many difficult decisions that will determine the fate of the humans and the Varl.