Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player can buy and drink wine and ale in taverns and trade both as trade goods; no other drugs appear.
Realistic melee and ranged medieval combat against human soldiers with blood spray and ragdoll death animations; no dismemberment or lingering gore.
War, sacking of settlements, imprisonment, and the option to execute captured enemy lords are part of the campaign.
The player can turn to banditry, raid villages, and loot caravans, committing acts against settlements and travelers.
Occasional mild crude words in dialogue and text such as 'bastard' and 'piss'.
Horses ridden into battle can be wounded and killed as a combat mechanic.
Who can reach your kid
What it is
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a large medieval sandbox that blends action combat with strategy and role-playing. You build a character, recruit and lead an army, trade and craft goods, manage diplomacy and marriage, and fight in massive real-time battles and castle sieges using swords, axes, bows and cavalry. Combat against human soldiers is realistic and shows blood and ragdoll death animations, though without gore or dismemberment. The world includes raiding and burning villages, taking prisoners, and the option to execute captured lords, plus the ability to turn outlaw and loot caravans and settlements. Alcohol appears as wine and ale the player can buy, drink in taverns and trade, and dialogue carries occasional mild crude language. There are no in-app purchases. An optional multiplayer mode lets players fight in team battles with in-game text chat, and the game has a very active modding community with user-made content available through Steam Workshop and other sites.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as the ambition of a rising warlord in a collapsing empire, so conquest, raiding, and even executing rivals are presented as pragmatic tools of power rather than praised or condemned; the fictional setting draws on the historical Migration Period without magic or the supernatural, and the player is free to act as an honorable ruler or a ruthless bandit.
Details
- Developer
- TaleWorlds Entertainment
- Publisher
- TaleWorlds Entertainment
- Released
- Oct 25, 2022
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