Mount & Blade: Warband
Medieval sandbox action RPG about raising armies and claiming a throne
TaleWorlds Entertainment · Released Mar 31, 2010
- Reviews
- Overwhelmingly Positive
- 98% of 172K
- Recent reviews
- Overwhelmingly Positive
- 97% of 274 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 2,577
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 2 months ago
- Jul 2, 2026
Free demo available, 1 playing it now: get the demo.
Metacritic: 78/100 (critic reviews)
What is Mount & Blade: Warband?
An open-world medieval action RPG and strategy sandbox where you recruit a warband, travel across Calradia, fight alongside your troops, and build a realm. The campaign lets you rule a faction and recruit vassals, while multiplayer includes several competitive battle modes.
For you if...
- +you want direct medieval combat mixed with army strategy
- +you enjoy open-ended campaigns about conquest, trade, and politics
- +you like multiplayer battles and a broad mod scene
Not for you if...
- −you dislike slow, grind-heavy sandbox progression
- −you expect modern controls and a gentle learning curve
What players say
98% of 172,163 reviews are positive · 97% of 274 in the last 30 days
Players praise the direct medieval combat, open-ended campaign, troop progression, and broad mod scene. Common complaints include grinding, poor troop and campaign AI, dated controls, crashes or launch failures on some modern systems, and late-game bugs that can prevent campaign completion.
Screenshots and trailer
Mount & Blade: Warband system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows® XP
- Processor
- Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD 2.5 GHz
- Graphics
- 3D graphics card with 64MB RAM
- Memory
- 512MB RAM
- Storage
- 100 MB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows XP or greater
- Processor
- Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, ATI Radeon 9600, or better
- Memory
- 1GB RAM
- Storage
- 100MB available space
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 80
- Steam features
- Workshop, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Turkish.
Tags
- Medieval
- RPG
- Open World
- Strategy
- Sandbox
- Multiplayer
- Action
- Moddable
- Military
- Adventure
- Horses
- Singleplayer
- Realistic
- First-Person
- Historical
- Third Person
Recent updates
- Jul 2, 2026 · Viking Conquest 2.072
- Sep 2, 2024 · Viking Conquest 2.069
- Apr 25, 2023 · Viking Conquest 2.064
- Nov 16, 2021 · Viking Conquest 2.060
- Oct 9, 2019 · Viking Conquest 2.054
2 DLC available.
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