The Banner Saga 3 Reviews

The Banner Saga 3 is ranked in the 91st percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
9 / 10
Jul 25, 2018

TBS 3 is a truly special game and the perfect send off for this epic saga. The evolution of Stoic as a studio is apparent with a work that is truly timeless. No doubt about it, The Banner Saga is full of many great gaming moments, many of which are in this concluding episode, and they will stay with me for years to come.

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9 / 10
Jul 25, 2018

The Banner Saga 3 is a revelatory experience, at long last presenting answers to the questions that many have had since Rook first rallied clansmen to his banner in Skogr.

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10 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2018

The Banner Saga 3 is the culmination of years of work and provides an absolutely perfect ending to one of the most brilliant gaming trilogies of all time.

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Jul 25, 2018

"Hello darkness, my old friend."

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ACG
Top Critic
Buy
Jul 26, 2018
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9 / 10
Jul 26, 2018

Stoic's final game in The Banner Saga Trilogy is finally here, and for those that have followed these characters' stories for the first two games, The Banner Saga 3 will finally offer some closure.

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Unscored
Jul 26, 2018

The Banner Saga 3 is a dark, enthralling end to one of the best stories in gaming, a story that needs to be experienced by all.

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Edmond Tran
Top Critic
8 / 10
Jul 26, 2018

Smart adjustments to mechanics make the act of playing the Banner Saga series finale feel as suspenseful as the story it tells.

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8.8 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2018

If you've played the first two, The Banner Saga 3 is impossible to ignore. In this final chapter, everything is broken and mended and broken again. I was never sure if there would be--or even could be--any kind of happily ever after to this massive mythology Stoic Studios has built.

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9 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2018

A fittingly bombastic end to one of the best tactical RPG series on PS4, The Banner Saga 3 closes the book on a trilogy that fans of strategy and epic, sprawling stories should embrace immediately.

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90 / 100
Jul 26, 2018

A daring, exciting and bleakly powerful payoff that handsomely rewards your investment in its characters.

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9 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2018

The Banner Saga 3 demands your attention, its story grabbing hold of your emotions and never letting go. As a climax to one of the better modern trilogies in gaming, The Banner Saga 3 is simply magnificent.

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8 / 10
Jul 26, 2018

The Banner Saga 3 closes the book on an incredible saga of turn-based action and dark, haunting storytelling. It's hard to make player choices and branching narratives successfully payoff over the course of three games, but Stoic Studios have done just that. It's a shame that they never tried to revamp or update the sluggish combat speed along the way, but that's a small price to pay for a once in a lifetime narrative experience like this.

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8 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2018

The Banner Saga 3 wraps up its six-years-in-the-making epic in poignant, gripping style. The game's tactical battles still have some issues, but their rough edges have been sanded down to the point they no longer detract from the game's stellar writing. The Banner Saga 3 deserves to be held high as a prime example of both video game storytelling and a crowdfunded project done right.

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Recommended
Jul 26, 2018

Stately, vivid and tragic, this brooding epic finally reaches its climax.

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GameSkinny
Emily (Pokeflute)
Top Critic
Jul 26, 2018

The Banner Saga 3 is a journey worth taking -- and a worthy concluding chapter to a winding, fantastic tale.

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NEOsite
redakcja
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2018

The Banner Saga 3 is a great ending for the trilogy, yet one not without some flaws. Fans of the tactical games with important choices to make won't be disappointed.

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9 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2018

A fitting end to the trilogy, and fans of the series so far will not be disappointed with the new gameplay features or the excellent storytelling.

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9 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2018

Like closing the final chapter on a thousand-page-long fantasy novel, The Banner Saga 3 delivers a dark and thrilling conclusion to remember. Though at times it might prove to be a bit more of a challenge than some might expect, The Banner Saga 3 is the culmination of Stoic Studio's four-year-long journey through a tense and memorable world that's entirely worth seeing through to the end. While I'm sad to see The Banner Saga series come to a close with its third and final act, The Banner Saga 3 finishes it all in a brutal and brilliant fashion. The story may be over, but The Banner Saga‘s world is one that I will surely yearn to come back to.

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8 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2018

The Banner Saga 3 closes the epic journey created by Stoic. However, its condition of being the ending makes the game a constant rush and, in the end, the decisions and climaxes lose their purpose.

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