Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-16
- Exciting and engaging battles
- Mods significantly enhance gameplay experience
- Freedom and diverse gameplay activities
- Rich, detailed, and immersive world
- Frequent crashes and stability issues
- Repetitive gameplay and lack of innovation
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 289,444
- Positive
- 253,87987.7%
- Negative
- 35,56512.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 12,462,943
- Estimated revenue
- $623,022,521
- Game price
- $50
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1530.54%
- Estimated copies lost
- 6,588
- Estimated revenue lost
- $329,334
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1540.5% Avg playtime 1.1h | 960.3% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 3,89713.8% Avg playtime 337.3h | 24,00085.3% Avg playtime 297.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 12.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 69.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 517.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,237.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
28,147 total
Organic purchasers21,42076.1%
Voted up: 86%
Key activations6,72723.9%
Voted up: 85%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
28,147 total
First impression0-2h4351.55%
Voted up: 51%
Mid game2-10h2,4058.54%
Voted up: 85%
Late game10-20h2,3408.31%
Voted up: 90%
Endgame20h+22,96781.6%
Voted up: 86%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
88.9%
Global baseline 85.6%
72 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 289,444 total.