Mount & Blade: Warband Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-16
- Extensive mod support and active community.
- Highly engaging, immersive, and enjoyable gameplay.
- Freedom to choose own path.
- Large-scale battles and warfare.
- Repetitive missions and lack of central narrative.
- AI behavior and combat mechanics issues.
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 170,809
- Positive
- 166,91797.7%
- Negative
- 3,8922.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 11,821,874
- Estimated revenue
- $236,319,261
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 230.35%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,592
- Estimated revenue lost
- $31,824
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 230.4% Avg playtime 0.8h | 731.1% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 1732.6% Avg playtime 342.1h | 6,26195.9% Avg playtime 238.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 18.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 88.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,553.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
6,530 total
Organic purchasers5,27680.8%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations1,25419.2%
Voted up: 97%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
6,530 total
First impression0-2h1522.33%
Voted up: 82%
Mid game2-10h95414.6%
Voted up: 96%
Late game10-20h68410.5%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+4,74072.6%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
90.9%
Global baseline 97.0%
11 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 170,809 total.