Mount & Blade II finished the week ending on April 5 as Steam's best-selling game, recording an all-time player peak of 248,216 (per SteamDB), far above the highs of revamped predecessor Mount & Blade: Warband (33,054 in 2014) it was approaching a similar tally on Twitch.TV with a release day high of 243,038 viewers (per SullyGnome).Ĭould Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord release on console, and if so, when? Once out in the fictional lands of Calradia and travelling among its rising factions, they can trade goods between cities, train in the various arts of combat, take part in arena tournaments and build their following by recruiting assistants, clan members and entire armies, as the call of massed battle beckons.

Players can inform not only their character's skills and abilities but also their entire life story, decision by decision. Launched for PC on March 30 through Steam's Early Access programme, the sequel – actually an early Middle Ages prequel – Bannerlord blends the storyline quests of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, battlefield command of Total War and fashion choices of Destiny 2 thanks to some gleefully anachronistic sartorial combinations. The successes of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (2012) and Mordhau (2019) proved that appetites for middle ages sword and shield combat never really went away. Its single-player mode encompasses detailed character creation, arena tournaments, trading, and thrilling massed battles multiplayer offers a balancing act between skillfully co-ordinated siege assaults and spectacularly doomed chaos.Īfter 12 years, fans of the original Mount & Blade have an official sequel to get immersed in with Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. There's no social distancing on a medieval battlefield, as players pile into Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.

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