The Banner Saga: Factions - free to play right now!

The Banner Saga was one of the big swathe of Kickstarter projects to get funded early last year. Reaching a staggering seven times its $100,000 goal, it was developed by Stoic - a trio of ex-Bioware developers who decided to branch out and make a mature tactical RPG set in Viking Culture - with music by Austin Wintory.


They were inspired by FFT so you know it will be good.

The Banner Saga: Factions is the team's combat system, built into a free to play multiplayer game. Naturally, some backers were a bit pissed - The entire game was supposed to be released in November last year, and now it's February and they are launching one small component of the game. As the developers explained in one of their Project Updates however, they were too optimistic with their time frame - and the game was increased in size sevenfold due to the extra funding received. Factions is Stoic's way of giving the backers - and now the world - the chance to check The Banner Saga out early.

You can grab the game right now on Steam (it's not appearing for some people, but if you 'Play' it through that link it will add the game to your Steam Library.) and I definitely think you should give it a shot. Personally however, I am much more excited for the single player game than the multiplayer. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!