The Banner Saga Post-funding Update #52: Mobile Versions Update

With the 52nd Kickstarter update for The Banner Saga, the developers at Stoic Studio let us know that the game is out on iOS and that they’re working to announce a release date for the Android version within next week or so. Apparently they tried to have the two versions release simultaneously, but it just didn’t work out. Additionally, the mobile versions apparently include a few improvements they intend to port back to the PC and Mac versions of the game:

Just a quick update to let you know that we have fulfilled our Kickstarter promise to bring you the game to mobile platforms! We are really excited to tell you that today we released The Banner Saga on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPad Touch. For all you Android users, don’t worry, we are actively working on that version and should have a release date for your within the next week or so. We tried everything we could to release them simultaneously but it just didn’t work out the way we wanted it to.

We knew early on that this game would work really well on mobile devices and even though it’s the same game, the experience is somehow even better e.g. tilting the device allows you to get the parallax effect, you can now zoom in and out of travel sequences and even get up close to the action during battle. We hope to retrofit the PC/Mac versions with the upgrades we were able to achieve for the mobile launch.