RPG · July 29, 2021

Banners of Ruin (2021)

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The Blackfoots have been dealt a mighty blow by the fearsome House Ender - you must infiltrate their defences and cut out the rot. Build your deck and fight your way through the city of Dawn's Point with card based combat and up to 6 members in your party. Characters loyal to your cause have a set of unique cards and abilities that may augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways. Defeat each of the elite opponents in your path to the city's Guard Captain and cripple the Enders at their core. You and your brethren may fall at this attempt, but there will always be others to carry the torch. House Blackfoot will remember, and they will never relent. Encounter a series of scenarios as you travel through the city which may help you, but at the expense of some moral ground. Build your deck by looting, buying and unlocking a myriad of cards. Beavers and Bears? Or Wolves and Weasels? Build a party of up to 6 throughout your run to battle your foes. 6 Races to explore with unique racial card pools and passives to choose from. Ding! Level up your characters to unlock talent cards and powerful passives that can drastically impact your strategy. Loot! Collect weapons and armour to bolster your ranks with interesting effects and abilities. Which way? Navigate the streets in a dynamic card driven campaign. Decisions. Reveal and engage in varying encounters on your journey which can have positive and negative outcomes. Fight an increasingly challenging array of enemies with exciting AI behaviours. Another failed attempt? Earn tokens after every run to unlock new cards and passives into the game to help you achieve victory.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Roguelike Deckbuilder · 337
  • Rogue-like · 323
  • Card Battler · 323
  • Card Game · 318
  • Difficult · 309
  • Turn-Based · 308
  • Deckbuilding · 308
  • Strategy · 304
  • Singleplayer · 295
  • Turn-Based Tactics · 294
  • Dungeon Crawler · 294
  • Atmospheric · 288
  • Rogue-lite · 282
  • RPG · 275
  • Turn-Based Strategy · 266

RPG releases from 2021

18 RPG titles launched in 2021 — top 6 by review volume.

Peer RPG titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in RPG

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume3.1k Steam reviewsTop 78% in RPG
Positive rating79% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 76%
Metacritic71/100Genre average 78 — top 78% of RPG titles
Engagement hours11 h averageTop 80% for session depth among RPG

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Russian
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Korean
  • Traditional Chinese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

79%Mostly Positive · 3.1k reviews

2.4k positive · 641 negative

Metacritic

71/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

2.2k

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

11h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

7h

Typical completion time

Achievements

16

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJul 29, 2021
DeveloperMonteBearo
PublisherGoblinz Publishing, Maple Whispering Limited
Base price$4.99 -75%
DLC / Add-ons4 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

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