Mount & Blade has a very minimal plot, most of which is up to the player. Although certain things are constant, such as towns and kings, the player's own story is chosen at character creation, where the player can be, for example, a child of an impoverished noble or a street urchin. This has little impact besides starting skills and dialogue (e.g. a lord may treat the player better if they are a nobleman rather than a steppe child.) Player choices also make an impact on dialogue; if the player spends time raiding caravans, a lord may treat them as criminals, as opposed to a player who spends time doing tasks for a king or trading items. There is no overarching storyline, however, so the player is left to their own devices.
Includes:
Mount and Blade: Warband (2010)
Mount and Blade: Warband - Napoleonic Wars (2012)
Mount and Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest (2014)
More Info
Developer: Snowberry Connection
Publisher: Snowball Studios
Genre: Action / Add-on (Standalone) / RPG
Language: EN / Multi10
Treatment: Not required
Release Date: 2010-2014
Minimum System Requirements
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD 2.5 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
OS: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
Video Card: Graphics card (128 MB+) (does not support integrated graphics card)
Free Disk Space: 1.2 GB