Fit check
Is Banners of Ruin worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who enjoy turn-based card combat and deck construction
- Strategy fans who want party management for up to six characters
- RPG players interested in repeated runs with persistent unlocks
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking real-time combat rather than turn-based encounters
- Players who prefer a fixed campaign instead of repeated attempts with run-based progression
- Players looking for a broad open-world adventure rather than a route through one city
Our take on Banners of Ruin
The run-based structure trades campaign continuity for repeatable attempts: defeat ends the current effort, while tokens carry some progression into later runs. The card system also makes character and equipment choices central, leaving less room for action-focused combat.
What is Banners of Ruin?
Lead a party through Dawn's Point in a campaign of turn-based, card-based battles against House Ender.
A run supports up to six characters, with six races offering distinct card pools and passive abilities. Build the deck by looting, purchasing, and unlocking cards, then improve characters with talent cards, equipment, and level-based passives. A card-driven route presents encounters with beneficial or harmful consequences, while enemy groups use varied AI behaviours and grow more challenging. Each attempt ends in success or defeat; completed runs grant tokens that unlock additional cards and passives for later attempts. The campaign follows a series of scenarios and elite opponents leading toward the city's Guard Captain.
How Banners of Ruin plays
- 01Six-member parties
- Recruit characters from six races, each with different cards and passive effects.
- 02Card deck building
- Add cards through exploration, purchases, and unlocks during a run.
- 03Character progression
- Leveling grants talent cards and passive abilities that alter strategic choices.
- 04Equipment effects
- Looted weapons and armor provide additional effects and abilities for the party.
- 05Branching encounters
- A card-driven route presents scenarios whose outcomes can benefit or disadvantage the party.
- 06Run-based unlocks
- Tokens earned after attempts add cards and passives to the available pool.
Banners of Ruin compared to similar games
Banners of Ruin combines party management for up to six characters with card-based combat, racial card pools, equipment, and a city campaign. Shogun Showdown also uses turn-based deck building, but focuses on positioning, attack tiles, combos, and facing the Shogun rather than managing a multi-character party through branching encounters.
Banners of Ruin: platforms & release
Is Banners of Ruin worth it?
It is worth it if: players who enjoy turn-based card combat and deck construction. Skip it if: players seeking real-time combat rather than turn-based encounters.
Where can I download Banners of Ruin?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Banners of Ruin's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Banners of Ruin on?
Windows only.
