Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord allows players to rise through the ranks, from little more than a peasant with a pitchfork to the crowned sovereign of a new Calradic Empire. Along that journey ...

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is a massive medieval sandbox ... culture as the fiefs they plan to conquer, as this avoids the -3 to loyalty penalty from having fiefs of a different culture.

As is the trend, Dustgrave is a fairly traditional party-based CRPG with real-time navigation, grid-based combat and a simple 'take 2-3 actions per turn' flow. There's some wrinkles in there ...