Banished
Shining Rock Software LLC · 2014 · City Builder, Colony Sim, Strategy, Simulation, Survival
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About Banished
Guide a band of exiled settlers to build a thriving town from scratch by carefully managing resources, population, and the delicate balance between growth and survival. Master strategic resource allocation and population management across twenty occupations while adapting to unique map challenges, where every decision about land use, trade, and infrastructure directly impacts your town's fate.
The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource. They are born, grow older, work, have children of their own, and eventually die. Keeping them healthy, happy, and well-fed are essential to making your town grow. Building new homes is not enough—there must be enough people to move in and have families of their own.
Banished has no skill trees. Any structure can be built at any time, provided that your people have collected the resources to do so. There is no money. Instead, your hard-earned resources can be bartered away with the arrival of trade vessels. These merchants are the key to adding livestock and annual crops to the townspeople’s diet; however, their lengthy trade route comes with the risk of bringing illnesses from abroad.
There are twenty different occupations that the people in the city can perform from farming, hunting, and blacksmithing, to mining, teaching, and healing. No single strategy will succeed for every town. Some resources may be more scarce from one map to the next. The player can choose to replant forests, mine for iron, and quarry for rock, but all these choices require setting aside space into which you cannot expand.
The success or failure of a town depends on the appropriate management of risks and resources.
What Steam players say
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Players praise this addictive colony management game for its engaging resource management, steep learning curve that becomes rewarding once mastered, and strong modding community. Common complaints center on the game's abandonment by developers, lack of polish and updates, occasional mod compatibility issues, and a somewhat punishing early game where mistakes can force restart.
This is one of those, "it'll eat your life away" games, in the best way.
simple but time consuming game one wrong move and you may need to start from 0 again lol its quite fun....tip: dont play with disaster turn on
Honestly one of the best colony games out there, I actually think its one of the first. Also has a great modding community.
Great game. Now getting started could be a little hard when you get the hang of it. It is great. I wish they didn't abandon the game and polished a couple little things.Playing with mods is great but sometimes it crashes or it does not work. You got to be picky with the mods that you use because they are somewhat outdated.Very fun game. I love it so much. We need a sequel or updates to it.My library is great. I wish we could expand it.If you like resource management games that are somewhat realistic, this game is great. It will take some time to get the hang of it but when you do you have a lot of fun.Just be aware, as long as your population is growing, you just gotta expand, expand, expand.
Although starting a new game can be a bit difficult, once your town survives the first crisis wave, the game becomes much simpler and relaxing. It doesn't have a huge variety of buildings and parameters like other city builders, but that's the beauty of it. The small selection of buildings gives you freedom to play and shape your town, instead of chasing map coverage with various buildings or services and playing it like a chore. Overall, it's a good game even after all these years.
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