Exile
JD7 Games · 2025 · City Builder, Strategy, Colony Sim, Simulation, Survival
PC
Mixed69% · 13 📉 Recent reviews down 58%
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About Exile
In Exile, you lead a band of displaced settlers, cast out into an unforgiving land where only resourcefulness and resilience will secure a future. It's your decisions—the paths you clear, the shelters you raise, the hope you kindle—that will determine whether this small village endures or fades into the wild. Through each season, you’ll be the one deciding how your village survives, adapts, and eventually thrives. Will you lead them to prosperity—or watch as the seasons take their toll? Your choices carry weight. Neglect a firewood supply, and your people might freeze. Let the food run low, and they’ll grow weak and desperate. Disease can spread quickly if you overlook medicine or sanitation. But care well, and you can build schools, libraries, farms, even workshops to craft tools and books that pass knowledge through generations. Every decision steers your village down a different path—one of hardship, innovation, or quiet resilience. These are your people, not just for a season but for generations to come. As they grow, learn, and pass on their knowledge, your village becomes more than a place. It becomes a lineage. Shaped by the land and strengthened by your choices, their story unfolds in countless ways as their legacy deepens with every passing year.Key Features:
- Smart Systems at Scale: Built to handle villages of hundreds and beyond, the simulation remains responsive no matter how large your population grows. Villagers make practical decisions finding the nearest food, shelter, or task without issue. Unless they’re one of the drunk ones. Hard to say where they meant to go.
- Time and Atmosphere, Your Way: Set the pace of your village life with full control over time—pause, slow down, or speed things up as needed, and the soundtrack follows. And with a curated 40-track dynamic soundtrack, custom-composed, the mood shifts with the seasons. Prefer a calmer experience? You can turn off dynamic changes—or silence the music altogether for peaceful focus. Skip any track, and it won’t return for hours.
- Playable Topography: From flat plains to rugged mountainsides, navigate the challenges of various landscapes. Every rise, fall, and curve of the land will shape your village's layout and growth whether carving a way through stone, spanning a gap, or stepping your way uphill..
- Seasons-linked Day & Night Cycle: Scorching summers and harsh winters aren’t all your villagers must adapt to. From golden sunrises to quiet twilight, each day offers a subtle reminder that the world is alive beside you. Trees blush with autumn reds, snow creeps in overnight, and spring mornings bring fresh green to the fields—nothing stays still for long.
- Adaptive Challenges: Not only is it the unpredictable winters your villagers must brace for, but sickness sweeping through your village, food shortages, the threat of raging fire, along with the occasional drunk slipping on ice or vanishing into the mud, and more. The land is as harsh as it is beautiful.
- Rich, Evolving World: Your village exists within a truly living world. As you build and expand, the land responds. Overfish a lake and the fish may vanish. Birds follow favored migration paths, and they too are vulnerable. Every creature you see—whether it's a rabbit darting through the brush or a monarch drifting past—is part of the ecosystem, not just scenery. Hunt them, live alongside them, or let them be—but understand this: anything that moves can disappear if you're not careful.
- Resource Management & Crafting: Gather raw materials from the land around you, craft tools and structures, and use every resource wisely.
- Exploration & Discovery: The world beyond your village holds many secrets and opportunities. Explore untamed wilderness, trade with others, and expand your village to great new heights.
- Robust Save and Load System: Jump back into your village in seconds with near-instant load times and smooth auto-saving. Whether you're planning every move or playing on the go, your progress is always preserved and ready when you are.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
If you are looking for better Banished, you are not alone. But you've come to the wrong place. I just can't get past the UI. The game ran smooth though.31 found this helpful
I appreciate that the game is trying something new with the UI but I just cannot get behind it. UI just doesn't feel cozy at all. Feels poky. But my biggest beef is that I can't pause/unpause the game with the space bar. No way to reconfigure hotkeys at all. My low playtime is because I just don't do city builders without space = pause/unpause.13 found this helpful
Had a quick game, it has good base ideas, needs work; Has the feel of Banished, but needs better menu's; The graphics of the menu's can be confusing to some, as they blend in together, however, the graphics of them are pretty in-itself. I didn't find it too difficult to use. There needs options to view all products rather than the staple 4 only, we need to be able to address shortages appropriately by shuffling workers about. Guessing isn't optimal. I have no idea how many coats I had which has resulted in deaths of people, which could have been avoided, had I had access to what I owned in regards to wool/hemp > coats. I like little menus with that information. I like to see my people in lists, so i can move them about without having to go-to every building and removing/adding. Lemme open a pin-able screen :) Mining injuries are basically constant on balanced, couldn't imagine heavy load..Maybe fix that and or add a way to upgrade for safety reasons? Maybe that's the schooling, which i hadn't yet built in my time playing. The seasons moves quickly, so winter isn't too bad. But I do play on x8. No tutorial; For those new to these type games, they will struggle. I knew how to…6 found this helpful
Really enjoy the game... but I've been having problems with it crashing.... which pretty much makes it unplayable. Also, it's really odd to start the game in the year 2025. I'd also like to see something like scientific research offered... so you can continue to upgrade. Otherwise, once you hit a certain point, it's kind of like... eh, why continue. It's repetitive. Good for a few hours of play, but then you definitely hit a wall. It also needs some work regarding the constant crashing. For these reasons, I can't recommend this game at the moment.4 found this helpful
This game is fun and super playable for an alpha. The game ran fine on my midrange PC, and after a few tries I had a bustling town of 35 citizens! I can't wait to see what it's like with more depth after the developers continue adding onto this. Some of the mechanics could use a bit more explanation. I'd like to see a discord for the game so share feedback tips and tricks! Once I built the town hall, the game statistics really flowed. I liked the year over year production stats; maybe a history graph would be cool too!2 found this helpful
No impressed with this game one little bit the gameplay is dull and the lack of tutorial leave you scratching your heal and the whole system is poor i gave it a go and i did not enjoy the game one bit as a fan of city builders and colony sims this game is lacking and the control panel leaves a lot to be desired1 found this helpful
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