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Banished

Banished is a city building game where you control a group of exiled people who are restarting their lives in the wilderness. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople work, build, get older, have children, and eventually die. Keeping them healthy, happy, and fed are essential to making a successful town grow. Any structure can be built at any time, provided that your people have collected the resources to do so. There are many occupations that the people can perform from farming, hunting, and blacksmithing, to fishing, teach

Release date
February 18, 2014
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Shining Rock Software
Publisher
Shining Rock Software
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★ 8.8/10GOG · 1,556 ratings
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Most helpful8

★ 5 / 5
Who knew? I've been watching this one for a while now. It's an excellent building sim, especially considering it was designed by one guy. Just…
★ 5 / 5
In this game there's no enemy to fight with, no distant lands to conquer, no overly complicated rules. Just slow-paced building of your settlement, done…
★ 5 / 5
It suprises me that this game can be so much better then most city managing sims I have seen in the last years. The interface…
★ 5 / 5
I have been following Luke's project for the last couple years; he would always share the latest on development on his blog. He posted videos…
★ 5 / 5
Without the distractions of fighting an enemy or conquering territory, this game boils down to a question of survival. It begs the question: "What can…
★ 3 / 5
Banished has the foundation of a great game. On that foundation, it builds a ranch house - strong and functional, but limited and sometimes rather…
★ 2 / 5
While the game is entertaining, it is in sore need of an update before I'd consider giving it more stars. Some way to ensure the…
★ 4 / 5
What you will get: - Town builder game with quite a bit of depth and a focus on surviving. The environment is quite hostile in…

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★ 4 / 5
You need to use your small initial resources on the correct upgrades, or you'll lose a lot a villagers.
★ 5 / 5
I hadn't played Banished in years and came back to it recently, Always a lot of fun rediscovering everything. Still a great game. It's simple,…
★ 5 / 5
game good, i play and then i keep playing cause i know my ghost town will bounce back after i take on too many nomads
★ 5 / 5
A delightfully flawless and charming 'Sim City'ish' game set in medieval environment. Has remained one of my favorites for more than a decade.

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