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Banished

Banished

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Genre
Indie · Simulation · Strategy
Gameplay
city builder · survival · management · colony sim
Pacing
Intense

About

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. 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 mercha

Why It's Fun

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Scarce resources, harsh environments, every decision can be fatal — it's not about winning, it's about how long you survive

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Every character has their own story, personality and needs — watch your colony grow from a handful of settlers into a thriving community

From barren land to a bustling city — watch roads form naturally, buildings grow organically, each city is your creation

Screenshots

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Steam Reviews

90%
Positive
23,136 positive25,696 total

GAME INFO

Developer
Shining Rock Software LLC
Released
Feb 18, 2014
Chinese
Multiplayer
IndieSimulationStrategy

What Players Say

Most helpful Steam reviews

Recommended👍 14 · 😂 0

Ever since release and to this day Banished remains my favorite city builder out there. There's just nothing quite like this one for me. tl:dr It's a solid 8.5/10 from me The game drops you in with a few recently exiled people and some supplies, maybe some houses and livestock depending on your difficulty setting, the objective is to build a thriving town in the wilderness you've been dumped into. It's complex to start and has a fairly steep learning curve, your first towns aren't likely to make it very much further than year 100, and getting beyond year 200 is a real challenge, at least unti…

Banished
90% positive
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