Banished
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6About 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. 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
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One could argue this game started a revolution in the genre
One could argue this game started a revolution in the genre. It still holds up because the mechanics are at the core of thousands of titles that have been released since. I would suggest Banished to someone just starting with city builders. Figure out what you really like about the genre and go from there. You like building cities? Cities Skylines. You like the environment? Farthest Frontier. You like the mechanics but don't like the grid layout? Foundations. You like logistics? any Anno title really. You just want a modern Banished? Settlement Survival. ..on Mars? Surviving Mars. ..on a space ship? Space Haven. And that's just my library. Worth full price unless the aged graphics bother you. Consider grabbing it on sale, though, it's a classic.
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay5.0
- Story4.0
- Value4.5
This is not really a review of the game but more a message of thanks
This is not really a review of the game but more a message of thanks. This is my dads account and he sadly passed away this week at the age of 79. He loved this game and would always be sat here with a cup of tea sucking on a mint humbug as I am doing now trying to write this. This was never called Banished in his house it was just simply his game and every evening he could be found drinking his tea grumbling about how all his people were lazy and were starving and cold. I will miss the notification popping up saying he was playing so much. So yes I would recommend this game, His game it kept him very happy for 12,731 hours of his life and if they have computers up there no doubt he will be there playing his game with a cup of tea and a mint humbug. Thank you
- Graphics4.5
- Gameplay4.0
- Story4.0
- Value4.5
Banished is what many city/village building games wish they could be when they grow up
Banished is what many city/village building games wish they could be when they grow up. No barbarians screaming at the gates, not a zombie in sight, just good solid building with intelligent villagers, clever mechanics, and thoughtful details. It's easy, it's relaxing, it's soothing. Until the realities of colony life bite you in the backside! Banished is addictive. :D
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay4.0
- Story4.0
- Value3.5
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