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Banished

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4.4/5

( 312 Reviews )

4.4

312 Reviews

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Banished
Description
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. Kee...
Genre:
Strategy - Real-time - Historical
Tags:
Indie, Strategy, Classic, Management, Open World, show 12 more... Sandbox, Historical, Real-Time, Survival, Difficult, Resource Management, Relaxing, Medieval, Procedural Generation, City builder, RTS, Cozy
Critics reviews
35 %
Recommend
IGN
8.3/10
Game Informer
8/10
PC Gamer
70/100
User reviews

4.4/5

( 312 Reviews )

4.4

312 Reviews

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Product details
2014, Shining Rock Software, ...
System requirements
Vista / 7 / 8 / 10, 2 GHz Intel Dual Core, 512 MB RAM, DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with 512 M...
Time to beat
15 hMain
32 h Main + Sides
90 h Completionist
34.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Description
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, teaching, and healing. You can choose to replant forests, mine for iron, and quarry for rock, and more!
  • Build a city with any layout you want with almost no restriction on when, what, and where you build.
  • Keep the population happy and healthy by providing them with food and warm shelter.
  • Watch the town grow as you assign 20 different jobs to build buildings, grow food, craft tools and clothing, and more!

Banished © 2014 Shining Rock Software LLC. All Rights Reserved.

System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Recommended system requirements:

Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

Recommended system requirements:

Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
15 hMain
32 h Main + Sides
90 h Completionist
34.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Strategy - Real-time - Historical
Tags:
Indie, Strategy, Classic, Management, Open World, show 12 more... Sandbox, Historical, Real-Time, Survival, Difficult, Resource Management, Relaxing, Medieval, Procedural Generation, City builder, RTS, Cozy
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
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Company:
Shining Rock Software / Shining Rock Software
Size:
122 MB
Links:
Forum discussion
Game features
Cloud saves
Overlay
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
Critics reviews
74
Top Critic Average
35 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
IGNby Rowan Kaiser
8.3/10
New city-builder Banished is the most fun you'll have simulating famine all year.
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Game Informerby Daniel Tack
8/10
If you're into city building games, this is one to check out.
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PC Gamerby Andy Chalk
70/100
A nice change of pace for city-builders, but it loses momentum once the immediate urgency of survival goes away.
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Posted on: May 16, 2025

seventysixplus

Verified owner

Games: 52 Reviews: 1

This Game is Fantastic

It's both chill and a stresser and different times. Mods are great and really extend replay value.

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Posted on: May 29, 2025

hhornblower

Verified owner

Games: 102 Reviews: 1

amazig but old game.

i love this game, its amazig, tho it did take some time to learn how to sucseeed. The merchants sell seds for way too much. i recomed using the tortoriald, or findig an explainer on youtube. still, this game is amazig and i could (and do) play it for houers.

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Posted on: June 3, 2025

Barnell

Verified owner

Games: 582 Reviews: 17

Slow City Builder

This is a slow city builder. No fighting or actions. Just building and collecting reasorces.

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Posted on: June 20, 2025

jessos84

Games: 60 Reviews: 2

Pleasant relaxing game

Years 1-4 of the game may be quite intense as you learn the game (Your people seem to randomly starve or wander off into a blizzard, or you realize too late that you've used up all the stone with no hope of obtaining more). However, as you become familiar, the difficulty curve drops significantly and it becomes more of a relaxed village-builder with resource management. The base game isn't terribly deep and the only real goal is to keep the village alive and growing, but it's pleasant, nice to look at and has calm music.

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Posted on: July 3, 2025

JackSmith.775

Verified owner

Games: 119 Reviews: 5

Nice little gem

Vanilla version is nice sweet and quickly done, though I don't really feel like playing it again. However... I am going to mod the humpback whale out og it and see where that takes me :D

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