Posted on: July 11, 2025
LeVasileios
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Amazing!!!
Best, unique, city-building game!
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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. 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!
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:
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
Time to beat
15 hMain
32 h Main + Sides
90 h Completionist
34.5 h All Styles
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IGN
8.3/10
New city-builder Banished is the most fun you'll have simulating famine all year.
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8/10
If you're into city building games, this is one to check out.
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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: July 22, 2025
JeffintheWest
Verified ownerGames: 169 Reviews: 4
Pleasant But Challenging
This game is a pleasant little city-builder without a lot of outside distractions in the form of enemy invasions or anything, however, despite the lack of foreign complications, it's a fine line you walk between feeding, housing and employing all of your citizens and avoiding death from starvation and disease. Timing is everything in this game, with the player needing to establish his priorities right out of the gate in assigning workers, deciding what needs to be built first, and so on. As new buildings, pastures, orchards and farm fields are set up, it is vital to man them intelligently in order to get the most out of your crops and laborers, and then, during the winter, you need to hastily reassign your labor to new tasks, such as hunting, fishing and gathering in order to survive the winter. Every step of the way you are managing resources and deciding just what you need in order to keep your community going. As time goes on, you begin working on better ways to gather resources, such as quarries, mines, tool makers, clothing makers, and so on, and meanwhile trying to balance that with trade, a tavern, even a church and graveyard. There are a LOT of variables to dal with, and you need to be clever and adept in assigning workers and projects so you can continue to grow your community with "just in time" construction and worker assignment. All in all very challenging without being too stressful.
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Posted on: July 23, 2025
Candyking2010
Verified ownerGames: 8 Reviews: 1
too fast stravation
you almost need to only focus on food
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Posted on: August 14, 2025
Artz3
Verified ownerGames: 56 Reviews: 1
Draws you in....and then....
It seems to me that the designers of this game have traps set so that when you think you're doing OK, the bottom drops out. GET LOTS OF FOOD !!! Watch your walking paths! Don't let your people walk into the boonies....build bridges or they'll starve to death. It just seems like the software has it in for you. You think you're doing everything right...then your population starts dying of....who knows? Still, it's help me kill lots of hours of time....and it's generally been lots of fun. Good Luck! Artz3 F
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Posted on: August 17, 2025
kintantorr
Verified ownerGames: 56 Reviews: 2
Accurate logistics.
Nearly eveyone starved. Can't fish fast enough, or hunt fast enough. Once you get the balance right it is fun, though.
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