Posted on: October 2, 2025
aliz_
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i just want to rate it
thank you for such great 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: October 12, 2025
pakojo
Verified ownerGames: 138 Reviews: 1
Excelent game, still the best
Relaxing, deep, challenging. If you want to disconnect try this one.
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Posted on: October 14, 2025
Lancelor24
Verified ownerGames: 211 Reviews: 1
Brilliant!!
Great game even in 2025 highly recommended
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Posted on: October 23, 2025
cowper
Verified ownerGames: 84 Reviews: 2
Chill
It's a very chill city-builder without combat. The difficulty comes in figuring out how to expand without overextending and starving your population by accident. Great for the type who sees an unspoiled wilderness and loves planning to spoil it. I've spent hundreds of hours in this game so I'd say it's worth buying at full price.
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Posted on: October 25, 2025
exmtlbtch
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 7
The original town survival manager
Better bulk up on clothes and food for the winter... - Such a classic. It's definitely missing some spice and variety compared to what's on offer now, but it's all around a fun little town manager. I just wish this game got a sequel, or an expansion.
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