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Banished

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4.4/5

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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...
Critics reviews
35 %
Recommend
IGN
8.3/10
Game Informer
8/10
PC Gamer
70/100
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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
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:

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

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 details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
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Size:
122 MB

Game features

Languages
English
audio
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Posted on: February 12, 2022

gogglybear

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 2

Feels unfinished and barebone

I feel like i was tricked to buy this game and honestly quite betrayed. i dont see any point, there are no goals. once you get your first colony running (a few hrs max) thats basically it. done. there are no levels or maps. no progression. a tiny bit of balance and resource management and you are good, i dont see the challenge or anything really. its not even close to the complexity like the first anno game... only a very limited amount of buildings and even with those, theres not really any enjoyment or sense of progression. i absolutely do not understand why this game gets so much good reviews. it feels like still in early access. even the visuals vare very very basic. it absolutely feels pointless, and the price is ridiculous. you can get warcraft 2 for half the price wich is an infinetly better game. or stardey valley, or city skylines or even some old games like settler 2 and sim city 2...


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Posted on: February 23, 2014

Harlekino

Verified owner

Games: 376 Reviews: 1

Good game

Good game and congratulations to the program! Not a mindless game and great time :)


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Posted on: February 21, 2014

Dreambreaker

Verified owner

Games: 316 Reviews: 1

only 2 issues

only 2 issues i have with this game is that medicine seems to be a little hard to find / locate and if you alt + tab out for any reason, you have to quit and reload the game due to a graphical glitch. out side of that... 4 days straight playing and counting :D


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Posted on: October 25, 2024

gcollection

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Games: 32 Reviews: 2

Boring

Meaningless and boring.


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Posted on: April 8, 2017

joelandsonja

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Games: 524 Reviews: 129

Needs Improvement

There are many aspects of this game that I really enjoyed, such as the atmosphere, music and overall gameplay and managerial system, but there are a lot of things that I found extremely frustrating. Here's a list of things that I think need to be improved: - Stone/Iron/Wood collectors should pick up the load they just gathered instead of just walking away. - There should be a better system for expanding the population of your town. So far, every game that I've played ends in my population decreasing to the point of no return, despite having plenty of housing. It's also frustrating to spend so much time and energy building the town hall, but you rarely ever get any nomads visiting the town in order to help increase your population. - The characters always seem to be cold, despite the fact that they live in stone houses, with firewood, wearing warm clothing, in the middle of summer. I don't get it. - The command system seems to pick and chose which tasks to perform, despite specifically telling your workers to perform a certain task. Sometimes you have to wait endlessly for a worker to move one simple piece or iron from the stockpile to your building project. That being said, I would recommend giving this game a try if you enjoy a good building sim.


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