Banished

The best $20 I have spent in a LONG time.

I had very high hopes for this game. And I'm utterly disappointed. This is the first game I bough on GoG that I requested a refund for. Tried two gameplays on Medium, twice everybody died before Year 4. There's always not enough food, regardless of how many people you assign to foodmaking. And if you almost manage to feed everyone, they die of cold, because you run out of wood, for there is no one left to cut the trees down, as everyone is farming, fishing etc. Why can't people hunt/fish/gather berries without having to build them an overly expensive building? Why can't I plant the onions the gatherer found? Why on Earth can't I find any seeds for edible stuff in the wild? To say this game's designed is extremely flawed would be an understatement. Plus it has no story mode, no missions, no nothing. Just the excrutiating 'try and fail only to fail again' poor excuse for gameplay.

You basically spend a few failed starts and some time figuring out the simple rules of the "game". a) Houses are for growth only. Do NOT match the number of families with houses. b) Gatherer huts are how you feed everyone. Everything else is gravy. There is literally no way to lose once you figure that out. Start with a Boarding House(to slow growth) and a Gatherers Hut and that's it. You than spend all your time on 10x speed just passing time so you can grow your town. Very slowly. Feel totally let down that gog would actually sell this. They should have a toddler rating on this..

I bought this game on another platform in 2014, but saw GOG/Steam still charging an over the top price for a game that essentially hasn't received an update in ages. Not sure if the developer is even still around, (or alive) the last update was in October 2015! Buying this game now is a risk, 7 years an awful long time to have no patches whatsoever and a huge red flag.

(ir([]1c PERMANENTLY ALTERS THE BRAIN