Posted on: May 10, 2019
hodgicus
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: 47 Avis: 4
A Fine and Thoughtful Game
I've spent about a hundred hours in Banished since purchasing it here last year. The only issue I have with the game is that I cannot switch away from it and switch back successfully. I've tried it windowed and fullscreen, checked my antivirus settings, listed the app carefully in my OS games list; nothing I know to do has worked. It runs perfectly on my "minimum requirements" laptop (with Intel graphics, for Pete's sake) as long as it keeps the focus. Switch away and it croaks. This is not a minor problem, and it would cost most games a star or two from me. I'm sticking with five stars because I think most of its reviewers on GoG have failed to understand the game on its own terms. This is a great game. We come to Banished prepared for a resource race, or a build race, or a kill your neighbor race: Banished is not a race. Banished is a tiny colony in a temperate forest; a colony that is going to die unless the player is thoughtful, observant, and skilled at survival planning and directing the effort to forestall hunger, cold, and disease. There are no bad guys to kill, and plenty of resources to scoop up and use, but if you do not play this game well, you will lose. Banished is elegant, beautifully drawn, and thoughtfully designed. Each map is a small and simple world, but no maps are easy: the Easy setting is hard. Timing is crucial. Planning is as essential as its requirements are obscure. Before you build a tailor shop to make winter coats, it would be wise to know what coats are made of, but the game is not going to tell you that. You can give orders that will take game years to complete, and tie up critical personnel in the meantime. You can direct the construction of a building on the other side of the map that will never happen because the materials toters get hungry and turn around halfway there. You have to know what they will do and how they will do it. If you find yourself angry at the game's logic, you do not understand it. Excellent game!
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