Posted on: October 28, 2017

RickFalletta

Игр: 516 Отзывов: 1

Banished for stupidity

I wanted something relaxing that I could play with my morning coffee on the weekends and it started off as such but I apparently found out why my villagers were "Banished" from their parent community...they are mentally deficient. First time my adult pop was about 120 then a huge starve-off dropped it down to about 85 once I closed the schools to get more into the labor pool. I slowly built up the population to around 110 and just now lost about 40 again to the point where I just didn't care and ran the speed up to x10 until it hit early spring again and I saved and quit. And this was when there was food in the barns, food in the marketplace, and most of the people starving were gathering food. If they're too stupid to find food, they're too stupid to live, and Darwinism wins again. What started as a nice relaxing way to build a village has turned into sheer frustration. At best I'm contemplating ditching this village, (I would hate to as I would like to see it grow and build the things I had planned.) and starting another on just the easy level to hopefully avoid such stupidity but it may end up as something I don't go back to at all. This may be my first and last village. I wanted relaxation, I got stress. I get enough of that from work. I was impressed at first. I told people to get it. Now I will tell them to not bother.

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Posted on: June 2, 2016

thenile

Владелец игры

Игр: Отзывов: 5

Go play a caeser game or smth

Sadly lacking. To give you an example, you get two types of houses, one which uses up your precious stone, and the other which uses the easy to replenish 'logs'. There are no tents, no mansions, but good news, there is a homeless shelter! And yes, they called the wood resource logs, and there are no planks! This game sorely needs the ability to upgrade structures and add more diverse buildings. There are no enemies, not even wild ones. Even though I had natural disasters on, nothing happened after hours and hours of play. Nobody even got sick! My herbs sat in storage until a trader came along who valued them at 4. Yes, things have value in this game, but mostly either traders don't want a lot of things, or the price is simply static. Trading in this game is pretty lame, since I just made hundreds of wool coats and stored thousands of venison - which stayed fresh forever - trading was just a matter of letting people do their jobs and then waiting for it to transfer to the trading post and trading it off. Everyone except young children are workers in this game, and 12 yo's seem to just help out with whatever they feel like doing (unless they are a student), even if it's working in the quarry... Now the thing here is every worker is a part-time labourer... I had my tailor walk all the way through my town to cut some wood when they weren't busy, because I wanted to remove the resources in the area... Now, the trees behind the building the tailor works at really wasn't good enough, yet for some reason, they wondered off to do something when I may be relying on them to produce as many of a resource as fast as possible if it's an emergency. When someone isn't healthy... What do they do? They keep on working and getting less healthy... But it seems they don't actually need anything. If I needed to assign them to simply labourer, then it wasn't obvious and it's a pain in the ass in the first place. So... What do they need? You're never told. Labourers will pick up resources to place them in depots. If somebody is chopping down trees so someone can build there, they have to move the resource.... So they walk to the nearest depot, even if it's miles away... Why not just move the resources to the side of the building site? This just forces you to drop a depot down and then remove it. Why don't hunters and foresters live in their buildings out in the wild? And why don't they need fuel for fires? It makes no sense

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Posted on: June 4, 2019

skeeto

Владелец игры

Игр: Отзывов: 10

A (mostly) relaxing and fun town builder

The hardest part of this game is the first half hour or so, getting through that first winter. If you can manage that, you can generally breeze through everything else, just building your town up and out, collecting every kind of farm/orchard seed. I enjoy casually expanding into every nook and cranny available on the map. But that's also the problem: A few hours into the game and you've seen everything there is to see. There's just nothing more to do other than keep growing the same way you've been. The population is automatically locked to the available housing, so it very easily settles into a steady state that really doesn't require any attention. This limits the replayability.

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Posted on: September 13, 2019

PaperCake

Владелец игры

Игр: 116 Отзывов: 7

A simplistic city builder

Banished is a game I own on both Steam and GOG for the reason of "I never double check" so the 20~ hours I've spent trying to keep my settlers from dying of the sniffles hasn't translated. But I can tell you this, Banished is a simple city builder that lets you do more than the bare neccessities. The only issue is it doesn't go much farther than that. You control a small gaggle of goons out in the middle of nowhere with a barn and a hope to survive, so you set up building sites and manage jobs hoping they stay alive long enough to not die when winter comes. And the game gives you that basic premise, a set of tools and then goes home to do nothing. It's not a bad game and it's an effective time waster for other downloads but there's nothing to stock to you. Building stuff is simple, the UI is simple, graphics are simple, the only thing I take issue with is the AI but that's mostly because they take just a little too long to get focused on stuff so when your farmer dies of pneumonia, it'll take a day or so for the new farmer to get to the field and hopefully save your potatoes from rotting. I think 20 bucks is overkill for a game like this but 9/10 it drops to 5 in sales and for 5 bucks, it's not too bad.

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Posted on: March 7, 2021

nandyssy

Владелец игры

Игр: 76 Отзывов: 4

Good game to pass the time

I have spent over 200 hours on this game and I still go back to it every now and then. If you like sandbox style games where you can focus on building, trying different town layouts without having to worry about disasters and micromanaging townspeople then this game is for you. The music is relaxing, even if it is somewhat repetitive, and the start can be tricky especially in hard mode. Once you get going however it's mostly smooth sailing. I'm giving a 4 star rating because it's 2021 and this game could do with a few quality of life improvements.

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