This refreshingly fun and difficult game is about you, as the leader of a Banished population of villagers, trying to survive and grow your community. You are in control and in charge, and ultimately responsible for every villager who lives and dies under your leadership. Some people call it a building sim, but it's really not. Yes you do build things as part of keeping your fledgling group alive, but the entire point of the game is to grow your population and have a healthy and thriving community. This is immensely more difficult than you think it would be. The pace of the game is slow and steady, though there is a fast forward button to help pass the time up to 1x/5x/10x faster on occasion. Partly due to the pace, I find myself coming back to this game every time I burn out on something else, as I find the graphics and gameplay in this game to be very relaxing. A few tips: You've heard the term Population Center? This term is very important here, as the health and growth potential of your population depends on being within a certain respectable distance of the Town Market in order for people to get access to vital materials such as food and firewood. you must learn to manage the distance factor in order to thrive. Don't queue up too many things to build at once. Make sure not to build across rivers until you have built a bridge, otherwise your workers may starve to death while literally going around the world to get around a river or mountain. Remember, if (when) people start dying because they have no food in their homes, or freezing to death because they have no warm clothes, that's not an AI glitch. That's all on you. Keep playing, you will learn. Starting over is not a tedious thing in this game, it's part of the fun imo. The game is not hard to learn, there is no real curve when starting out. The real difficulty comes later when you start expanding and find you really didn't have the infrastructure to support more villagers after all.
