Banished Review

I think its safe to say that I'm addicted to building simulations, especially where I can build my own medieval village!  So when I saw Banished I knew that I had to play this game.  Banished   is a city building strategy game where a ground of exiled travelers decided to start their lives in a new land with only the clothes on their back and a cart of supplies.  The game was released by Shining Rock Software LLC on February 18th, 2014.  So let's get started!

Banished: A New City

Game Description

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.

The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource. They are born, grow older, work, have children of their own, and eventually die. Keeping them healthy, happy, and well-fed are essential to making your town grow. Building new homes is not enough—there must be enough people to move in and have families of their own.

Banished has no skill trees. Any structure can be built at any time, provided that your people have collected the resources to do so. There is no money. Instead, your hard-earned resources can be bartered away with the arrival of trade vessels. These merchants are the key to adding livestock and annual crops to the townspeople’s diet; however, their lengthy trade route comes with the risk of bringing illnesses from abroad.

There are twenty different occupations that the people in the city can perform from farming, hunting, and blacksmithing, to mining, teaching, and healing. No single strategy will succeed for every town. Some resources may be more scarce from one map to the next. The player can choose to replant forests, mine for iron, and quarry for rock, but all these choices require setting aside space into which you cannot expand.

The success or failure of a town depends on the appropriate management of risks and resources.

Banished: Modded Screenshot by Cato on Steam

Simulation Gameplay

When it comes to simulation games, I'm very picky when it comes to the mechanics especially if its hard to find items to build up your town.  Well for Banished I find that it has to be one of the most simple and easy city building simulation games out there!  I found it super easy to find what I needed to support my towns people as well as being able to look at the statistics of what was happening during the game.  Honestly, I find that this game is very similar to business as it gives you the ability to look at what the village needs and determine what the best choice you can make for the village.

I also love seeing all the beautiful content that other players have created for mods for the game since it adds so much to the game play.  You can make your game look as if it came out of the Colonial period, have a train, new types of crops, and so many new buildings to place in game.  Honestly thats what got me hooked on the game and I cannot wait to try and build something beautiful in the game without having my town fail.  However, I will admit when adding some of the mods will not only change the game play by having a new building but by adding new items you need to collect to build each new CC in the game.

Banished: Modded Screenshot By Wiscoke on Steam

World/Graphics

I just love the graphics in the game.  Everything just looks so pretty and beautiful.  I will admit however, I do enjoy having 24hr daylight in the game since I can't see a thing when it gets dark and it keeps me from building.  Each building is so cute and I love watching my villagers to around and building up there town/city and grow as a cute little community.

Thank you everyone for reading!  I love playing this game so much and I really want to jump back into the game and build a new village, sadly my new computer can't run the game since its too new, so hopefully the creator can update the game for Windows 10 users as well as fix the glitches and bugs that some are experiencing.  If you want look for game recommendations you can check out my Games Review page.

Until next time,

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