Banished

[garbon]

I have a confirmed bachelor who moved into his house at age 34 and never took a wife.  He is now 57 and still single.  Unfortunately Banished doesnt recognize same sex couples and so I fear he will live alone his whole life - and force me to build other houses for those more productive.

But that is realistic.

Hey now.

[FunkMonk]

... don't dream.

[garbon]

... don't dream.

I pulled that out recently in response to Seeds too!

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, if there's anybody that can put a spoiler on having dreams, it's garbon.

[Darth Wagtaros]

What is this Bansihed game?

[Tamas]

What is this Bansihed game?

IIRC the Quartertothree review summed it up as a "city builder for those who have not played any city builders before". It seems largely unfair based on comments here, but lacklustre reviews have kept me away from it.

[Grey Fox]

What is this Bansihed game?

What is Banished?

Banished is a city building strategy game that starts out with a small band of villagers, exiled into the procedurally generated wilds, with only a small cart of supplies to accompany them. You must keep the population alive by building them a community and living off the land while finding ways to feed and clothe your people. Survival is the goal, and while the summers can be pleasant the winters can be very harsh. Hunt and forage for food, grow crops, fish, trade for goods you can't find. Collect materials to build houses, blacksmiths, sawmills, roads, and many other buildings. Expand the village as people are born, grow, work jobs (twenty different professions), have more children, get old, and die.

However, actions have consequences. Cutting down trees will lower the deer population. Newly planted trees take time to grow, but many herbs can only be found in old forests. The soil in planted fields will deteriorate if farmed for too many seasons in a row. Fish too hard in a good spot and kill off the fish population. Choices made to keep your people alive must be carefully balanced with the risk of death.

The game does not have any skill trees nor gating of any kind. Build any structure whenever you want, as long as you have collected the resources for construction. Money does not exist in Banished, it has no value out in the wilderness. Goods have value and can be traded for other necessities, things like seeds, tools, food, and livestock. There's no one way to play the game "correctly", and every map is different (although each map has a seed value allowing you to replay or trade map seeds with others). The only factors in whether your people live or die are the choices you make as their leader. Will they flourish while growing into a large community, or will they die in the cold of winter by freezing or starving to death?


Banished was completely created by one person, Luke Hodorowicz. He did the game design, the programming, the music, and the art and modeling, over a period of three years.

Stolen from Neogaf

[FunkMonk]

What is this Bansihed game?

IIRC the Quartertothree review summed it up as a "city builder for those who have not played any city builders before". It seems largely unfair based on comments here, but lacklustre reviews have kept me away from it.

QT3 hated it but he seemed to have expected a different sort of game and he has his own ideas about the genre. Not knocking his review as I can understand his point of view.

As for me, it's a perfect city-builder. Relaxing, chill sandbox, where you can do everything the game offers you right from the start. I'd be playing it right now if not for midterms and D3 actually being good now. I'm sure I'll be coming back to it soon; I still have yet to create my Languishgrad mining gulag.

[PRC]

Yeah, I am still really enjoying Banished.  I do understand the complaints about not enough to do once you get to a certain larger size but i've been focusing on aesthetics of my towns and that's been fun.  Once we do start seeing some mods and such coming out this game will really shine.

[KRonn]

I recently got the game Banished and I'm liking it too. Simple, fun but enough to it to make it interesting, but not a big city builder if someone expecting that kind of game. I haven't played to a big colony yet, so far just a couple hundred citizens. Game could use some enhancments, like more styles for buildings, some bridge styles, more business types. As mentioned, with some mods the game will get even better. Also, I kind of think the food requirements  by just a hundred or more people are too high.

[Josquius]

It seems to be a nice and fun little game but I'm not sure about it lasting too long term, there doesn't seem to be that much depth to it or too many buildings to be built

[Darth Wagtaros]

I just purchased it. NO idea how to play.

[KRonn]

It seems to be a nice and fun little game but I'm not sure about it lasting too long term, there doesn't seem to be that much depth to it or too many buildings to be built

Yeah, long term playability could be an issue. It'd be nice to see an expansion to add more depth to it.

[KRonn]

I just purchased it. NO idea how to play.

It takes a bit to get the hang of it. Make sure at first to provide homes, a farm and firewood. Create a forester for logs and a wood cutter for firewood from the logs. Also, gather the stone and iron on the nearby land areas as you'll need those for building. You'll also get logs from areas cleared for building, and you should clear trees from areas you'll be building on later to get more logs. I think it's important to build a gatherer's hut as that will bring in a good amount of food to add to your supplies.

Soon build a blacksmith and tailor to create tools and clothes else your people will run out of those. Need tools to work, and clothes for warmth. You'll need a hunter at first which will provide leather for your tailor to make the first hide coats. Later you'll want to trade for sheep so you'll have wool for warmer coats. So to trade you'll need a trade building once you've made some progress.  The in game help is good so check that out. It's not a complex game but can be fun.

[Solmyr]

Looks similar to the Settlers series? Or a simpler Dwarf Fortress with graphics?