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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.
Banished is a city builder, colony sim and strategy game
developed and published by Shining Rock Software LLC.
Released on February 18th 2014 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 42,140 reviews of which 38,068 were positive and 4,072 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 18.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 6.39€ on Instant Gaming.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Win XP SP3 / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
- Processor: 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 2)
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
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Folks leaving bad reviews in 2025 were not around a decade ago when this masterpiece dropped and changed everything. There's a million banished clones and nearly every city builder of the last decade was hugely inspired by this game. If you don't remember staying up til 4am the night that this game dropped because you couldn't put it down, then you won't understand the significance of the game. At the time it dropped it was revolutionary, and it's a core memory for anybody who was around at the time. If you think this game is rudimentary or basic it's because the game you've played that's more fleshed out was a passion project by a huge banished fan. Banished walked so they could run, etc. It's still a great game, and especially if you're new the genre, this is a great place to start. It's also an important historical piece of art that needs to be understood in the context of it's time.
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This is not really a review of the game but more a message of thanks. This is my dads account and he sadly passed away this week at the age of 79. He loved this game and would always be sat here with a cup of tea sucking on a mint humbug as I am doing now trying to write this. This was never called Banished in his house it was just simply his game and every evening he could be found drinking his tea grumbling about how all his people were lazy and were starving and cold. I will miss the notification popping up saying he was playing so much. So yes I would recommend this game, His game it kept him very happy for 12,731 hours of his life and if they have computers up there no doubt he will be there playing his game with a cup of tea and a mint humbug. Thank you
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Comically difficult city builder. I'd say that besides a few UI problems like having to remember where did you set your plan for making a new building, one of the biggest issues is that your pop control has to be hand-held very carefully. Later games like Rimworld perfected role designation for example. In this game the guys that build buildings are different from the guys that get food which are different from the guys that mine which are different from the guys that cut trees which are different from the guys that move things to your storage. You cant possibly get a guy that is "ok" at more than 1 thing which would make the game immensely more easier to get into. Oh, and there's no upgrades to the technology and the buildings. The limit of "getting better" is not having people die, building steel tools instead of iron, and using stone houses instead of wood. Advanced farming? making ports? horse stables? finding other sources of fuel? bigger buildings? unlocking other professions? nonexistant here. What you see is what you get.
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This game is unlike any other city builder games that I've played before. It might be challenging at first but after several dozen attempts I was able to grasp how the game works and I was able to reach a town with +200 people for the first time. It was really fun and I really enjoyed it. My first few attempts always ends up in failure. Some of those failures include: - Everyone dying of old age at the same time and the population crashes - Everyone dying of cold due to lack of firewood supply - Everyone dying of starvation due to population growth outpacing food production - Town runs out of tools supply and the economy grinds to a halt - Running out of wood, stone, or iron and the economy grinds to a halt - Forgetting to build a herbalist hut and everyone becomes unhealthy and unproductive - Forgetting to build a hospital and everyone succumbs to disease outbreaks - And many more... Some tips to new players: - Make sure to set disaster turned off and focus on learning the basic game mechanics for now. - Choose a map that spawns you in right next to deep rivers and bodies of water as it will make fishing much more accessible. Also plenty of flat land is good too to allow room for expansion. A bad map is all it takes to ruin your play through. - Always go for gatherers, hunters, and fishermen for the food supply in early game as they can produce food all year around regardless of season. You can go for crop fields, orchards, and farms later once you're in midgame. - Build a wood cutter and stockpile firewood asap before winter comes or else your people will freeze to death in early game. - Make sure to build storage barn right next to gatherer's hut, hunters cabin, fishing dock, crop fields, orchards, and farms as it will significantly decrease travel time and boost productivity. - Make sure to build a storage shed right next to forester, wood cutter, tailor and other non-food related production buildings to decrease travel time and boost productivity. - Make sure that your town is in a state of food overproduction and you have a lot of storage barns before you decide to expand the population (aka before you build more houses) - Take the expansion slow and steady, make sure to build one or two house at a time. Avoid baby booms as it will mean your town will eventually end up mass dying of old age down the line. - Make sure to stockpile tons of wood, stone, and iron before expanding further - Make sure to have overproduction of firewood before expansion or else the firewood supply will run out due to rapid expansion and everyone freezes to death - Once you're in midgame, build Markets in the middle of your town and build stone roads to improve the transportation of foods and commodity, school house for increased education and productivity, coal mines for steel tools (better tools results in better productivity), and tailor to clothe your folks and be able to work better in winter.
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The year is 2024. I'm on a 34" Ultrawide and I've just booted up Banished for the first time in years. It runs without a single issue. Doesn't feel dated at all and I can't wait to get my town up to 1.000 Citizens. One of the all time greatest indie projects, hands down.
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Banished is currently priced at 18.99€ on Steam.
Banished is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 18.99€ on Steam.
Banished received 38,068 positive votes out of a total of 42,140 achieving a rating of 8.87.
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Banished was developed and published by Shining Rock Software LLC.
Banished is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Banished is not playable on MacOS.
Banished is not playable on Linux.
Banished is a single-player game.
Banished does not currently offer any DLC.
Banished does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Banished supports Remote Play on Phone and Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Banished is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
481
Developer
Shining Rock Software LLC
Publisher
Shining Rock Software LLC
Release
18 Feb 2014
Platforms
Remote Play
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