Buy Banished

Great game. Took me a while to do well in the game but very fun and will recomend

Very poor game. Might as well be a screensaver. There's very little input required to set up some houses, a workshop, farms, and the fastest game setting is 10x. Withotu exaggeration, 99% of the game is just watching, waiting for children to become of working age faster than people die.

There's no grand strategy, and no sense of achievement other than expanding your "town".

When a boat arrives, with inevitably nothing you can afford, you try to sell whatever surplus you have (except there's no "sell" only "trade") and wait for the next one.

No challenge, it's just a screensaver.

To say i'm disappointed by other reviews is an understatement. For better management games, try Blueprint Manager, or even Settlers 3.

This is £3 worth of game at most. I'll edit this once i've tried a mod, but with the maximum game speed of 10x, it's just too slow.

Sometimes Cholera or a tornado kills random people, so I have to stop making clothes, and instead go fishing, but all this does is set you back to where you were 30mins ago. Pointless, and boring.

I'm a few years late to this one. While waiting for Civ VI to inevitably take over my life at the end of this month, I needed some game to tide me over. I went into my backlog and chose this quaint little medieval city-builder.

Banished is a game that offers unforgiving tough love. I feel like this game is the "Oregon Trail" of city-builders, and it's enjoyable as a challenging game of resource management. Unfortunately, it isn't exactly the best at explaining itself, and so it requires a lot of trial and error in order to get going. There's a lot of cycles of cascading success or failure, so you'll likely be restarting your games multiple times before you get anything remotely close to a sizable village. I would also advise that you try to keep multiple save states for your early cities so that if you make a small mistake that starts to spiral into catastrophe, you can reload and fix it without having to restart the entire game.

It lacks a little bit of polish in some areas (owing to it being an indie title), and the extreme failure that you're likely to experience in the first few runs could leave a damaging first impression. But if you stick with it through a few village restarts, you'll find a deep and exceptionally-solid little city-builder.

Core gameplay cycle is simple, straightforward, and elegant. The bulk of the game consists of managing your small work force as the year progresses across the seasons. You gather resources, harvest food, create manufactures goods necessary to your own survival, and construct new infrastructure. There's no division of social classes, so you won't be creating a city in which some small minority of elites live in palatial mansions while the rest of the laborers are huddled in freezing shacks. So the economics of the game remain relatively simple compared to other city-builders, and this game does lack a little bit of the customization and expressiveness that other city-builders enjoy.

The game is also very good at using time and map space as resources. As your city grows, you have to balance your need for growth with the threat of stripping the map clean of resources. Every action that you perform feels like it involves significant trade-offs, and this is where much of the challenge comes from. You have to budget your limited resources and limited time (before the onset of winter) to get everything done so that your people don't freeze or starve to death.

If you like survival games, and you like city-builders, then Banished is right up your alley.

Please read the full review on my personal blog:
http://www.megabearsfan.net/post/2016/10/10/Banished-game-review.aspx

On the surface this seems like a great game, but that's as far as it goes. Beneath the veneer of the visually appealing graphics and simplistic design you think you can see a city builder with a survivalist inspired challenge. In reality, the games poor AI design and unrealistically frustrating features inspire the entirety of the challenge. Good game to paddle with for a few hours, and explore the buildings; but once the honeymoon wears off you'll find you will close it angrily and never open.

If you can't see where I am comming from with the AI, here's a few things that I found myself annoyed at:
- Villagers dying of starvation whilst holding food
- Villagers ignoring buildings that are not connected by land mass but only by bridge.
- Animals walking through the rivers and wandering through mountains (Not really that annoying, just rings of poor code)
- Villagers constantly using coal when there is a huge coal shortage and tool shortage.
- Villagers spend most of their times walking around on unrelated tasks to their purpose. (Is not solved by better building placement beacause they seem to prefer certain buildings over proximity)


I could go on and on about the AI, but I've made my point. Mind you, this will only really affect you right at the start or 100 pop in, when said issues will certaintly starve off half your town until food supply can cope, and rinse and repeat. A city builder and manager is entirely focused on having a decent AI, and if it's not there: the entire game will suffer tremendously.

Great fun to play when you do not have internet, as i didn't when i played.
Very much a trial and error game, which I like in this genre of games, try it out.

Good game but I find that I dont play it much cause its got so little. What id does have shines,

Very boring

10/10 for those who like games like Sims, Farmville, Clash of Clans (minus the attacking players), and other games that require building and consistent checking.

Very few features comparing to any major city builder.

GREAT GAME...WOULD RECOMMEND TO MY FRIENDS