

Win XP SP3 / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8ĥ12 MB DirectX 9. Resources, such as quarries, fish populations or forest, can be depleted or over-harvested. There are 18 occupations in which townspeople can specialize.ĭifferent maps have different layouts and quantities of natural resources to exploit. Mechanics of the game are much more cruel than in other productions of this genre, and our village is constantly threatened by hunger, disease, dehydration, natural disasters or drought. So it takes a careful balance between aggressive population growth and starvation. Banished for PC is a strategy game developed by a team at Shining Rock Software, in which the player's task is to manage a small village. Also, newborn children need to eat but do not produce goods until around 10 years. This causes an aging population, which will eventually die off but may not leave enough time for new offspring to be born. Shelter is also important because if no vacant housing exist, mature children will continue to live with their parents and will not marry and procreate. For example, if the wood cutter is sick, the town may not have enough firewood for the winter, causing others to become cold and unproductive as well. If they are unhealthy, hungry, or cold they will be unproductive, potentially causing a domino effect if their job is essential to the economy. The people of Banished need food, shelter, and firewood and coats to keep warm. This is essential to "unlock" food types initially unavailable to the player. Players must build trade ports and wait for a merchant to arrive in order to trade for whatever food, building materials, livestock, or seeds the visiting trader may arrive with. There is no currency making barter trade essential. The challenge comes from simply being able to survive and to see how big of a city you can manage. There is no military aspect to the game and no end game goal, aside from Steam achievements. 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. Players place buildings, assign jobs to citizens and manage the resources so the citizens can survive. In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land.

The game was developed by a single developer ( Luke Hodorowicz) and released on Steam on February 18, 2014.īanished is a sandbox economic simulation and city builder. The premise of Banished is that a small band of travelers have been exiled from their former home kingdom, and now, having only the meager supplies they could carry with them and whatever they are able to build and gather themselves in the wilderness, must found a new settlement to assure their survival.
