Banished
Genre: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Developer: Shining Rock Software LLC
Publisher: Shining Rock Software LLC
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Free Download Game - In this city-building strategy
game, you can 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 homelnd. The townspeople of Banished are your
primary resource. They are born, grow, work,have children of their town, and
also die. Keeping them healty, happy, and well fed are essential to making your
town grow. Building new homes in not enough, there must be enough people to
move in and have family 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. Insted your hard eraned 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 diet. However, their lenghtlty trade routes
comes with the risk ofbringing illness from aboard.
There are 20 different occupations that the people
in the city can perform from hunting, blacksmithing, farming, teaching,
healing, and mining. No single strategy will succeed for every town. Some
resorces may be more scare from one map to the next. You can choose to replant
forests, quarry for rock, mine for iron, but all these choices require setting
aside space into which you cannot expand.