Banished on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 42,074 reviews of which 38,011 were positive and 4,063 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.

The Steam community has classified Banished into these genres:

City Builder Colony Sim Strategy Simulation Survival Indie Singleplayer Sandbox Medieval Resource Management Relaxing Economy Building Management Open World Difficult Beautiful Procedural Generation Historical RTS

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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

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

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.

Dec. 2024

It's an older game that is no longer being supported... so buy it when its on sale. It's a fun game to play if you like city builder games, but there is no "end" eventually you will get to a point where you just want to start over again. There's tons of potential for more but it will never come. But I still pop in and create a new settlement from time to time because it just works.

Aug. 2024

The modding community in this game is INCREDIBLE. Seriously, download MegaMod 9. It basically quadruples the base game. There will be so many options that you'll be overwhelmed. At it's heart though, it's a fantastic city builder. I'm a huge fan of city builders and this is near the top of the list.

June 2024

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.

April 2024

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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