The idyllic groves for gathering mushrooms and berries are the farmland of tomorrow. The children of today are the hungry workers of the future. People procreate when they have a house to themselves. Many revelations are “well, duh” moments. A 15 year setback due to letting my population age but not procreate. My second lesson was that just because people are well-fed, doesn’t mean they’re immortal. My first lesson was not to build a quarry in your second year. You’re learning more and more about the game each time you play it. The game’s greatest strength for me lies in its iterative nature. The game features no combat such as in other town sims like Caesar, and I’m pretty thankful it doesn’t, because combating a lack of firewood is hard enough. The aims of Banished are simple: Grow your ramshackle group from a dozen to a few hundred, while battling the cold of winter, starvation from poor farm management, work-related accidents, natural disaster, resource shortages, or just simple old age. Built by the one man team of Shining Rock Software, the game sees you controlling a group of exiles from small beginnings to a burgeoning town of several hundred people over the space of a hundred years or so. Banished is the little town sim that could.

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