About This Game
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. They are born,
grow older, work, have children of their own, and eventually die.
Keeping them healthy, happy, and well-fed are essential to making your
town grow. Building new homes is not enough—there must be enough people
to move in and have families 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. Instead, your hard-earned 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’s diet; however, their
lengthy trade route comes with the risk of bringing illnesses from
abroad.
There are twenty different occupations that the people in the city can
perform from farming, hunting, and blacksmithing, to mining, teaching,
and healing. No single strategy will succeed for every town. Some
resources may be more scarce from one map to the next. The player can
choose to replant forests, mine for iron, and quarry for rock, but all
these choices require setting aside space into which you cannot expand.
The success or failure of a town depends on the appropriate management of risks and resources.
