About Banished
Banished is a city-building strategy game developed and published by Shining Rock Software and released on 18 February 2014. You take control of a group of exiled travellers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They arrive with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland, and everything else has to be built by hand. There are no quests and no story missions to guide you, only an empty valley, a handful of families and the long task of turning raw wilderness into a lasting community.
The townspeople themselves are your primary resource. They are born, grow older, work, have children of their own and eventually die, so every decision affects real generations. Keeping them healthy, happy and well fed is essential to making your town grow, and building new homes is never enough on its own: there must be enough people to move in and start families. Cold winters, poor harvests and sickness can quickly put a young town at risk, which makes careful planning of food, firewood, clothing and warm shelter the heart of the experience.
Banished has no skill trees, so any structure can be built at any time, provided your people have collected the resources to do so. There is no money either. Your hard-earned goods are bartered away when trade vessels arrive, and these merchants are the key to adding livestock and annual crops to the townspeople’s diet. Their long trade route, however, comes with the risk of bringing illness from abroad. There are twenty different occupations, from farming, hunting and blacksmithing to fishing, mining, teaching and healing, and you decide how many people work in each.
No single strategy will succeed for every town, because some resources may be scarce from one map to the next. You can replant forests, mine for iron and quarry for rock, but each of these choices requires setting aside space into which the town cannot expand. Success or failure depends on the careful management of risks and resources. The game runs on Windows and is available in English. It is a strong choice for fans of calm yet demanding city builders, survival strategy and resource management, and for anyone who enjoys watching a small camp grow into a thriving town.
Key Features
- Exiles in the wild – Start with a cart of supplies.
- Living townspeople – They work, age, have children and die.
- Free building – Any structure, any time, any layout.
- No money – Barter goods with trade vessels.
- 20 occupations – Farming, hunting, smithing, teaching and more.
- Food and shelter – Keep people fed, warm and healthy.
- Risky trade – Merchants may carry illness from abroad.
- Varied maps – Resources differ from one map to the next.
PC Version and Compatibility
The game runs on Windows. The minimum setup is Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7 or 8, a 2 GHz Intel dual-core processor, 512 MB of RAM, a 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with Shader Model 2, DirectX 9.0c and 250 MB of free storage space. Languages: English.
Global Activation & What You Receive
This GOG key unlocks the full game Banished. It is a Global key that can be activated worldwide. Sign in to your GOG account, open gog.com/redeem, enter the code and the game is added to your library, where you can download it directly or through GOG Galaxy.
Why Buy This Game?
Why buy it? A thoughtful city builder where people age and raise families, free building with no skill trees, barter trade without money, twenty occupations and a constant struggle to keep a town fed and warm.
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