Avoiderdragon: One of the ways you can use to know a true gamer is to ask people if they’ve played any sort of city-building or business simulator for a sizable period of time. They may have played SimCity on the SNES or the PC, SimAnts or some other Sim variant, the Caesar or Patrician series, Theme Hospital, the Tycoon games(including OpenTTD), and so on. Banished is a culmination of what those games had established, but without the crap that SimCity 2013 brought to the table.
Banished, by Shining Rock Software takes you to a simpler era where you must hoard basic resources like food, stone, and iron in order to survive.
Sure, it's a year or too old, but is it worth forking out cash for?
Dan Grilipolous interviews Luke Hodorowicz, the one-man developer of indie hit 'Banished'.
“I think what helped us most is that all the press was there for Sim City and maybe because it was a disappointment to all the people who played Sim City 4 that they were looking for something new to play to fill that gap. I certainly wouldn’t consider Banished a replacement for Sim City, they’re very different games but just that fervour for a city-building game being out there is what really helped.”
Banished is fantastic city-building strategy game by Shining Rock Software; the game has cultivated a very strong following amongst stripped down, hard and painful city-building fanatics. However, the game can become somewhat dull once you’ve mastered the basic gameplay elemetns and built your first few towns – after that, the only thing left is achievements.
Not sure why they knocked the score down for this game.
I have had zero crashes and it was only made by one guy and released with less bugs than a AAA title with 200 working on it.
I would give it an 8.5/10 as there are some annoying things about it like the farmers going on a death march across the map to do labouring work then starving to death lol.