Lead a group of exiled travelers in this city-building strategy game on PC, starting with just their clothes and a cart of supplies. Townspeople serve as your core resource, born, aging, working, reproducing, and dying while you keep them healthy, happy, and fed to expand the settlement. Build any structure once resources gather, without skill trees or money, and barter with trade vessels for livestock or crops-though they risk importing illnesses.
Assign citizens to 20 occupations like farming, hunting, blacksmithing, mining, teaching, or healing, adapting to scarce resources across maps. Replant forests, mine iron, or quarry rock, but reserve space that blocks expansion. Strategy fans thrive on balancing risks and resources for town survival in this indie simulation.
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.
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