Actually, it became a pretty fair way to combat those late-night “one more turn” moments. In my experience, somewhere between 1 hour and 2 I could usually expect the game to crash. Sometimes the music would just start and stop at random. My autosave timer was set to 5 minutes, but I suspect that it wasn't always functioning as intended. And on and on down the rabbit hole you fall.īanished, at the time of this writing, is a bit glitchy. Those new people eating more food? Make more hunters. Need more people to make foresters? Build more houses. The main focus of this game centers on micro-managing the tasks of your citizens to achieve a particular resource distribution.
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I think that a more accurate comparison is that it’s like Kingdom for Keflings without the manual labor. One phrase that has been tossed around with Banished is "It’s like Sim City, without the City". There are little yellow headstone icons that show when one of your citizens dies from either starving or freezing (or for various other reasons later in the game), and seeing 6 of those little headstones line up because you’re not cutting firewood fast enough to heat your citizens’ homes can really make you feel for your fictitious people. If you make a planning error, such as building too many houses - which incites a Baby Boom that diminishes your food supply and outruns your food creation - the game makes you pay for it. It took me several rough starts (Townberg, New Townberg, East Townberg, New East Townberg, and West Townberg) before I finally managed to found a town that I could sustain (New New Townberg). In spite of Banished’s multiple tutorials (which you will need to use), there’s not a ton of hand-holding in the game proper. It should be noted that there are also achievements for 600 citizens and for 900 citizens, so my self-imposed goal was far from the most challenging one available, but it still took me roughly 16 hours of gameplay to hit 300 citizens, with the game running at 5x speed for the first half and 10x speed for the second half of my playthrough. There is however an achievement for managing to hit the landmark goal of 300 citizens, so I decided that in order to ever be able to complete a review of the game, that I would consider that my 'ending'. The game is over when either your town dies out or you quit to start a new town. Oh no, is that the sun?” Plus, like many good survival games, there is no 'ending'. Like many good RTS games, I had many moments of “I’m almost done. Can you keep your tired band of exiles alive, fed, and productive enough that they can manage to start over properly and build an entirely new community complete with security and infrastructure based on your resource management?īanished is an absolute time-sink in the best kind of way. The title is a bit misleading: you won’t be dealing with any political fallout from your banishment or any sorts of ideological differences among the tribe this game is all about survival. You start with around 20 citizens (only half or so able-bodied adults), a supply lot, a storage barn, and a handful of supplies and you’re left to your own devices to make a new life for the people of your settlement. It’s not often that a game will begin with the members of a town being banished to live out the rest of their days in the wilds away from the kingdom, but, as the title would indicate, that is precisely the starting premise of Shining Rock’s Banished. By VGChartz Staff, posted on 18 March 2014 / 3,425 Views