

The game uses seasons to progress time and as you move through them different things will happen to the landscape, yielding more or less resources. The charm of the game doesn’t come from its difficulty curve or from struggling to find out what the heck you are supposed to do but more from the rhythm of play that you create. With this feature in place it allows you to customise what you can keep an eye on. Controls and UI are simple and easy to understand with all HUD menus having the ability to be switched off and moved. You will learn about the various buildings and resources as you play through the tutorial and then be sent along your merry way to create your very own settlement. You are dropped into a seed generated landscape with a set amount of workers and no objectives except for survival.

It is your job as their overseer to help them survive the harsh winters, cope for starvation and ultimately build their new civilisation.

They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. You are tasked with controlling a group of exiled travellers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. Banished is city-building strategy game brought to you by Shining Rock Software, a single manned indie developer who has put three years of love into this game.
