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People see city builder and think you're talking about big, large, huge cities (Cities: Skylines, Sim City, maybe even Tropico). I'd say Banished and those other games you've listed are far smaller scale and more like settlement builders rather than city builders.
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By Rowan Kaiser
Updated: Sep 29, 2021 8:31 pm
Posted: Feb 21, 2014 12:43 am
There's a special feeling that occurs when a game indicates that it knows what its players are going to want to do, and seems to gently guide you to play it just right. In the city-builder Banished, that moment occurred for me almost as soon as I loaded the tutorial, which is one of the best I've ever played. In both how it presented itself and how it taught me, Banished clearly indicated that it wanted me access and comprehend its systems. And then... then it let me encounter my first harsh winter where a third of my town died to starvation. First Banished teaches its systems, then it crushes you with them.
Banished uses a clean, minimalist, and customizable interface where by default, 95% of what appears on the screen is the city itself. You can (and probably should) add information windows and a mini-map, but even with that it's a far cry from other series like SimCity or Tropico whose interfaces and pop-ups can dominate the screen. The lack of external interruption makes it easy to turn on Banished and lose several hours to the passing of the seasons.
Its difficulty doesn't come from struggling to figure out what's happening or how to understand it, nor from arbitrary events like time limits or invasions (although there are a few random disasters like fires and disease), but instead from the rhythms of play—expanding too quickly to feed everyone, or running short of firewood in winter. It's difficult to overstate how refreshing it is to play a city-building strategy game whose challenge is natural, instead of imposed artificially.
As a city-building game, Banished is dazzling. It combines simple charms with transparent, complex systemic interactions, and a tough-but-fair difficulty curve. My only real criticisms of it is that it left me wanting more, such as strong overarching long-term goals, like a campaign mode. That might have pushed Banished into the top tier of amazing...
- Rowan Kaiser
If you haven't checked out the game Banished yet, I would highly recommend it especially if it goes on sale. I personally do not enjoy playing a lot of sim-city style games, but banished hooked me hard with its gameplay loop. The graphics are simply gorgeous and go for a realistic style yet simple. settlements look rustic yet brimming with life.
Feb 21, 2014 · Banished is a city management simulator with a survival focus. It begins with a selectable world state and starting conditions that include terrain and climate types, how many families will...
Sep 4, 2013 · Banished will be a free-form city builder in a randomly generated resource sandbox. Sometimes you'll get a town with a thick forest, sometimes you'll get rich mines. Each town will build...
- Ian Birnbaum
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.
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Feb 21, 2014 · A city-building game with intrinsic difficulty merely from its own rhythms of play is a remarkable achievement, aligning Banished with something like Dwarf Fortress, though nowhere near as...
