Banished

Banished is a city-building strategy game in which you guide a group of exiled travelers as they start over in a new land. They arrive with only the clothes they wear and a cart of supplies from their homeland. Your town’s people are its primary resource: they are born, grow older, work, have children and eventually die. Keeping them healthy, happy and well-fed is essential to growth, and new homes need people to move in and start families.

Manage your town

Banished has no skill trees, and you can build any structure at any time if your people have gathered the required resources. There is no money. Instead, trade vessels bring merchants who barter for your resources and can supply livestock and annual crops to add to your townspeople’s diet. Their lengthy route also risks bringing illnesses from abroad.

Work and resources

Your people can take on 20 occupations, including farming, hunting, blacksmithing, mining, teaching and healing. No single strategy works for every town, as resources may be scarcer on some maps than others. You can replant forests, mine iron and quarry rock, but each of these choices takes up space that can no longer be used for expansion.

The town’s success depends on how well you manage its risks and resources.