Banished, a City Simulator to try

Church in construction

Banished is city building simulator which was released October, 2013 for the PC. Its a great game of try. There are no enemies, no hostiles, no great disaster,this is about surviving the environment and try to keep your people alive.

The main thing to watch over are your settlers. They are what keep your settlement alive and operated. They live to work, eat food to stay alive, give birth to children and in the end pass away. This is concept is unusual but in a good way.

Starting a new game get you a handful of settlers and a warehouse filled with food supplies, building materials and construction tools. You can set the game to made easier by changing the game modes like enabling and disabling disasters and other hazards. You can also change the environment from flat lands to mountain sides.

The quarry

The purpose of the game is to develop your settlement into a bustling metropolis. There are no research trees for you to discover, all buildings are available to be built at any time which is great. This makes planning easy for future growth.Build farms to grow crops, build a forge to maintain construction tools, build graveyards to bury the dead, and build houses to house your people. 

The settlers are your currency, without them the game is finished. Keep them fed, happy, warm from the winter cold and your will be just fine. Later in the game, disasters will occur that will endanger your people. It can diseases, fires, and the harsh winter cold.

The game goes on forever and if you enabled disaster, it be an exciting journey from settlement to city. The success depends on your skill to manage it.

Check the game play video below. 

The game is just less than half a gigabyte. The graphic may not the best, but decent. Here is the minimum system requirement: 
• OS: Win XP SP3 / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 
• Processor: 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor 
• Memory: 512 MB RAM 
• Graphics: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 2) 
• DirectX: Version 9.0c 
• Hard Drive: 250 MB available space 
• Sound Card: Any