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Games Like Banished
Feb 18, 2014·90% positive·
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.
Best games like Banished
The best games like Banished are Settlement Survival, Settlements Rising, Depraved, Kingdoms and Castles, and Founders' Fortune. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 90% positive across 37k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Strategy, Indie, Simulation, platform support for Windows, and $19.99 pricing signal.
- Settlement Survival - Settlement Survival is closely similar to Banished because both are Strategy and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like City Builder, and fit the same cozy/farming and survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- Settlements Rising - Settlements Rising is closely similar to Banished because both are Strategy and Indie and Simulation games, and fit the same cozy/farming and survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- Depraved - Depraved is closely similar to Banished because both are Strategy and Indie and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like City Builder, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- Kingdoms and Castles - Kingdoms and Castles is closely similar to Banished because both are Strategy and Indie and Simulation games, and fit the same cozy/farming and survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- Founders' Fortune - Founders' Fortune is closely similar to Banished because both are Strategy and Indie and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like City Builder, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
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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. They are born, grow older, work, have children of their own, and eventually die. Keeping them healthy, happy, and well-fed are essential to making your town grow. Building new homes is not enough—there must be enough people to move in and have families of their own.
Banished has no skill trees. Any structure can be built at any time, provided that your people have collected the resources to do so. There is no money. Instead, your hard-earned resources can be bartered away with the arrival of trade vessels. These merchants are the key to adding livestock and annual crops to the townspeople’s diet; however, their lengthy trade route comes with the risk of bringing illnesses from abroad.
There are twenty different occupations that the people in the city can perform from farming, hunting, and blacksmithing, to mining, teaching, and healing. No single strategy will succeed for every town. Some resources may be more scarce from one map to the next. The player can choose to replant forests, mine for iron, and quarry for rock, but all these choices require setting aside space into which you cannot expand.
The success or failure of a town depends on the appropriate management of risks and resources.
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