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Banished (Game)
Nov. 24th, 2021 07:44 pmI have this. Bought it years ago with Humble Bundle DRM-free and then because of issues, bought it again on sale with Steam. It's on sale again for about $8 U.S., so I thought I'd plug it.
This is a several years old town building game for Windows; I've got it running under Q4Wine on one laptop and Steam-Proton on the other (because of Issues with one of my Linux machines), probably works under Crossover for Mac but I haven't checked. There are no skill trees; you get everything that you can possibly make at the beginning of the game. It is abandoned by the developer but the fandom is active and the modding community is vibrant. (If you buy through Steam, it has the Steam Workshop, which makes it easier to get and use mods.) The only downside with the mods is that you can't get your game achievements with a modded game. Oh well.
The idea is that you start with a handful of families that have been banished from their homeland and must make a new life. You have to steadily build housing and work buildings, as well as make sure you have enough sources of food for your growing population (crops, orchards, fishing, foraging, hunting, and raising animals). It's really easy to move too fast and have your villagers starve or move too slow and have them all die of old age. Like Stardew Valley, it's the work of one single person.
( Some of my tactics and some game seeds that I've found and liked )
This is a several years old town building game for Windows; I've got it running under Q4Wine on one laptop and Steam-Proton on the other (because of Issues with one of my Linux machines), probably works under Crossover for Mac but I haven't checked. There are no skill trees; you get everything that you can possibly make at the beginning of the game. It is abandoned by the developer but the fandom is active and the modding community is vibrant. (If you buy through Steam, it has the Steam Workshop, which makes it easier to get and use mods.) The only downside with the mods is that you can't get your game achievements with a modded game. Oh well.
The idea is that you start with a handful of families that have been banished from their homeland and must make a new life. You have to steadily build housing and work buildings, as well as make sure you have enough sources of food for your growing population (crops, orchards, fishing, foraging, hunting, and raising animals). It's really easy to move too fast and have your villagers starve or move too slow and have them all die of old age. Like Stardew Valley, it's the work of one single person.
( Some of my tactics and some game seeds that I've found and liked )
