1. Banished: You Should Play It
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Banished is the city builder of the countryside — a
peaceful Stronghold, a rural Sim City, and honestly better than
both.
Banished is another of those beautiful games that leaves so much for
the player to figure out on their own; some might call it an exercise
in frustration, but those who appreciate city-builders relish in the
immediate challenge. Not being presented with all the tools necessary
to make a bustling metropolis right away, you instead have to fail
continuously, having your beloved villagers starve and freeze to
death, or live off of a diet of only peaches and wheat or otherwise
just generally suffer because you, their omnipotent deity, are a
bumbling fool of a player who has no clue at all why so much food is
freezing in the fields. What do you mean gatherers are important?

2. Look
how peaceful this looks
To start with, the tutorial for the game is truly excellent. Not only does the actual game contain so
many minute details, requiring eventual knowledge to thrive, but the tutorial also works quite hard
at obfuscating them from the player but still managing to make the player feel really comfortable
with the game. Perhaps it’s the gentle, graceful music that plays, perhaps it’s the wild deer and
birds fluttering through the map, or maybe it’s the slow and meandering pace of the villagers.
Regardless, one feels utterly, completely at peace when playing Banished. However, the graceful
pace of the villagers is soon lost once the player begins to become heavily invested in his village.
The speed very shortly gets cranked up to x10 — one can see all of his beautiful designs of homes,
farms, and cemeteries come to life before his very eyes and make the player feel like a true god.
Seriously, one truly does feel like a god when playing Banished. An inept, inefficient and overall
foolish god, sure, but a benevolent deity no matter what. Seeing everything you’ve planned, seeing
little Timmy the child become a student, then graduate to a miner, follow with seeing him be
crushed to death in your mines trying to gather stone for your newest housing project – all of this
revealed to you in only text. It changes a person. I find it hard to believe that I could realistically
feel bad for my villagers when they die gathering resources, or freeze to death because I haven’t
provisioned them with enough firewood, but I truly, truly do.

3. Seriously, just look at this game!
All of that feeling passes in an instant however, because I’m then
immediately more concerned with the loss of efficiency their death
has created. Now there is one less labourer with which to collect
resources so I can expand even further! Bloody ingrates. The game
still has a lot left to add; the developer is planning on continuous
updates for a good while, so there’s likely plenty other game
features still yet to be added to this already excellent
game. Banished is the perfect game for anyone who appreciates city-building,
who appreciates city planning, and most of all, appreciates
efficiency — it is the pursuit of efficiency in Banishedthat will
eventually drive you insane. And then, only then, do you truly know
everything, and thus, can create the perfect village.
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