Banished

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About

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.

Game Details

Developer:Shining Rock Software LLC
Release:February 18, 2014
Metacritic:73
Platforms:
PC
IndieSingleplayerDifficultSurvival

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