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In wilderness' loving embrace.

Banished, a medieval village sim full of tranquility that evens out the many hardships of an exile's life in the lush and beautiful, but also harsh and unforgiving realm they've been cast into, is available for $19.99 on GOG.com.

We are the banished ones. Cast away from our homeland, exiled by our own brethren. But the woods are bountiful, the river is full of fish, and there's still months before the winter comes. We will toil and we will moil, from the sweat of our brows a village will rise. We will cut trees to make room for roads and houses, we will quarry stone to build walls, we cultivate the land and hunt the woods to fill our granaries, and we will survive. We must. An outcast is an outcast as long as they don't have a place to call home. A home we shall build then, my friends. Here, in the wilderness no one ever braved. It's either that, or the cold breath of winter and the death it brings. Tomorrow, starts another chapter in our story of hardship. For now, we should rest, and marvel at this beautiful day. This has been a long journey.

Banished is a free-form village sim firmly placed in a medieval setting with every possible calamity that comes with it. You will lead a small group of refugees, exiled from their home kingdom only with the clothes on their back and a small cart of supplies. Now, they need to rip a piece of land from the wilderness and make it their home, where they will live, love, have children, and finally die (let their death be peaceful!). You'll need to keep the population happy and healthy by providing them with food and warm shelter. Watch the town grow as you assign 20 different jobs to build buildings, grow food, craft tools and clothing, and more!

Heed our warning: this is not a city-builder you may be expecting. This is a game of survival where death and despair comes uninvited into the tranquility of your settlement just when you least expect it. We challenge you to lead the Banished, for only $19.99 on GOG.com.
2014 city-building awesomeness in 89MB only? :O
Wish...wait for it...listed.
Looks interesting but... no extras and $19.99! Wishlisted for now.
Totalbiscuit did a review on this, here it is, I had the impression the game was still being developed, or maybe it just needed post-release tweaks/patches to balance the game.

Anyways the game looks fairly interesting, I'll get this when it goes on sale. Actually I remember there was another similar game like this being developed but it was a lot simpler graphics-wise. Hmmm...
Have been following this game's development for many a month, and am very impressed that ONE GUY can do something like this on his own. Based on the devlog he has been busy with bug testing for a loooong time already, so I doubt there is anything seriously wrong with the game. Can't wait to play it, but think I may hold off a little while longer till I know whether my old computer can handle it or not.

Very happy it got released here, so I can avoid the scrapheaps elsewhere. I'm one of those odd souls that still care about privacy and DRM.
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Rusty_Gunn: in an age where really huge teams make games, IMHO I think it's awesome to see what one person can do & it looks like an interesting game.

this one will be bought today

I figure this would help some understand the game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv2w4zXySDI
I should NOT have watched that. Dammit!
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Rusty_Gunn: in an age where really huge teams make games, IMHO I think it's awesome to see what one person can do & it looks like an interesting game.

this one will be bought today

I figure this would help some understand the game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv2w4zXySDI
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fortune_p_dawg: I should NOT have watched that. Dammit!
I should not have done that as well! I already bought the game and its making me want to buy it again....twice!
Looks niiice, wishlisted for now!
Another overview of the game from TB: WTF is Banished.

At first the name Banished made me think it was another zombie survival game for some reason. I was glad to see I was wrong after watching a video about it.

Nice looking game. I'll keep an eye out for it to get later on.
Looks interesting, I will put it on my wishlist and wait for further reviews. 89MB, how is that even possible in 2014.

He's a really talented guy if he can program and draw all the art. If only I could do one of the two.
Post edited February 18, 2014 by jjsimp
How about extras? No soundtack? No goodies? Any plans for that?
I've been watching the development of this game for some time now. It's not a game for everybody, but it's definitely a game for me.
Been reading about this today and it do's look interesting. Just a little out of price range atm. Wishlisted for now.
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Post edited February 18, 2014 by mondo84
Wow, this looks amazing - especially as one guy created the entire game.

Wishlisted for now, but this will be a 'must buy' for me in the next few weeks.
Geez, how many TB links we need in one thread? :p