Banished
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A nice change of pace for city-builders, but it loses momentum once the immediate urgency of survival goes away.
New city-builder Banished is the most fun you'll have simulating famine all year.
I liked playing Banished. It was complex, but never fiddly, difficult, but rarely cruel, though it would benefit from a little more transparency. But as soon as I had a handle on it, as soon as I'd started to see through some of the fog of its complexity, I wanted to grasp for something bigger, something greater. Banished is satisfying, but never spectacular. That's not quite enough for me.
Banished is a clever network of interlocking systems and mechanics that accomplish a lot with very little.
Banished is not impressive solely because it was made by one man—it is impressive, period.
Watching over your town in Banished can make you feel like a God, but you had better read the Wiki first.
