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    Couldn't find a thread on this yet, but Banished has been released on Steam now:

    http://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/

    Its a pure city building game, and it looks really awesome, think I will buy it next week, but its been getting great reviews.

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    About the Game
    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. They are born, grow older, work, have children of their own, and eventually die. Keeping them healthy, happy, and well-fed are essential to making your town grow. Building new homes is not enough—there must be enough people to move in and have families of their own.

    Banished has no skill trees. Any structure can be built at any time, provided that your people have collected the resources to do so. There is no money. Instead, your hard-earned resources can be bartered away with the arrival of trade vessels. These merchants are the key to adding livestock and annual crops to the townspeople’s diet; however, their lengthy trade route comes with the risk of bringing illnesses from abroad.

    There are twenty different occupations that the people in the city can perform from farming, hunting, and blacksmithing, to mining, teaching, and healing. No single strategy will succeed for every town. Some resources may be more scarce from one map to the next. The player can choose to replant forests, mine for iron, and quarry for rock, but all these choices require setting aside space into which you cannot expand.

    The success or failure of a town depends on the appropriate management of risks and resources

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    Looks pretty good, let me know once you have played it hands on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crableg View Post
    Couldn't find a thread on this yet, but Banished has been released on Steam now:

    http://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/

    Its a pure city building game, and it looks really awesome, think I will buy it next week, but its been getting great reviews.
    I have been eye balling it since last month. It's got that simcity builder feel but I fear it doesn't scale further than medieval times, that might make it stale for me.

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    Been eyeing this. I'll wait for a sale though

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArchieChoke View Post
    I have been eye balling it since last month. It's got that simcity builder feel but I fear it doesn't scale further than medieval times, that might make it stale for me.
    Yea understandable, but it looks like you really have to manage everything well, the reviews say it is hard, you might think you have a successful village then 1 thing happens and everything gets thrown off.

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    I was really excited for this actually and then I read the Rock, Paper, Shotgun article on it and I decided against getting it:

    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/18/banished-review/


    RPS are normally quite indie-friendly. The review does not instill much confidence in the level of fun in the game, unless of course you are a masochist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eugene View Post
    TB should really do a TLDW trailer for his reviews so you can get a brief idea before committing to a 30min video...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DarthMol View Post
    TB should really do a TLDW trailer for his reviews so you can get a brief idea before committing to a 30min video...

    exactly my thoughts! I saw the time on that vid and just skipped it.

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    I like putting his vids on in the background while I do something else (prep food, clean, etc). He's very descriptive so I only need to glance at the video occasionally to see what's going on.

    The game itself seems interesting, but a bit dreary. I like a good management sim, but this doesn't' seem hugely compelling.

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