I quite enjoyed it, even if didn't play as much as I wanted. Really liked the historical and survival aspect of it, that requires a different mindset from the usual city builders. Without mods is a bit sparse in terms of content with very few available buildings and a lot of limitations on where to put them in the terrain (structured in a very rigid square based placement). But like I said, I enjoyed it and it's really unique in the market. Recomended.
This is the kind of game that you come back and play once a year or so. This is the comfortable pajamas of video games. You take on keeping a group of settlers alive in a medieval setting, with no combat at all- but plenty of ways to lose your people. Starvation, illness, and the elements will steal your workers away from you if you aren't careful, but once you find a balance and learn how to get over the initial difficulty, it becomes very rewarding to watch your village grow and collect more resources for them.
There's tons of mods for this also, adding all kinds of new buildings and jobs for your settlers, so there's plenty to do. The music and sound effects are very mellow, and while the graphics are nothing special, they're not ugly either. A recommended play if you just want to sit and chill.
There's tons of mods for this also, adding all kinds of new buildings and jobs for your settlers, so there's plenty to do. The music and sound effects are very mellow, and while the graphics are nothing special, they're not ugly either. A recommended play if you just want to sit and chill.
This game is so stressfull but in a fun way. The biggest flaw of the game is that it becomes less fun the deeper you get into a playthrough, because nothing is quite as fun as the initial struggle to stabilize.
Oxygen Not Included is pretty much a superior survival game disguised as a city builder, unless you prefer the setting of this one I guess.
Oxygen Not Included is pretty much a superior survival game disguised as a city builder, unless you prefer the setting of this one I guess.
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Kinda hard! Kinda boring!
Similar thoughts to other people - very fun initial struggle followed by lots of waiting without any looming danger
J'aime pourtant les jeux de gestion, mais celui là est quand même assez rébarbatif...
While this is the game that started the craze for these types of village building simulators (apparently also in turn inspired by dwarf fortress), this is pretty unpolished and fairly barebones in some respects
Comfy...
Who'd have known that this game spawned a whole subgenre? Very impressive game, even moreso considering that it was written from scratch by a single person.
I keep coming back to this almost every year. Still a gem.
I keep coming back to this almost every year. Still a gem.
Very fun, but does not hold up in the current age with all of the other village building games. Back in the day though it was revolutionary.
the micromanagement in this doesn't feel as satisfying as in other games of its kind
kinda feels like theres not a lot to do in it
+ One of the better medieval city-builders out there.
- Quite clunky and janky at times.
- Felt quite lackluster, especially compared with some of the other, more advanced citybuilders.
- Quite clunky and janky at times.
- Felt quite lackluster, especially compared with some of the other, more advanced citybuilders.
I can see the reasons why this game is so highly regarded, but I think the AI problems are massively downplayed. I started the genre recently with Wandering Village and went from there to the more known/well received. For this one, I've already went through 3 different attempts and they all failed for the same reason. Duke Nukem knew what sex is, and he didn't tell ANY of these motherfuckers. Keeping happiness high, health high, stocking up on food, good stock of tools and clothes, none of these are what actually makes the population grow. It's a specific set of actions at the right time and the hope that they'll not screw up the family distributions once you start building or upgrading houses.
And my God this game is slow. It's the only one I've seen with a 10x speed and somehow it feels even slower than other city builders at 2x. It's a good game on theory. On practice it's one of the most boring games I've ever played and if it was the one recommended to me as "beginner friendly" I would've given up on this genre altogether. At the very least it made me appreciate the Londoners more because, as annoying and disruptive as they are, they still do their fucking job and only ruin a run if you actually screw up.
"The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource." And by far the most whimsical to manage of them all...
And my God this game is slow. It's the only one I've seen with a 10x speed and somehow it feels even slower than other city builders at 2x. It's a good game on theory. On practice it's one of the most boring games I've ever played and if it was the one recommended to me as "beginner friendly" I would've given up on this genre altogether. At the very least it made me appreciate the Londoners more because, as annoying and disruptive as they are, they still do their fucking job and only ruin a run if you actually screw up.
"The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource." And by far the most whimsical to manage of them all...
Charming but bloody hard. I give it another shot every year or so and almost always, my village freezes to death. Love it.
It's alright but this is REALLY a survival game over a city builder, this has absolutely nothing to do with making anything look a certain way which is really the downfall for me at the end of the day. but if you like a challenge and like survival then this is simple and fairly repayable but easily gets old after a while
it had me really hooked for like 3 days i couldnt put it down and kept getting mad when my people died but eventually i figured it out and my success became boring so i guess thats it
This game is harder than it looks like, getting a good balance of every resources is pretty hard. It's got a simple design and it's the kind of game you dust off your shelf every eight months or so to play for a few days
Colonial Charter is the way
One of the games that really got me into city builders.
This seemed fine, and maybe there was something to it if I gave it another chance, but it just didn't grab me in a way I'd hope a city builder/strategy would. I like the art style though.
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A ver... La idea de este simulador ME FLIPA y conecta directamente conmigo.
Ahora... Cero progresión a partir de cierto momento, una UI/UX anticuada, que en estos juegos es algo clave, y una dificultad un tanto rara, pero como concepto está bien.
Ahora... Cero progresión a partir de cierto momento, una UI/UX anticuada, que en estos juegos es algo clave, y una dificultad un tanto rara, pero como concepto está bien.
Remember it being a blast, mastered it relatively quick though (IMO).
Great concept and all, but once you know what to do there is no more challenge
People bash it and i can see why but let this get on the way considering that THIS IS THE GOLDEN STANDARD for Colony Builder games, the game shows its age but up to this day there are projects that have been in active development for almost half a decade and have NOTHING to show for it, vs banished's 2 year development, anything better than this is a great game, if it cant match Banished it is a waste of time,even now i still come back to this game just to have a good old time, cant say i do the same for some of its competitors,COMPETITORS THAT SOME HAVE COME OUT THIS AND LAST YEAR MAY I ADD
FIrst and only city builder managment tiype game i played make of that what u will
Goated for it's community mod intergration. It's got good bones
i don't like this genre but I keep trying to play it