My favourite so far is Wetumpkins.Īlmost every building you lay down will have a particular role tied to it and it's up to you to assign it villagers. The game's random name generator has given me village names like Ironwoodwood and Melvillerville. Nobody will ever need or ask for or even dream about any sort of luxury. Villagers will need homes, they'll need woodcutters to supply kindling, a blacksmith to make them tools, crops to fill their aching bellies. Land must be cleared, plots laid out and those first, most critical buildings constructed. So it goes.Įach game begins with a handful of villagers, a limited stock of supplies and seeds, a new procedurally-generated map and a few months before winter sweeps in.
The reward for success is another year scraping at the earth, chopping firewood or tending a flaming forge.
There doesn't necessarily need to be, mind, because it's often a struggle just to get by. There are no great goals to work towards there's no endgame or campaign. Progress is slow, drama is rare and the day-to-day lives of those whose homes you watch over are mostly lives of hardship and hunger. It's not really a city-building game so much as a village-maintaining game, a game of modesty - even mundanity. So, philosophically, I'm somewhat at odds with Banished. Inside me, very quietly, very determinedly, I strive. I do know that I want more, that I need to keep aspiring to things, and I think life should have its fair share of excitement, of passion, of burning desires and glorious fulfilment. I'll be straight with you here: I'm not sure what I want next in life.
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