It's not easy to tell how much food a villager is going to eat or how much firewood they'll burn. The game cloaks itself in a very particular sort of opacity. The first time this happens it can be very difficult to grasp why and how things unfolded as they did. As people die, the amount of villagers available who can fill these jobs dwindles. Fail to harvest enough food and people die. Fail to make enough firewood and people die. With maybe a dozen people at your disposal, these first assignments will have a profound effect on everybody. Some, such as the woodcutter, only need one man or woman, but a hunter's lodge, a forester's hut or a farmer's field could be staffed by several, should you choose. 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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