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Banished

Shining Rock Software LLC

Released Feb 18, 2014 · Windows · Indie, Simulation, Strategy · Metacritic 73

Art style Realistic 3D

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.

5 elements · 2 screen types covered · Steam page

Banished - Crop Field: crop dropdown open over a freshly tilled riverside field Banished - Orchard: fruit-tree dropdown open, Map and town panel alongside Banished - Professions, Town Hall Food graph, Resource Limits on one screen Banished - Trading Post: Cayde the merchant, two inventories, one barter Banished - Market inventory at 33% full, under the town's Resource Limits panel
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Crop Field: crop dropdown open over a freshly tilled riverside field · City & Base Management

UI at a glance: the patterns that recur across this game's screens are detail panel (3), dropdown list (2), stat panel (2), data table (2).

City & Base Management

Banished - Crop Field: crop dropdown open over a freshly tilled riverside field Banished - Orchard: fruit-tree dropdown open, Map and town panel alongside Banished - Professions, Town Hall Food graph, Resource Limits on one screen

Trade / Economy

Banished - Trading Post: Cayde the merchant, two inventories, one barter Banished - Market inventory at 33% full, under the town's Resource Limits panel

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