Banished (GOG) - Indie PC Game [2014]

You start with the minimal needed to begin your soon-to-be expansive town. The basics are pretty simple to grasp -- keep your people warm and fed, give them a place to live, and make sure they have tools to survive. It's much harder and more challenging than it sounds, but it is also extremely rewarding once you've got a thriving town. Don't think it will last long though! There's a population to grow, more land to settle, the occasional disaster, a trading-post to manage, and the ever-present feeling that you could be doing better if you just did one or two things differently an hour ago... but that's what the next game is for... and then there's the *hard* difficulty.

And yes, I helped test the game (for almost 40 hours), but I had so much fun that I will be playing at least 40 more. Luke did an amazing job with Banished! Congrats!


METACRITIC 73/100