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2014USK 12PC, Steam Deck playable90 % positive18.99 €

A calm yet unforgiving city builder where you guide a band of exiles through harsh winters. You have to balance food, firewood and population growth carefully, or the whole settlement collapses.

  • Resources and survival
  • Economy and management
  • Building and crafting
  • Sandbox with your own goals
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In short: Games like Banished

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Banished special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

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Games where this is clearly part of it are left out, no matter how well the rest fits.

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Manor Lords

92 %Match

2024PEGI 12PC, Xbox, Steam Deck playable84 % positive39.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Banished: economy and management, building and crafting as well as a sandbox with your own goals.

A medieval city-builder and strategy game where you grow a 14th-century Franconian village through detailed production chains. It adds tactical real-time battles and a strong focus on historical authenticity.

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Caesar III

Sandbox with your own goals

A classic city builder set in ancient Rome: you keep citizens fed, watered, entertained and protected while managing trade and provinces. The blend of logistics and careful planning is its main appeal.

Farthest Frontier

Resources and survival

A detailed city-builder with survival pressure where you found a settlement in the wilderness, manage resources and keep your villagers alive through seasons, disease and raiders.

Settlement Survival

Resources and survival

A city-builder where you guide survivors to a new home: clear land, grow crops, hunt, gather resources and develop trade and professions until a large, thriving settlement emerges.

Dawn of Man

Resources and survival

A settlement-building survival sim where you lead a prehistoric tribe from the Stone Age toward the Bronze Age, managing resources, researching technologies and weathering hunger, seasons and predators.

Foundation

Sandbox with your own goals

A relaxed medieval city-builder where towns grow organically without a rigid grid and you manage resource chains. Full mod support and a creative sandbox approach invite long, calm building sessions.

Patron

Resources and survival

Patron is a survival city builder where you grow a small village into a city while managing resources. Its standout feature is a social dynamics system: you must keep tensions among citizens in check before they boil over.

Pharaoh

Deep systems to master

A classic ancient Egypt city builder where you lay out housing, farm around the Nile floods, manage trade and raise monuments like pyramids. Supply logistics, pleasing the gods and occasional invasions make for a calm yet demanding flow.

Life is Feudal: Forest Village

Resources and survival

A medieval city builder with survival elements: you lead new settlers through harsh conditions, keep them fed with varied crops, and expand your village step by step. You can also possess villagers to micromanage them directly.

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