In AwayYou guide a group of exiled travelers determined to rebuild their lives in a harsh new land, starting with little more than their clothes and a cart of supplies from their homeland. The town’s inhabitants are its most vital resource, as they live complete life cycles: they are born, grow old, work, start families, and finally die. Maintaining your health, happiness, and nutrition is crucial to the growth of your settlement, as simply building new houses is not enough without enough people to inhabit them and continue the population. The game does not feature skill trees; Instead, any building can be constructed once the necessary resources have been gathered. Without a monetary system, resources become your currency, and merchant ships arriving on long, risky routes allow you to barter for livestock and crops, although these visitors can also introduce disease. Banished offers a complex challenge through its twenty different occupations, including farming, hunting, blacksmithing, mining, teaching, and healing, requiring careful allocation of your workforce. Each map features unique resource availability, requiring adaptive strategies to manage forests, iron mines, and quarries, all of which consume valuable space and limit expansion. Success depends on balancing resource gathering, population growth, and risk management, as no single approach guarantees victory. The game’s open design encourages experimentation with various tactics to sustain your city through changing seasons and unforeseen difficulties, providing a deep and rewarding city-building experience based on survival and careful planning.

  • Control a dynamic population with life cycles and twenty occupations.
  • Build any structure at any time with gathered resources, without skill trees.
  • Exchange resources with merchants while managing disease risk.
  • Adapt to varied maps with scarce and renewable resources.
  • Balance expansion, resource management and population growth to survive

System requirements

  • OS*: Win XP SP3/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
  • Processor: 2 GHz dual-core Intel processor
  • Memory: 512MB RAM
  • Graphics: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 2)
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 250 MB available space
  • Sound card: Any

Screenshots

Banished PC Screenshot

Screenshot of the banished game

How to install Banished (v1.0.7)

  • Click the download button below or in the top of the page
  • You’ll be redirected to the specific game installer download page.
  • Download the game installer, this allows you to download the game from the nearest possible server. We use it to improve download speeds, ensuring stable and smooth experience
  • Disable Windows Defender and any installed Anti-Virus software before installation, most will flag the file as false-true due to the nature of the installer
  • Follow the game installer instructions, wait for the download to finish
  • That’s it, enjoy gaming!