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Banished

IndieSimulationStrategy

Developer Shining Rock Software LLC

Banished is a city-building video game developed by Shining Rock Software. It was released for Windows on February 18, 2014. The game focuses on careful resource management and survival as an isolated and growing society. Its gameplay can be compared with economic theory on sustainability and optimization. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 22, 2024

    I'll be talking about a lot about a new project soon so there won't be much space for The Banished Vault - a strategy game of endurance in space travel, mathematics, and gothic monasteries. If it interests you or someone you know, please share or check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/...

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2025

    Oh hey The Banished Vault is on sale now! Explore and survive solar systems in a gothic monastery, with analog game inspirations and presentation. Also a whole manual to read if you want! store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/...

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  • ZombieCleo @zombiecleo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    Is there a newer city/colony builder game in the style and difficulty of Banished with tech trees etc that I am missing? Any reccommendations?

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  • Pixel, Glitch, & Widget @pixelglitchwidget.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    Banished from the board game AGAIN In an unexpected maneuver, I was plopped into my big donut ON THE TABLE so I can watch and still feel involved, as if that would even work (It worked and this might be my new favorite thing) Please respect my privacy while I process these complicated feelings

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  • 💘Beth C Greenberg✍️ Cupid's Fall series 📚 @bethcgreenberg.comBluesky · Nov 14, 2024

    💘Love is a game Cupid can only play from the sidelines, and one day he takes that game too far. Banished to Earth, he's cursed with forbidden love. A sexy cozy fantasy about modern love, ancient gods, & the mortals caught in the crossfire 👉https://bit.ly/3k86IXX

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    THE BANISHED VAULT is on SALE for 33% off. Buy it! Buy it for a friend! Help support development on future games. store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/...

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2025

    We'll be talking a lot about The Banished Vault this week, and it's on sale until Sunday. It would mean a lot to us if you shared the game among your friends! I promise a "hey check this out" message is the number one way to get a niche game in front of people who are interested in it.

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    The Banished Vault is on sale! A strategy game of exploring proc-gen solar systems, contending with the rocket equation, and the planning & resource management required to overcome both. Give it a whirl or buy it for your friend who likes the most complex board games imaginable – they'll like it.

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    It's been just over two years since we announced The Banished Vault! The next thing 🟠 is *almost* ready to be revealed 👀 – if you're someone who writes about game announcements and wants to get info early, DMs are open.

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  • Vibrant Rida ✨ (closed commissions) @vibrantrida.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    the game is Banished currently on sale on Steam, it is 3d medieval Rimworld, its an old game

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2023

    The Banished Vault is out! A strategy game of exploration and endurance, guide your Exiles through hostile solar systems to the safety of hibernation on your interstellar gothic monastery, the Auriga Vault. Available now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/The_Banished_Vault/

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2024

    4. Banished I loved a lot of strategy games growing up, the likes of Command & Conquer, Age of Empires 2, so when I played Banished it was like a revaluation that I could do all the buildy managey stuff without combat, and had a huge influence on my taste. store.steampowered.com/app/242920/B...

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  • Bithell Games @bithellgames.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    Amberspire is very much a strategy game, even if it's a bit more forgiving than The Banished Vault. The more your city grows, the more carefully you'll need to plan your turns, manage your resources, and weather factions and terrain events. OUT NOW on Steam! 🌇 s.team/a/3350750

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    The Banished Vault is on sale! It's a strategy game about the difficult and terror of space travel. It uses nearly-correct math to determine delta-v, resources strictly tracked in the world, and dice rolls to simulate anomalies. There's lots more but the included manual explains the rest!

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  • Folklands - Wishlist on Steam ✨ @folklandsgame.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2025

    You will like our indie game if you enjoyed 🪵: - Settlers 2/3/4 - The Anno series - Caesar / Pharaoh - Banished #indiegame #settlementbuilder #wishlistwednesday

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  • Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2024

    "Some indies are successful!" 🤣 The number of indie games on steam that earn their creator a living wage is less than 5%. You're arguing that WINNING THE LOTTERY is going to fund game dev for the next three years. Banished.

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2023

    The Banished Vault, my strategy game of exploring space in an interstellar gothic monastery, has a release date! July 25th, available here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/The_Banished_Vault/

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  • Kyle Kukshtel @kkukshtel.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2024

    New episode of my podcast Game Data! I sat down with @nictringali.bsky.social to talk all about The Banished Vault, making weird digital boardgames, procedural generation, and everything in between! #gamedev #unity #turnbased #indiegame www.gamedatapodcast.com/p/nic-tringa...

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  • Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2025

    The Banished Vault ($16.74) - a strategy game with a heart that is equal parts vicious and viscous, keeping you under suffocating pressure the whole time. keep your exiles alive however you can on the Auriga Vault, an interstellar goth monastery. store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/...

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  • Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    The Banished Vault ($16.74) - a strategy game that has a heart pulsing with a vicious, and viscous, desire to put you under suffocating pressure. keep your exiles alive on their journey with t he Auriga Vault, an interstellar goth monastery. store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/...

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2023

    The Banished Vault getting 8th (!!!) on game of the year lists is not something I'm prepared for

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  • Real_Halo_MC @callmereal.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    Unironically if and when the flood return to Halo, I hope there's no mention of them in the marketing for the game they're in. Give me a Halo CE style reveal Investigating a Banished facility. We hear some gunfire then silence. Maybe earlier in the game we see Banished infighting too to mislead us

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2026

    If you want a tabletop inspired strategy game to tide you over until Amberspire releases on Wednesday, perhaps consider a completely different game by the same team in The Banished Vault:

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  • Stephen Maurice Graham @smgdraws.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2026

    Boss monster illustrations: 'Banished Bandages' 🤕 'Laser Mouse' 🐭 'Calamity Gammon' 🐹 'Prophet of the Profit' 📉 all taken from @lostincult.co.uk's trivia card game 'Do You Know Gaming?'

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  • Dan Morison @darkmechanic.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Banished Vault, Cyberpunk 2077, Helldivers 2, Hexen Remaster, another No Mans Sky playthrough, Disco Elysium, another Elden ring playthrough - look how burdened I am with entertainment, each game will take me 6 months to play

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  • Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2023

    It's a day for being sad in space as Cado and I play Banished Vault and Telltale's Expanse Game. twitch.tv/remapradio

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  • Albert · Trails of Suebia @albedood.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 5 Banished #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky #IndieDev

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  • OhhJim @ohhjim.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2026

    Every so often, some dope posts on the Banished forum that the developer has abandoned the game. We have to explain that the game is finished. Done. Complete. Not “abandoned”.

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  • Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2024

    I wrote for @graysonmorley.bsky.social's Backlog about The Banished Vault, a game that made me feel some kind of way. Read on for some thoughts about gaming, loss, and the things we leave behind. Rarely have I felt such a visceral emptiness upon finishing a game. www.backlogmag.com/the-banished...

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2024

    Lots of new folks who may not know me: The Banished Vault is a strategy game about the scale and horror of space travel, wrapped into a gothic monastery. It is quite hard! But there is a whole game manual (in game or physical) and tutorial video series to help at www.bithellgames.com/the-banished...

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  • nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    @mode7games.bsky.social and DREAMTRAK absolutely killed on the music for The Banished Vault. go pick it up here nervoustestpilot.bandcamp.com/album/the-ba...

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  • Teufelaffe @teufelaffe.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2025

    The Banished Vault is a gorgeous board game, for which you could purchase a physical copy of the rulebook, even though it's never actually been a physical game.

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  • DawnOfTimeBC @dawnoftimebc.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    This week's Saturday Sampler VOD is up! Game lineup: ⦁ Dragonkin: The Banished ⦁ Yet Another Zombie Survivors ⦁ Duskfade Catch the VOD here: youtu.be/noDk-k-WxIs #indiegames #saturdaysampler

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  • "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    I don't think we can classify Banished - a game that single-handedly revived and fundamentally altered the pre-modern city-builder genre, spawning a legion of imitators - as a 'mid' game.

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  • Katrice Metaluna @katricemetaluna.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Banished is an 11 year old game. But I only just now figured out that when you isolate a single wild tree by cutting down all the other trees around it, it will spawn others of its kind eventually and after a long time there will be nothing but that kind of tree all over that area.

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  • DionAcre @dionacre.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    Looking for 5 early‑alpha testers. DionAcre is a Banished‑like colony survival game set in the 1600s Black Forest. Early alpha, invite‑only. If you’d like to help shape the game, request an invite here: dionmccollough.ddns.net:9443/Dionacre/

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  • OzvenomDnD @ozvenomdnd.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    Or a base management game about the outer colony planets made by Klei Entertainment (Oxygen Not Included), a stealth action game where your targets are key human and Covenant/Banished commanders, all of that would be amazing. But they HAVE to make it feel like the AAA super duper action FPS.

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  • 💀 Spooky Paranoia 💀 @toolofparanoia.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    I liked the Halo Wars series. Need another one of those since Infinite included the Banished in their game.

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  • Alex Antra - Reconnect, The games writing discovery platform @antranaut.comBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    Reconnect Recommends: Dragonkin: The Banished Feels Like A Fake Video Game #gaming #videogames

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  • ▲▼▲▼▲▼ @arajay.comBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    "ok so it's 'Banished' right..." "that game from 10 years ago?" "hear me out: ...but it's cute little mice." "HOLY $$$HIT DUDE!!!"

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  • Frazer @frazwahg.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    So upon finally reaching Malenia again in Elden Ring (after around 200+ hours of assorted other playthroughs where I left her be) I've learned two things. 1: I've definitely gotten better at the game overall (unsurprising but nice) 2: Banished Knight Engval is the GOAT.

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  • Tipa @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 27, 2024

    Manor Lords might be okay, actually City builder sims usually are so addictive that often avoid them, but I couldn't resist this one; it has the one feature I always wanted from this type of game. https://chasingdings.com/2024/04/27/manor-lords-might-be-okay-actually/ #ManorLords #OtherGames #Anno1404 #banished #CityBuilder #LifeIsFeudal

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  • ladyteruki @ladyterukiMastodon · Nov 15, 2022

    @faeldray : I love that you listed very different games ! #ArkSurvivalEvolved, #Rimworld and #TheSims franchise (although I prefer TS2 personally) are also on my list ! I miss #Banished, I can't play it anymore for some reason, it refuses to start on Steam.

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  • GlowDonk - The Xbox Avatar Guy @glowdonk.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    I want a protagonist who is a spartan 4 that works for the Banished, a proper Halo game where you're on the other side for once

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  • Stefan Rink @stefanrink.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    Seems like a pretty fun game by the way. A mix between Rimworld and Banished as far as I've seen but just did the tutorial so I could be really wrong.

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  • Zeirlynn @zeirlynn.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    *Banished* is currently on sale on @gog.com ! Easily one of my top favorite games ever. 🩵 www.gog.com/en/game/bani...

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  • Katrice Metaluna @katricemetaluna.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    I've always had performance issues with Banished. The game would become a slog fest when the population approached 200+ or so. But I see other people on YT playing the game with a lot more than that. So I'm guessing it must be the mods I'm trying to use.

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  • OzvenomDnD @ozvenomdnd.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    What they need to do is let smaller game companies use the IP. Imagine an Arrowhead game where you play as ODSTs or Marines in ground wars against the Covenant, Flood, and Banished that is like Helldivers 2. Or a survival horror shooter featuring the Flood made by the Outlast dev, Red Barrels.

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  • Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    Btw did u ever play the game Banished?

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  • 🐟🐟🐟 @[email protected]Mastodon · May 3, 2026

    omg! i'm playing #banished. i played most of the tutorial before so i just played a new game despite almost forgetting the mechanics (which i don't usually do). so after a year, i've lost most of my 20 (?) people because starvation because i suck, and through winter, i was left with a family of 3. i think they survived because they got the posh stone house while everyone was living in the wood house and the barracks. come mid-winter and they give me a +1. i'm like gorlll in this economy? 🤦‍♀️

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  • theNameless @JustUs4PaliMastodon · Apr 19, 2025

    ...one of my most fav #games is #arksurvival (cos like, running free crafting shit and playing with dinos!!!! radical!)...but my little hobo leg burner cant handle even the lowest of low settings for that one so i sub with #banished, which is really how i feel, and store my installed games on #playnite to subvert the "you will never really own this game" bs of the game usage licensure leasing #valve jerks of #steam...

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  • Jupiter Sigh @[email protected]Mastodon · Aug 31, 2024

    Sometimes you just need to go home. Banished and Stardew Valley together got me through my degrees several years ago now. They were both games that ran well on my very low spec, refurbished, inexpensive laptop and were just the level of immersion I needed. I'm trying out a mod I haven't tried before: DS Small Village. #gaming #Banished

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  • GameSense.co @gamesenseMastodon · Feb 29, 2024

    Publisher Nacon and developer Eko Software have announced isometric action RPG Dragonkin: The Banished for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (Steam). #Banished https://gamesense.co/game/banished/news/discuss/isometric-action-rpg-dragonkin-the-banished-announced-for-ps5-xbox-series-and-pc/

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  • Dr C @[email protected]Mastodon · Nov 20, 2023

    Currently I'm in great need of #flow (a lovely state of creative concentration) as we are in the midst of building work, my mum is very ill and my job is precarious. Many of my normal outlets are blocked but I'm finding flow in #crossstitch, #murderattheendoftheworld on Disney and the game #banished.

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  • Ashantin @[email protected]Mastodon · Jul 25, 2023

    Banished Megamod 9 Steam Version E37 Working On Tools But Hit By A Tornado #Banished Megamod https://youtu.be/UECWek5s0QU

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  • hockeybabbler @[email protected]Mastodon · Nov 19, 2022

    i go without capital letters most of the time to show my disdain for capitalism. just kidding, it's actually to reflect how low energy i sound unless i get excited which i try to portray w/the appropriate words emphasized. you'll know it when you see it. i play a lot of games that i'm not very good at but that i enjoy anyways, most notably: #cryptofthenecrodancer #banished #rimworld and #NoMansSky sometimes i talk about sports besides hockey/baseball. just not as regularly.

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  • Phobos D'thorga :ms_awoo:​ @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 11, 2020

    I've discovered a sort of 'spiritual successor' to #Banished, a #citybuilding/#simulation #PC #videogame that is beloved by many for both its simplicity and how in-depth it goes with some of the mechanics. #Ostriv takes those elements a step further :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/773790/Ostriv/

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