The city builder genre may have made its name by allowing players to create incredible modern worlds, but Banished shows how brilliant the genre can be when it takes a step back in time.
As the head of a band of exiled travelers looking to settle down in Banished, you won't be tasked with creating grand structures and civilizations. However, ensuring the survival and prosperity of your people soon proves to be the greatest motivator of them all.
Banished's focus on the more personal elements of crafting a utopia makes it stand out in a genre already responsible for some of the all-time great video games.
A strategic battle against zombies in the garden at home