SimCity’s influence, both on the strategy genre and on gaming in general, is immense. Still, the past few years have seen an explosion of clever city builders taking some huge steps toward developing ...

Banished strips the complexities of the city-building genre to their essentials. Shining Rock Software has rolled the genre back to the middle ages. There's no sewer system to manage, no power grid to ...

This is part of our weekly 'Indie Watch' series of game reviews. Check here on Sundays for more posts in the series. "Get busy living, or get busy dying." That famous line, said by Tim Robbins in the ...

Banished is a city builder, about as solo an experience as you can get. So why has it made Brenna feel more like part of a community than any number of multiplayer titles? The product of Shining Rock ...

Golden Grove, I remember you well. My first ever settlement in one-man indie endeavour, Banished. It was meant to be a utopia, where there would be food, clothes, medicine and plenty of firewood ...

I’m writing this at the tail-end of a week in which Banished has given me blackened, sore eyes, a pounding head, and an ache in my back. Y’see, I have spent every spare minute of my time from Sunday ...