Banished overview

Overview

Banished comes from Shining Rock Software LLC and is published by Shining Rock Software LLC. It arrived on Steam on Feb 18, 2014, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Banished's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 332 players at 22 September 2026 - 07:45:53 UTC, with a tracked peak near 24,568. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 90% positive across 43,090 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Banished is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Banished has sold up to 2,700,000 units and has 37,900 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $34,100,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Banished overview details

Banished combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource. They are born, grow older, work, have children of their own, and eventually die. Keeping them healthy, happy, and well-fed are essential to making your town grow. Building new homes is not enough—there must be enough people to move in and have families of their own. Banished has no skill trees. Any structure can be built at any time, provided that your people have collected the resources to do so. There is no money. Instead, your hard-earned resources can be bartered away with the arrival of trade vessels. These merchants are the key to adding livestock and annual crops to the townspeople’s diet; however, their lengthy trade route comes with the risk of bringing illnesses from abroad. There are twenty different occupations that the people in the city can perform from farming, hunting, and blacksmithing, to mining, teaching, and healing. No single strategy will succeed for every town. Some resources may be more scarce from one map to the next. The player can choose to replant forests, mine for iron, and quarry for rock, but all these choices require setting aside space into which you cannot expand. The success or failure of a town depends on the appropriate management of risks and resources.

SteamPulse editorial summary

Banished is listed as a game with $19.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 332 players at 22 September 2026 - 07:45:53 UTC, a tracked peak of 24,568, and 90% positive reviews.

Overview tags

City BuilderColony SimStrategySimulationSurvivalIndieSingleplayerSandboxMedievalResource ManagementRelaxingEconomyBuildingManagementOpen World

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