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A calm yet unforgiving city builder where you guide a band of exiles through harsh winters. You have to balance food, firewood and population growth carefully, or the whole settlement collapses.
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The closest matches for Banished are Manor Lords, Life is Feudal: Forest Village and Patron. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Banished special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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Best match
A medieval city-builder and strategy game where you grow a 14th-century Franconian village through detailed production chains. It adds tactical real-time battles and a strong focus on historical authenticity.
89 % 22.99 €
Challenging difficulty
A medieval city builder with survival elements: you lead new settlers through harsh conditions, keep them fed with varied crops, and expand your village step by step. You can also possess villagers to micromanage them directly.
88 % 19.99 €
Realistic visuals
Patron is a survival city builder where you grow a small village into a city while managing resources. Its standout feature is a social dynamics system: you must keep tensions among citizens in check before they boil over.
88 % 33.99 €
Realistic visuals
A detailed city-builder with survival pressure where you found a settlement in the wilderness, manage resources and keep your villagers alive through seasons, disease and raiders.
88 % 4.99 €
Challenging difficulty
A realistic WWII submarine simulation where you command a German U-boat, hunting convoys, calculating torpedo solutions and managing your crew. Patience, navigation and tactical judgment decide success across the open Atlantic.
87 %
Realistic visuals
A classic city builder set in ancient Rome: you keep citizens fed, watered, entertained and protected while managing trade and provinces. The blend of logistics and careful planning is its main appeal.
86 % 20.99 €
Realistic visuals
A city-builder set in 18th-century Ukraine where you govern a town, laying out organic settlements without grid or angle limits on 3D terrain while managing the economy and your villagers.
86 % 33.99 €
Pure single-player experience
A relaxed medieval city-builder where towns grow organically without a rigid grid and you manage resource chains. Full mod support and a creative sandbox approach invite long, calm building sessions.
86 % 24.50 €
Pure single-player experience
A settlement-building survival sim where you lead a prehistoric tribe from the Stone Age toward the Bronze Age, managing resources, researching technologies and weathering hunger, seasons and predators.
85 % −66 %Pure single-player experience
A relaxed city-building sim where you grow a small hamlet into a kingdom with an imposing castle. Viking raids, dragons and harsh winters keep planning and defense important.
