10 Years Ago, This Game Changed an Entire Genre

10 Years Ago, This Game Changed an Entire Genre | Banished

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2 ай бұрын

Almost exactly 10 years ago, Banished revolutionized the city-builder, offering a new element of survival and management that captured the imagination of an entire genre. In many ways, this game is the father of all survival city-builders and remains a fantastic - if older and simplistic - game to this day.
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@relogos 2 ай бұрын

Banished is 10 years old... Fuck, I'm old.

@Kartus68 2 ай бұрын

lol, i hear you. i still dust this game off and play it, one of my faves.

@heatherharrison264 2 ай бұрын

The first video games I played are more than 40 years old. If you're old, I'm ancient.

@StefanKoran 2 ай бұрын

same^^

@alfreddelcrow9941 2 ай бұрын

Same reaction my friend 👍😁

@robertnett9793 2 ай бұрын

One of the first titles I played was 'Civilisation'. No... no numbers attached.

@robid 2 ай бұрын

I've always thought the secret weapon of Banished is that there's no money, only resources

@thecpt6265 Ай бұрын

real, every game since added gold, coins, tokens, etc. It ruined the appeal of banished, true survival.

@TheMoroPL Ай бұрын

money is a resource just like any other economic good, but I agree there's never been a game where money management is interesting.

@yoansirot8650 27 күн бұрын

@@thecpt6265 not timberborn

@wembley636 20 күн бұрын

@@TheMoroPL Money isn't a resource it's an invention, from people, just like politics, boarders etc.

@TheMoroPL 20 күн бұрын

@@wembley636 sure, just like politics and borders can be owned by inviduals, their prices determined by supply and demand.

@lanhouse_ch 2 ай бұрын

not to mention that this game was developped by 1 man only. What a beast

@cathunter3874 2 ай бұрын

he is working on a new one apparently, I cannot wait

@ragingraichu219 2 ай бұрын

@@cathunter3874 Is he? O.O

@LirqFalco 2 ай бұрын

@@cathunter3874 From what I can tell, the developer hasn't said anything about development on the new game in a couple of years. I hope it's still coming but it might not.

@terrylyn 2 ай бұрын

Not to mention he didn't use any off-the-shelf engine but created everything from scratch. The amount of work and pure skill he had put into this game is insane.

@littlekong7685 2 ай бұрын

@@terrylyn Yes, I can see why he burnt out and cut the development short. That is an insane amount of work to deal with on top of optimization, balancing, steam forums and bug reporting.

@ricorommeldumaplin4822 2 ай бұрын

From a bustling town into a ghost town in an instant because of one disaster, an ending I did not expect

@heinzie5 3 күн бұрын

That's exactly what i expected from this unbalanced game

@s0niKu 9 күн бұрын

It's funny - I never thought of Banished as having defined a genre because at the time it came out I just thought of it as a Dwarf Fortress-like. But it probably was the first hit survival city builder that actually took off.

@ivolol 5 күн бұрын

There's probably many genres that have simmered under the currents of human interest, until that one example came out that had just enough accessibility to invite the "average punter" to try their dumb luck at it, fail, but still have fun doing so - and so finally explode.

@malazanmarine2959 2 ай бұрын

This game used to be my big sister's favortie game. Shes getting married next month. I dont know why we played this as kids lol

@RootDen. 2 ай бұрын

Congrats to your sister! Also you played this, because its just a godlike RTS game..

@malazanmarine2959 2 ай бұрын

@@RootDen. Fair point

@andreasilvestrin7643 2 ай бұрын

Whoever the husband is, he is a lucky man.

@VicKang11 2 ай бұрын

@@andreasilvestrin7643very lucky

@gkr2189 2 ай бұрын

Because it's good.

@AlextheRambler 2 ай бұрын

I've got very fond memories of Banished, very nice to see you playing it all these years later!

@salsabonjour2626 2 ай бұрын

Hey there Alex! Glad to see you here.

@mre4u422 2 ай бұрын

i still go back and play from time to time whenever i can't decide what to play.

@emperorcoffee5217 2 ай бұрын

for some reason i actually expected him to ask "Banished... was it any good?" and then i remembered i was in a Pravus video, not Josh Strife Plays

@marcosdheleno 2 ай бұрын

its funny because most people learned about banished due to totalbiscuit video.

@Lightna Ай бұрын

@@marcosdheleno The question to that, though, is "WTF is Banished?"

@inductivegrunt94 2 ай бұрын

You can't write that ending! That was amazing! The tornado just perfectly ran through all of your buildings without missing a single one in its path. It looked scripted the way it moved. Honestly, best ending I've seen on this channel. The game really looks like a lot of fun and I think it could make for a pretty good series as a bit of nostalgia run of the game. Just hope no tornados run through your entire city killing 80% of the population in only 5 minutes.

@hayleyz1703 2 ай бұрын

And that's why I play with disasters off! 😂

@torgranael 2 ай бұрын

I honestly thought he had that scripted in with a mod, and that his surprise was very tongue in cheek, until seeing so many comments about their own experiences with disasters.

@Petq011 14 күн бұрын

"...So, It's like riding a bike." The kind of bike Banished is the one that you will start riding, and you won't realize the chain has been eating at your ancle until the chain reached the bone, and then you feel like hell.

@Argacyan 12 күн бұрын

I wouldn't say Banished introduced survival in the sense of disasters etc, Anno 1602 had that in 1998, but what made Banished unique is that instead of buildings it simulated people & instead of economic collapse it simulated starvation etc.

@robertnett9793 2 ай бұрын

I mean the term 'Banished-like' or 'Banished-style' is used for many a city builder. So yeah. when your game is used as a term to describe a certain genre, you've made it :D

@rageagainstmyhatchet Ай бұрын

That's what they said about the Nazi party. "We're basically the default term for fascist now.. so proud!"

@MajoradeMayhem 11 күн бұрын

[Nods approvingly] I wrote one of the most popular guides for Banished on Steam, so I'm happy to see we're in agreement on basically everything. This is an insidious little game, it's far more complex than it first looks.

@elliec4154 2 ай бұрын

That music. Just immediately makes me smile. This game is such a weird mix of so tranquil and chill, and so stressful :'D

@gabadaba5436 2 ай бұрын

Vanilla banished can get pretty stale, but throw in CC (which I never play without) and it'll easily suck up days of time

@derricknonnemacher7638 2 ай бұрын

What is cc?

@gabadaba5436 2 ай бұрын

@@derricknonnemacher7638 colonial charter. Massive mod/modpack. Adds more content than what's in the base game lol

@joenke9 2 ай бұрын

@@derricknonnemacher7638 CC is most likely the "Colonial charter" mod

@GhostCryProductions 2 ай бұрын

I found colonial charter too fragile. I would spend an hour just trying to balance the economy, but then one person is born and suddenly the whole thing collapses like a house of cards. No time to react, everyone just dies.

@jameswade1315 2 ай бұрын

Try it with Mega Mod.....

@jsapcakrrow 2 ай бұрын

I still play this game from time to time. With disasters turned off, I learned my lesson on that one! I had a great city every thing was working great then a tornado went thru the middle of my city & destroyed most of the buildings & killed about 90% of my people. There was no coming back from that & had to start a new village.

@garnetbelial 2 ай бұрын

Banished, still kicking your ass ten years later.

@SirFace4 2 ай бұрын

A Challenge!! Lets see if you CAN recover from the Tornado Hit. Run with it Pravus, bring it back.

@marcosdheleno 2 ай бұрын

the funny thing is, you could think of each new run as people running away from the prior village destroying event.

@SirFace4 2 ай бұрын

@@marcosdheleno right lol

@sandybritches 2 ай бұрын

Even when I was a kid in the sixties, the thought of children "adulting" was incomprehensible. I can imagine what it seems like to the young people of today. The truth is, though, my grandmother was working as a live-in housekeeper at the age of 6. She was married at 13. This was hundreds of years after the Middle Ages. So yeah, I can see 10 y/o kids, in the Middle Ages, living alone and taking care of themselves.

@houndofculann1793 17 күн бұрын

This is more like in the 1700-1800's than in the middle ages judging by the building designs and the fact that the hunters are using rifles

@sabrinasugar2819 2 ай бұрын

I still come back to this game. 😆 One mod I like to install is sorted stock piles. I can’t stand when my firewood can’t be stocked near the woodcutter because my laborers filled the damn thing with stone… Thanks for the tip about the colony mod! I’m definitely going to check that out. ☺️

@Blockocheesey 2 ай бұрын

This game brings back old Pravus Memories

@Petq011 13 күн бұрын

The deers are clearly going under the water, as they get a "watery" filter applied over them. They don't just run on top of the water. It's just assumed that the water is cristal clear, or something like that.

@MamaMOB 7 сағат бұрын

Watching you haphazardly throw buildings down has me beside myself!

@KaijuAKD Ай бұрын

The cascade effect is BRUTAL.

@valentinkrajzelman4649 3 күн бұрын

Banished is to this day one of my fav games, there is a simplicity that makes it so comforting to play

@lankyyyyyy 2 ай бұрын

It's been that long since it came out...? _Life is passing by too quickly for my liking._ 😮‍💨

@supercolonygame 2 ай бұрын

Survival city builders/colony sims are the best! They really encourage to strategize a lot and prepare to prevent disasters. Bummer about the huge tornado though.

@zvolchen117 2 ай бұрын

Only a few seconds in, but the game doesn't have enough of an endgame. Once you get everything settled and self sustaining. There's not much else to do. Plus you kinda need mods to get a good amount of buildings

@Wilkesy7 2 ай бұрын

its a problem a lot of these games have, once you unlocked all the buildings there isnt much more to strive towards other than a bigger population i guess

@zvolchen117 2 ай бұрын

@Wilkesy7 one of the reasons I like Against the Storm. Even after you've unlocked everything, the game still gets harder and harder.

@emilgrabowski2316 2 ай бұрын

Song of the Syx is somehow familiar and better for me

@kristinagraversgaard5328 2 ай бұрын

This is why i love Frostpunk, it gets slowly harder, and if you don't prepare well enough to make the city self-suficcient, you WILL die.

@skyleonidas9270 9 күн бұрын

For me the truly implessive thing is that banished was programmed designed and everything from scratch by one dude, game engine and everything

@shemsuhor8763 6 күн бұрын

Very similar to RCT. Although I think RCT is more complete/timeless. Banished is a similar feat, I think that's why both are legendary.

@Voland1871 2 ай бұрын

That laugh was the most pure laugh I’ve heard from Pravus.

@andya696 2 ай бұрын

i replay this just for the music; so calming.

@hound8382 2 ай бұрын

3:15 ... unless it was added by mod (but i think its vanilla), there is simple priority tool, that brings certain task to front of queue

@gregwolking 14 күн бұрын

That is a "vanilla" feature, no mod required.

@krassilverfang5504 Ай бұрын

Manor Lords is gonna capture this feeling to perfection AND deliver some combat as well, which I missed in Banished

@brigidtheirish 2 ай бұрын

Someday, I'd like to see a Medieval city builder that starts settlements the way actual settlements of the time did. A single farm that expanded with the farm owner becoming a manor lord.

@TheTwan85 2 ай бұрын

Colonial Charter is great! There's also MegaMod, which includes Colonial Charter but adds even more buildings, like single-square woodcutters for early game. And yes, gatherers huts are most efficient per worker. Which is nice for early game when you have a lot of space and very few workers. However when you get to the point you have enough workers and are running out of space, farms are better because they have higher efficiency per square 😉 Also very useful when playing a hills map without a lot of open spaces for gatherers huts. And dense forests aren't ideal for gatherers. Trees spawn in the same places as the food, so more trees = less food spawns.

@gregwolking 14 күн бұрын

"And dense forests aren't ideal for gatherers. " So true! In fact, wild food (roots, onions, berries) and herbs are more likely to spawn where (and shortly after) trees have been cut down.

@chairmandaenerys2364 2 ай бұрын

I was like "cool, I am gonna check out the price of this game on stream". And after the tornado, I was like "F**K THAT"

@generatoralignmentdevalue 2 ай бұрын

Just turn disasters off like a normal person. This is how every city builder I've played works. It's a good game worth giving a chance.

@rageagainstmyhatchet Ай бұрын

I would never play city builders with disasters. It's like building a model and having a bully come kick it all over. That's not "challenge" it's just wrecking your game/plans. There should be organic restrictions, like squalor. Try to stack all your people together and they get sick, meaning you spend more resources on health, or have to spread them out, spending more on transport.

@wesleyfuccaro8821 2 ай бұрын

I have not watched this yet but i can tell its fire already

@shiro_21 Ай бұрын

*spits tea* TEN WHAT NOW?!

@lordgong4980 2 ай бұрын

as a long Pravus fan seeing him not shitting on fishing is like a flashbang

@saal0 8 күн бұрын

Ive never felt an addiction like this in RTS games again.

@Lissa71 2 ай бұрын

I spent months and months playing this game. One of my all time favs. But I agree.. once you get into it there is no where to go with it. It just kinda ends. The only thing to stive for was huge populations. I always wished they would have expanded it more. It was the OG of settlement games for sure.

@bladesargent4189 2 ай бұрын

Love me some banished

@loopycosplay6867 2 ай бұрын

I still love playing banished 😊 I will break it out and play it obsessively sometimes

@p10228 4 күн бұрын

I’ve been playing this nonstop past weeks

@AC-kb1dc 2 ай бұрын

love this game. so peaceful just you and your town and starvation. also the ui is just so intuitive its great

@Youssii 2 ай бұрын

It’s still great and I still play it. The great mod support means there’s always new play styles you can use. It hasn’t been followed by much that’s worth playing.

@CristianZ-KRS 18 күн бұрын

Banished is one the BEST games ever made! Ten years later, i still play it, i still enjoy it, i still love it and i will most likely keep it in a special place in my heart! There is nothing in this game not to like: good graphics, amazing mechanics, superb background music, made by one single man! (God bless him!) All in all, the perfect way to relax after a hard day...10/10 would recomend!

@gregwolking 14 күн бұрын

Could not agree more. I play Banished almost every day. Have had it since it was released, and even contributed to the repair of a crash-inducing bug (by reporting accurate info to the developer) early on.

@Zer0cul0 Ай бұрын

I just think that something like this should be a mandatory requirement for every bureaucrat in office. Like if you can't keep your digital citizens alive, we aren't gonna trust you to manage the lives of real people.

@teedteed9130 8 күн бұрын

Caesar 3 is one game I can think of that had survival elements before this one and that game is old af. Feed your people, manage money, survive the angry gods, fight off enemy armies, etc

@MrAnton1502 2 ай бұрын

I still play this but with the Colonial mod... still a great game that makes your rig chug after 1000 pop

@NotKnafo 2 күн бұрын

4:26 kind of like real life

@Azr4el 17 күн бұрын

One of the first games I bought and played on my steam account just to support the developer but ended up loving it and expend lots of hours comfy expanding my cities, to this day it is still installed since it is so tiny for what it gives.

@bulldowozer5858 2 ай бұрын

"Vendors, traders. Those can make some sense/cents" Yup. That's a Dad.

@Omnifarious0 3 күн бұрын

The "professions" tab (or something very close to it) was in Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld. So, Banished got the idea from them.

@joshdoldersum9132 19 күн бұрын

I can tell you this game is still good because I did a playthrough about 3 months ago when my old PC was about to kick the bucket and I couldn't play anything modern. Banished is a sick game still today. I'll still watch your video though.

@shoulderBirb 4 күн бұрын

this game is so great, but man... getting some of the super long term achievements in vanilla are just insane

@dudeonyoutube 16 күн бұрын

Check out the new Manor Lords if you are into city building and fighting!

@carlosianaasis7345 Ай бұрын

This is actually one of the best videos for covering about the game. It's a complete package which cover the gameplay, reviews and some Tips and tricks about the game. I hope you cover more games with tips and tricks aspect.

@VictorC98 Ай бұрын

That was amazing! The playthrough and the disaster in the end, just perfect.

@gabemartinez2558 28 күн бұрын

Banished will always be the greatest city builder of all time. Some newer games may get better graphics or some nice new features but none feel as complete as Banished. They always have something about them that makes me put them down and go right back to Banished.

@theghettogourmet6762 13 күн бұрын

Deer can swim. Very well. You wouldn't think so, but they can.

@HeroNotFound05 2 ай бұрын

I was literally playing this when I was 8 years old, and am now playing it just last week

@Brotacon 23 күн бұрын

Using words like "nostalgia" and "back in the day" for a game I played when I was 25 makes me feel incredibly old haha. But then I think that's like the time between Metal Gear Solid 3 to Final Fantasy VI.

@oliverurbanik9647 Ай бұрын

Banished was.. and still is.. a great Game. Played it a lot in the past.

@heatherharrison264 2 ай бұрын

It's been some time since I have played this. Things certainly can seem to be going well, and then one bad thing happens and you have a tragedy worthy of RimWorld. I can see the influence of Banished in numerous city builders and similar games, even in games (like RimWorld) that do not initially seem to resemble it.

@CoffeeCrowgasm 2 ай бұрын

I love this game, still play it from time to time

@Destiny1G Ай бұрын

Wow 10 whole years. Time really does go by the older you get.

@jamesrizza2640 11 күн бұрын

That ending was perfect.

@Animatonic2 2 ай бұрын

It was heavily inspired by the game Dwarf fortress, which had all these features.

@rexstuff4655 15 күн бұрын

Not really. They're very different games. Not like, say, Rimworld, which was much more clearly derived from DF.

@seanrooney1553 2 ай бұрын

I do remember you can make cider from peaches (and basically any orchard fruit) at the tavern.

@TheRandyGr 2 ай бұрын

I loved this game and put in a ton of hours playing it. I stopped once I completed every achievement (some very difficult). Would love to see a Banished 2!!

@Claude-Vanlalhruaia 10 күн бұрын

Definitely on my top 3 games of all time, I wish the dev made Banished 2.

@METALFREAK03 2 ай бұрын

I routinely play this game each year. it's amazing. Can't believe its been 10 years.

@nickeypetersen5622 20 күн бұрын

It took me about 9 years to find a good gamer in banished. I found cowabunganl, who play it so well and explaining it well too😊

@fallbranch 22 күн бұрын

I left a review hoping for a sequel at the time. God... It's been 10y huh? What are your current favorites in this genre? I've enjoyed Timberborn a lot.

@steven54511 2 ай бұрын

Damn! What a way to end the video.. But as you say, quite good timing on the whole. I haven't played in yonks but this video reminded me what I've missed. I *may* just re-install with a few mods including CC and see where it takes me.

@silverfox4055 2 ай бұрын

I absolutely love this game, i still play it! I always wanted to find a game like it for some variety but there is nothing like it that goes into detail like Banished does.

@UnicornPastelPrincess 2 ай бұрын

I love this game I could spend hours playing it, even more with all the modes that are in it, the game never gets old I find myself playing it on my laptop at night when I can't sleep

@LostTimeLady 10 күн бұрын

Yes. Next question. But seriously, I still play Banished, its one of my escapism games, when I'm out of emotional energy and just need to pour all my remaining brain power into a little medieval village. (Plus the music is A tier)

@JPINFV 2 ай бұрын

I recently played it. It's still fun, but once it's "solved" it's solved. Forester/hunting cabin/gatherer trio for wood and food. Lay out a market place to plan for future layout (pause construction at this point) Quick build 4 houses to keep from freezing. Barn between the forester/hunting cabin/gatherer hut. Log cutter Tool maker School. Slowly build up population in between those steps. Add the trio along the edge of the market zone as needed.

@smilosabercat Ай бұрын

Nice vid. really brings back memories.

@staceyhulkes4710 2 ай бұрын

Love this game! The problem is the bug that plagues the game where food just disappears and people starve. You can’t get enough food. Also similar to stone.

@SuperSkyhorse 2 ай бұрын

You can actually have 3 people working in the woodcutter. You just need to manually up the number in the building

@dimanarinull9122 5 күн бұрын

and I'm here, remembering that I used to play Stronghold, Pharaoh, and Majesty... I didn't even hear about this game to this day and I played many survival city builders. many from the 2000s... some older... those games are over a decade older than this game. they don't match exactly to the gameplay(besides Stronghold and Pharaoh that REALLY resemble this game) I always thought it was stronghold that defined this genre.

@mrkampfcookie2118 8 күн бұрын

The ironic thing about this game is the housing crisis system: I always thought that it's very silly how ingame, old people block all of the home-spaces which makes young people unable to move out thus eliminating the possibility to have kids who later on carry the economy. ... Then it happened in real life.

@InvaderMik 12 күн бұрын

It’s bizarre to hear a retrospective on a 10 year old game. In my mind, Skyrim is still a modern title!

@Guardian14Acky 2 ай бұрын

Best ending of any of Pravus's videos!

@InconsistentManner 6 күн бұрын

GAWD I was soo pissed when they abandoned this game... My favorite Game until Kingdoms Reborn was released... SHIT now I'm going to go play it... Damn You Pravus

@BrotherAlpha 2 ай бұрын

I played this game when it first came out and used 1 mod to add a couple of extra speed boost modes. I think it added a x10 and a x25 option. Then I realized I couldn't get achievements with any mods installed and the based game was too slow for me. About two of three years ago I went back to the game, because I figured I would no longer be used to the much faster pace and played it again. It was still amazing. Actually got 100% achievements on Steam.

@SullySadface 2 ай бұрын

Oh hey, it's that game you got me sucked into for a few months. That's just neat.

@switch158 2 ай бұрын

Banished is still a game i go back and play actually, its become a confort game to me. You did a great job of explaining lots of the biggest pitfalls and better strategies. Honestly, when i first got it, it replaced the niche that Cesars III had filled previously, which sadly i cant even get my computer to run it anymore. Its too old, and the compatibility options dont seem to work lol

@nathanw2775 2 ай бұрын

I'm going with Wikipedia on this one: "While Herzog Zwei is regarded as the first true RTS game, the defining title for the genre was Westwood Studios's Dune II, which was followed by their seminal Command & Conquer games."

@martenkahr3365 Ай бұрын

Yeah. Age of Empires (1997) made a big splash in the RTS genre too, don't get me wrong, but as a genre-definer it comes in a distant fourth after Dune II (1993), Warcraft: Orcs and Humans (1994) and Command & Conquer (1995) in both design innovations and actual release date. It was, quite literally, described as "Civilisation meets Warcraft" at the time. The only really big thing Age of Empires did was prove that an RTS did not have to be set in a fictional setting to be commercially viable.

@wheredidileavemycell 2 ай бұрын

The mods for it are great...i love the bee keeper, brewery mod, etc

@ragingraichu219 2 ай бұрын

I love this game and still play it from time to time. It's a nice, relaxing game to play. At least until all your people start dying off due to lack of resources, anyway. DX

@Seriously_Unserious 2 ай бұрын

I do have fond memories of playing Banished. For the record, it is actually predated by the 90s classic (early 90s) The Settlers, which Banished seems almost like a spiritual successor to.

@brianshissler3263 7 күн бұрын

Still one of my top 5 games.

@icezebra 2 ай бұрын

For anyone wondering, the game Farthest Frontier (still early access, getting close to release) is an excellent banished-like game. Very intuitive if you're familiar with banished, just with much more options and a more modern feel. Def recommend.

@GraveKommander 2 ай бұрын

I love Cruise Missle Tornadoes... Fuck you in particular :D Also shout out to the music of the game, such a jewel

@cantalope6980 2 ай бұрын

I swear this game was a fever dream and the only thing I remember is my village imbetween mountains during winter and a yeti murked everyone

@LifesGuardian 2 ай бұрын

I loved Banished! I still play it every so often. It's my go to "I've got nothing else to do, what do now?" game! Edit: If you haven't tried to Colonial Charter mod recently, it's a massive change to how Banished operates. Adds new resources and a bunch more buildings including Unlimited quarries and mines. It always felt a bit silly to me how Banished required you to leave huge swaths of damaged land just because your quarry ran out of rock, you know rock the stuff that is all over under the planet, and your mines ran out of ore relatively quickly. Luckily, with a strong firewood economy, you can trade for stone and ores with the merchants. I never setup a quarry or mine.