Top 15 Banished Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

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 objective of the game is to keep the population alive and grow it into a successful culture. Options for feeding the people include hunting and gathering, agriculture, trade, and fishing. However, sustainable practices must be considered to survive in the long term.

1. SpellForce (Series)

SpellForce (Series) SpellForce is a combination real-time strategy and role-playing video game. The game takes place in a broken world called Eo that was torn apart by a ritual called the Convocation. The ritual was performed by 13 powerful mages that in their greed for power caused the continents of the world......

2. CaesarIA

CaesarIA CaesarIA is an open source remake of Caesar III game released by Impressions Games in 1998, it aims to expand the possibilities of the classical city-building simulators and to add new features showing the city life. Now the game work with Windows, Linux, Mac, Haiku and Android.The original Caesar3 game......

3. Stronghold (series)

Stronghold (series) Stronghold Crusader is a RTS game from the series from Stronghold. In Stronghold Crusader the player can play as either the legendary Richard the Lionheart or the formidable Saladin. A mix of real-time strategy and city-building games, the game's desert setting requires strategies adapted to the environment and its lack......

4. ANNO (series)

ANNO (series) ANNO is a city-building and economic simulation video game series, with real-time strategy elements.The series includes:- (1998) Anno 1602 - Creation of a New World (in the US and Australia released as 1602 A.D.), a real time strategy game- (2003) Anno 1503 (known in the US as 1503 A.D.: The......

5. Europa 1400: The Guild (Series)

Europa 1400: The Guild (Series) Europa 1400: The Guild (also titled Europa 1400 or The Guild) is a simulation game set in Europe from the year 1400 up to 1815. In it, the player tries to guide a family dynasty to power and wealth, starting from one character of limited means. Players can choose from......

6. Stonehearth

Stonehearth Stonehearth is a game about exploration and survival in an epic fantasy setting. Your job is to help a small group of settlers survive and carve out a place for themselves in a hostile land. You’ll need to establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, and find a......

7. Warcraft III

Warcraft III Set a generation before the events of the original Warcraft began, Warcraft II is a real-time strategy game by Blizzard Entertainment. Cunning, sinister, and seemingly unstoppable, the demonic Burning Legion prepare to launch their long-awaited assault on the mortal world. Survival is a matter of strategy, as the Reign of......

8. Ur-Land

Ur-Land Raise your villages and transform them into cities. Upgrade your heroes, form gigantic troops and research new technologies. Dangerous missions are waiting for you! Trade with other players, establish alliances and defeat your enemies in a new world with its own laws.Be one of the first in this new and......

9. Age of Castles (Series)

Age of Castles (Series) In a distant realm of sword and sorcery, a great evil had swept across the land. Demons from the underworld and their evil minions poured across the kingdoms of man, until the great cities lay in ruin, and there were naught but a handful of cowering souls remaining. Choose your......

10. The Kindred

The Kindred The Kindred - a creative sandbox game set in a vibrant voxel world. Start with the bare essentials and lead the Kin’s upstart civilization to peace and prosperity. Explore new lands, discover resources, grow plants and raise animals to grow your village. Survive through the harsh winters, devastating diseases, sweltering......

11. Travian

Travian Master the art of ancient tactics as Roman, Gaul or Teuton!TRAVIAN is a multiplayer strategy browser game. As a player in TRAVIAN, you will build your own empire, recruit a mighty army, and fight with your allies for game world domination.......

12. Neighbours from Hell (Series)

Neighbours from Hell (Series) Neighbours from Hell is a strategy video game for Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox. In Europe, it was released for Windows on June 20, 2003, and the GameCube and Xbox on March 4, 2005. The game was released for Windows in the United States on September 22, 2003.Game Series......

13. Lord of Ultima

Lord of Ultima Lord of Ultima is a Strategy MMO browser game set in the legendary Ultima universe. To become the mighty Lord of Ultima, you must master the art of diplomacy and trade as well as the military activities of spying, plundering and sieging enemy cities.You don't have to be an expert......

14. Deep Sea Tycoon (Series)

Deep Sea Tycoon (Series) The gameplay of Deep Sea Tycoon involves choosing one of 24 different characters and creating an underwater city filled with different buildings and features, from Mermaid Palaces to Seafood Restaurants. Through the character they choose and the choices they make in their city, the player can become a ruthless oil-tycoon,......

15. Endless Legend

Endless Legend Endless Legend is a turn based 4X fantasy-strategy game developed by Amplitude Studios and published by Iceberg Interactive for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X in September 2014. The purpose of the game is to dominate the world "Auriga" with one of the eight races through either diplomacy or war......