# Banished: anyone still playing?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [February 18, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banished-anyone-still-playing/829763 "2019-02-18T13:32:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banished-anyone-still-playing/829763/1 "2019-02-18T13:32:33Z")

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The game came out a few years ago and made something of a splash in resource management game circles, but is anyone still playing it or has the world moved on to bigger and better resource games? I ask because I just started this past weekend.

I confess I’m eager for Ancient Cities.

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**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banished-anyone-still-playing/829763/2 "2019-02-18T18:04:07Z")

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I played it fairly heavily in early access, then uninstalled during a purge. I reinstalled it a few months ago intended to get back into it; started it up; and…I don’t know what happened. I just couldn’t get re-hooked.

For me, I think it has been supplanted by RimWorld; they don’t look that much alike, but it scratches the same itch.

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**Author:** ![Club\_33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Club\_33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Club_33)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banished-anyone-still-playing/829763/3 "2019-02-21T05:08:27Z")

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I still play and love it. Tip: If you like the game, but want a lot more scenery choices, go to the steam workshop and download the latest Colonial Charter Mod. It is really a wonderful mod and adds so much to the game. If you have a good handle on the base game, you’ll like the mod a lot, and it won’t break anything.