Something is terribly wrong in the Banished hamlet of Belch
That’s my little township of Belch in Shining Rock Software’s Banished. It’s a city builder that pits the player’s colonial planning skills against the inevitable stranglehold of slow starvation. Imagine a Settlers game except mother nature wants to turn your town into another Roanoke Colony mystery. Bad weather, bad harvests, and breakable tools will kill your people faster than any native hordes. Anyway, that screenshot is from the third version of Belch. Belch Uno’s townsfolk withered during a cruel winter and starved to death. Belch Part Deux stupidly ran out of wood due to rampant deforestation and the townsfolk were unable to move forward. Belch the Third seemed to be doing just fine, but there was a problem. A major one.
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