2020: My Country vs Banished
2020: My Country
2020: My Country is the follow-up to the smash hit, My Country, which had more than 15 million players around the world during its peak. In this amazing free-to-play city-building game, you will need to develop and manage a futuristic metropolitan in addition to dealing with the day-to-day problems and occasional disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, in your city. Decorate your city with a variety of leafy greens that will help brighten up the grayish concrete jungle of office buildings and high rises. You can even manually customize your parks in this game!Managing a city isn't a job that just anyone could do, and being the mayor, you are given the crucial task of keeping your people happy and ensuring that their needs and wants are met. Will you be able to develop your dream city?
Banished
Banished is a medieval-themed city-building simulation that can be pretty difficult to get into at first mainly due to its many nuances and lack of a comprehensive tutorial. But once you get the general idea of how things work (we'd recommend starting with easy mode), you'll start to truly appreciate the game as the challenge that it is. In some way, this game is quite similar to SimCity in many ways with the obvious difference being the themes and the lack of piping, waste management or electricity. Different maps will pose a different challenge and of course, the bigger your village is, the more stuff you'll need to manage. Although it does have some strategy elements to it - mainly in the form of village management, the game is not a war game. There is no fighting involved but your villagers will die from natural causes or disasters like illnesses or famine.However, once you've gotten the hang of the game, Banished becomes less of a punishing game and a bit more boring due to the same-y looking buildings and the soundtrack. When it comes to replayability, we'd say that the game has maybe tens of hours in it before you'll get bored and move on to the next game... and this play duration may be drastically reduced if you happen to be a pro SimCity player.
So, in short, Banished will appear to be a somewhat frustrating game at first, but once you've gotten the hang of it, the game might gradually becomes boring mainly because there is nothing else to do except to expand, expand and expand! However, we can't say that we didn't enjoy playing the game, and even for the shorter play duration it has to offer, as opposed to triple A city-building titles, the game is worth the money it costs.