Genre City BuilderReleased Feb 18, 2014

Banished

Developed and published by Shining Rock Software LLC
Estimated lifetime revenue
$4.91M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$3.44M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
498.0K
≈ 11 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 43,382 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
43,382
Very Positive90% positive
Playing now
424
9-day peak 545 · low 424
New reviews, last 9 days
+13
≈ 1 a day since Oct 8

History

Oct 8 – Oct 17

43.4K43.4K43.4K43.4K
Oct 8Oct 12Oct 17

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Strategy →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Strategy games on Steam

Outearns 30% of them — below the group's median.

Median
$15.59M
114,721 reviews
Top 10% start at
$67.69M
This game
$4.91M
9th pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

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 townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Developer
Shining Rock Software LLC
Publisher
Shining Rock Software LLC
Genre
City Builder
Released
Feb 18, 2014
Steam app ID
242920
Data updated
Oct 17, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.