Banished has no story beyond the hint that you and your people have been exiled to the wilderness to fend for yourselves. It doesn't need a story beyond that. The natural, organic drama of the changing seasons, the births and deaths, the growing and the harvest, and the fight for survival in a wilderness that even at its mildest can leave you without food and firewood in the depths of winter, tell the story. Unlike most survival city sims, however, there isn't a feeling of desperate micromanagment. Banished is a game of thinking ahead, to the next season, the next harvest, and the next winter. It's like tending a garden of thatched-roof houses, hard-working peasants, and beautiful, ravenous wilderness.