Building comparison
head to head
BanishedvsSid Meier's Civilization III
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Banished
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Harsh village-builder; balance population, food, and winter.
Sid Meier's Civilization III
Optimization · Pure Optimization
The 2001 Civilization entry that introduced culture, strategic resources and refined empire micromanagement.
Banished leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Sid Meier's Civilization III leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
BanishedSid Meier's Civilization III
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
Banished leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Banished
no mechanical layer
Sid Meier's Civilization III
No dexterity in a turn-based interface
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Banished
no opponent
Sid Meier's Civilization III
AI personalities are fixed and mappable
Variance3 vs 4
Sid Meier's Civilization III leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Banished
weather, disease events
Sid Meier's Civilization III
Random maps, resources and combat rolls matter early
Optimization9 vs 9
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Banished
population ratios and food planning
Sid Meier's Civilization III
Corruption math, worker turns and culture borders reward deep optimization
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.