10 Incredible Video Games You Didn't Realise Were Made By One Person

9. Banished

Putting you in charge of managing your own remote community, Banished asks its players to carefully maintain resources and monitor the survival of their growing, isolated society. The inclusion of its survival focus was widely praised for adding an extra dimension to a typically standard city-builder.

With such a detailed experience offered by the game, you may be surprised to hear that the development was run by one person. Shining Rock Software is the studio set up by Luke Hodorowicz, who had to plough more than 5,500 hours or work into the development to get the game finished.

Hodorowicz has said he was massively influenced by Anno during the development of his own game, and the finished article is resounding proof that your inspirations and ideas can bear fruit if you put the work in.

Maybe book a few days off work first, though; there's only so much you can do in one evening!