Patron
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they…
Patron is an indie developed by Overseer Games, released 10 August 2021 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $3.99 at Steam.
What Patron is
Patron is an indie game developed by Overseer Games and released in 2021. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Patron builds upon the foundations laid out by the staples of the survival city builder genre and enhances the experience with a large research tree and by introducing intricate social dynamics into the game and the genre in general. Happiness, the standard simple feature of all such games, in the case of Patron is a complete gameplay system in its own right. Patron starts off similarly to other games in the genre, but then veers off exploring social intricacies and what it means to truly run a society and not just a city filled with automatons. Each individual citizen in the town has his needs, desires and issues troubling him or making him happy. Some citizens are more concerned with…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical, open world, sandbox and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Patron launched on 10 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and The Forgotten City.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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