Software:Patron (video game)
Patron is a survival city builder video game developed by Overseer Games and published on 10 August 2021.
Gameplay
The game is a medieval city builder in the similar vein of Banished, RimWorld and The Settlers.[1] In the game, the player collects resources in order to create and expand its own medieval town with farms, production plants, residential houses and other objects. The game stresses its intricate social systems in the form of needs, perspectives of each of the town's inhabitants. It also includes a research tree to keep up with technological advancements as time passes by.[2][3]
Clicking a house in the town will show number of residents, happiness, income and other contents of the house. The user can switch production and assign a role to their residents.[4] If the player's citizens are not properly taken care of, they ill move out of the city.[5]
Development
Since its initial release, the developer issued a patch that included all of the community requested features and quality of life improvements, such as being able to manually position the town hall.[6] A free demo of the game is made available.[1]
Reception
On Metacritic, the game currently holds a score of 71, based on 6 reviews.[7]
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Smith, Graham (August 17, 2021). "Patron is a survival city-builder in the vein of Banished". https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/patron-is-a-survival-city-builder-in-the-vein-of-banished.
- ↑ "Patron is a medieval city builder with a new spin on social dynamics out next month | PCGamesN". 30 July 2021. https://www.pcgamesn.com/patron/city-builder-release-date.
- ↑ Inc, Aetas. "「Patron」が8月10日に日本語対応で正式リリースへ。サバイバル要素とソーシャル・ダイナミックスを盛り込んだ都市建設シム". https://www.4gamer.net/games/587/G058759/20210805010/.
- ↑ "I'm baking thousands of cookies and not letting anyone eat them in city builder Patron". August 16, 2021. https://www.pcgamer.com/im-baking-thousands-of-cookies-and-not-letting-anyone-eat-them-in-city-builder-patron/.
- ↑ "In city builder Patron, my biggest import is snow and my biggest export is dead peasants". August 13, 2021. https://www.pcgamer.com/in-city-builder-patron-my-biggest-import-is-snow-and-my-biggest-export-is-dead-peasants/.
- ↑ "City builder Patron gets a new patch full of community-requested features | PCGamesN". 24 November 2021. https://www.pcgamesn.com/patron/city-builder-update-10500.
- ↑ "Patron". https://www.metacritic.com/game/patron/critic-reviews/?platform=pc.
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