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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 reach boiling point.

Patron is a city builder, colony sim and strategy game developed and published by Overseer Games.
Released on August 10th 2021 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, German, Russian, French, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Turkish, Italian, Hungarian and Korean.

It has received 2,995 reviews of which 2,190 were positive and 805 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Patron into these genres:

City Builder Colony Sim Strategy Survival Medieval Singleplayer Resource Management Economy Building Management Open World Base-Building 3D Moddable Historical Simulation Sandbox RTS

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card

User reviews & Ratings

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Sept. 2025

2.7 hour review: If you've played Banished, this is very difficult to see how it is different. I enjoy this game in precisely the same way I enjoy Banished, and I can also barely tell the difference, other than obvious graphical differences, and the UI. This is nothing to sneeze at - I think the developer should be proud of themselves for this accomplishment. But if you as a player are looking for something different than Banished, this might be it, or it might not be - you might have to play a very long time to appreciate the differences. The good news is that if you enjoy Banished, you'll probably also enjoy Patron. UPDATE: Something I enjoy to ponder while I play this: You know that if you, as a little peon in the great big world, are not completely happy, as sometimes I find myself feeling too, then you can see as you play this game, that if you couldn't keep the job you liked, there was probably some jerk up in the sky saying "oh no we don't want fishermen! We want more miners instead!" (and if you weren't aware, working in a mine is about as bad as it can get). Or maybe even it was your parents saying "we want more kids even though life is so freaking hard we almost froze ourselves to death last winter!" Or.... well it all comes down to that jerk in the sky doesn't it? I mean what was the point of playing the game in the first place? Something so urgent you just couldn't help yourself huh? Well... anyways... these are the sorts of things that come up while watching those little ant-people run around.

June 2025

It's a slightly less expensive, more story-heavy Settlement Survival, or Banished. A great addition to your collection of colony sims that you never finish.

April 2025

Husband and I are having fun playing it side by side at our computers at the same time. We both did custom settings for our play styles. The gameplay is comparable to other similar to it. Nothing wow, but fun trying to manage. It will keep us busy for the weekend. I do not believe the game is being worked on anymore since they have a new game currently in EA, but we did not run into any bugs or issues. If you like these types of games it is worth picking up on sale. That is what we did. Good times.

March 2025

If you are going to leave this page because of "mostly positive", you should know there is only one reason for this "mostly": the sucicidal tutorial. If you follow it, your people will starve or freeze to death. Probably they made a tutorial and then rebalanced the game to harder survivalism. With the current balance, instead of gatherers and forresters (recommended in the tutorial) you should quickly invent fishing, and then build and upgrade the fishing hut. And instead of tents (advised in the tutorial) you should build houses. This will stabilize your colony and give you more freedom in the further development of your village. Otherwise, it is a very good successor to Banished, fixing its weakest trait: aimlessness. When you stabilize the colony in Banished, further deveolpment becomes aimless and thus boring. In this game, the cure for aimlessness is borrowed from Against the storm: you are not only the lord of your village, but at the same time a vassal of your king/queen. The vice-roy it was called in Against the storm, and the patron is how they call it here. Expectedly, the king frequently annoys you with requests, creating heavy burden for your poor peasants and quite an animative challenge for you. For now, the downside of the game (besides the inexplicably sucidal tutorial) is an ufortunate balance, which leaves you with few alternatives on how to develop. For the early game, the only feeding option is fishing: for gatherers and hunters you will rarely find a spot on the map where they would be at least 70% efficient, and even if you will, this lucky spot will be so far in the forrest that the long road will make it logistically inefficient. In the mid game, again, despite seemingly diverse feeding options (from crop and animal farms to orchards), the only feasible one is the crop farm. Unfortunately, there is little hope that the developers will rebalance this in the future: they seem to have given up a few steps to "overwhelmigly positive".

Nov. 2024

It's like a finished version of Banished, with all the features that game should have had.

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Patron is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Patron is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Patron received 2,190 positive votes out of a total of 2,995 achieving a rating of 7.10.

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Patron was developed and published by Overseer Games.

Patron is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Patron is not playable on MacOS.

Patron is not playable on Linux.

Patron is a single-player game.

There are 3 DLCs available for Patron. Explore additional content available for Patron on Steam.

Patron is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Patron does not support Steam Remote Play.

Patron is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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