Patron news & patch notes

Greetings Patrons!

We've been a little bit silent for a while, but it's time to bring back some love to Patron! Judging by activity from players, especially ones that play longer hours, we've noticed that you like to "reward" your medieval city with good looks. And that is perfectly ok - if you succeeded in making your settlement into prosperous, well organized city, it's only fair that it looks like one too! In any case, in this update we're adding a few more options to decoration system: * 3 entirely new decoration models * 2 of these models are modular - you can connect them and combine in multitude of ways * 1 is a standalone - simple, easy to place and with a dash of style {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/ea62b6d543a860b46ee2f341556f1fdebaa906ba.jpg Hopefully, these additions will expand your creativity and increase flexibility in creating portions of your city into something you're really proud of! Feel free to share your interesting creations to everyone is screenshots gallery. Make everyone envy you! As always, have fun and let us know what you think! Overseer Games

Greetings Patrons!

Winter is here, Holiday season is just around the corner... Hopefully you'll all have some days off in coming weeks, so why not spending some of this time playing a good game challenging your wit? During WInter sale, Patron will be available with stunning 80% off! You can easily hop into this medieval challenge and save most of your bucks for other Holiday presents at the same time. Anyways, we'd like to invite you to use this opportunity, grab the game during this sale if you haven't yet, or let your medieval city builder friend enthusiast ːsteamhappyː . In the end, whatever you'll get on this sale, we wish you happy gaming time and a very happy Holiday season!

Overseer Games

Hello,

This week, from Friday Nov 29th until Dec 3rd, a public Playtest, second one, will be held for Kaiserpunk. This game features a full production chain city builder mechanics combined with many grand strategy elements, all set in an alternative history of the first half of the 20th century. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/4a0d1b4a42c694dd85efbc99a73037f15bbb2c0c.jpg Rebuild your own city and territory, set up production and logistics, then take your success to the global stage and spread order to over 100 world regions. Tools of getting there can be pure military conquest, diplomacy or economic domination, whichever suits you best. This is the second Playtest for Kaiserpunk and playable version will be much more completed than the demo several months back. There is still much work to be done but this version should clearly showcase what the game is all about. You can apply for the Playtest through simple Request Access button on the Kaiserpunk store page and access will be granted when Playtest officially starts on November 29th. Take a look, give it a spin and give us any feedback you'd like to share with devs. You can do so on Steam, Discord ( https://discord.gg/6FfVfPfDNz ) or email [email protected] . {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/eafff751bbae5a1085cab07f7378352179bd397d.jpg Any and all constructive feedback to help complete this complex game is truly appreciated. Besides adding a lot of recently completed features, feedback from first Playtest also impacted many changes and improvements to previous features. Feedback from this Playtest will help improve the game further. Just a few significant additions you can expect in this round of Playtest:

• Flag design – You're leading a new nation, you should have a flag…your own designed flag
• Selection of heritages – German, Western allies, Russian… choose your starting heritage
• Social pillars – set your political alignment
• Tutorial 2.0 - sections completely reworked based on player input from earlier Playtest
• Maps – over 20 maps available through 4 different geographical biomes
• More stories – multiple new stories with players choices and mutual causality
• Diplomacy system – If that's your strong side, war isn't the only option anymore
• Basic trade system – can't find and produce all the riches on your own? Trade for them!
• Tier 3 production chains and buildings – build more, build bigger
• Reworked world map HUD – previous feedback from players gave us many ideas for improvements, so voila
• UI/UX 2.0 – what can we say? It's much better
• Army specializations
• Army units and buildings up to Tier 3 (out of 4 in total)
• Decorations system (2 out of 3 tiers finished) – much bigger city you can now build needs to be shown off, right?
• Combat improvements – more options and feedback before and during combat phases

We'd like to invite you all to participate in this play session. Game isn't yet completed, but it's getting there fast, and with your help it'll be even faster. Black Friday is coming up, so why not use this opportunity for some free gaming enjoyment? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/9fb5f65919529a50d4722849aa41871b634592ae.jpg

See you there!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2012190/KAISERPUNK/

Greetings Governors!

While we're busy working on Kaiserpunk, Overseer Games' next game, we'd like to draw some of your attention to Zeljko Kos from Siscia Games. Some of you may be interested in what he's doing. So without drawing this out for too long, here's what he wants to share with You. If you’ve enjoyed managing your town and watching your people thrive in Patron, I have an exciting new adventure for you! Step into the world of ancient Rome with Pompeii: The Legacy, an epic city-building game where you’ll take on the challenge of rebuilding Pompeii after the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius. But this isn’t just about construction—it’s about survival, growth, and leaving your mark on history.

Behind Pompeii: The Legacy

I’m Zeljko Kos, the solo developer working on Pompeii: The Legacy. You may recognize my work from Patron, a city-building game that many of you have enjoyed. This time, I’m taking on an even greater challenge by developing Pompeii: The Legacy entirely on my own, using a custom engine that I’ve built from scratch. Working solo allows me complete creative freedom, and I’m thrilled to be crafting every aspect of the game to offer a deeply immersive and historically rich experience for players. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/f31ca9b13123b4185a61f45720f6d1734f216908.jpg

Why Pompeii: The Legacy?

• Historical Setting: Immerse yourself in the rich world of ancient Rome, rebuilding one of its most iconic cities.
• Expanded Gameplay: Manage resources, construct iconic Roman structures, and guide your people through an ever-changing landscape of challenges.
• Strategic Depth: From city planning to politics and diplomacy, you’ll face tough decisions to restore Pompeii’s former glory.
• Narrative-Driven Experience: Enjoy a compelling story woven through historical events that shape the world around you.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/e2b6f45d4919941decaeaee921fad5bfa27e121c.jpg Much like Patron, Pompeii: The Legacy offers deep management systems and a balance between strategic thinking and city growth, with added elements that reflect the unique challenges of the Roman Empire. With historical authenticity and engaging mechanics, this game will take your city-building experience to the next level! By wishlisting Pompeii: The Legacy, you’ll stay up-to-date with the latest developments, upcoming updates, and announcements as we prepare to bring this grand project to life. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2632240/Pompeii_The_Legacy/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And don't forget to check out Kaiserpunk coming in early 2025 by Yours truly, Overseer Games ;) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2012190/KAISERPUNK/

Hello Patrons!

Today, for the first time ever, Steam is hosting „Games from Croatia“ event! Our country may be a small one, but some awesome games originated from here in recent years. For some of them you might already heard, but we're positive many of them are, as of yet, unknown to many of you or at least you might not be aware they are from Croatia. Whatever the case, this croatian games event features a lot of games, covering multiple genres and styles. There is something for everyone, and majority of games are available with fantastically appealing high discounts. We invite you to browse around, get familiar with the work all studios have done, and perhaps you find something you want to try out! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/0dc99234e63c0e19ad007a5e57bc161b71b04c24.png There is also a special section of upcoming games featuring yet unreleased but promising titles that you can wishlist and follow! Our games are also available with hefty discounts, so we invite you to take up the opportunity and secure a lot of fresh gaming experience with little cost! From upcoming croatian games, we'd certainly recommend you check out „Kaiserpunk“ – a unique city builder & grand strategy hybrid in development by team very close to us! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2012190/Kaiserpunk/

Have fun and happy sale hunting!

Greetings Patrons!

An amazing opportunity to get into Patron, medieval city builder, will last for only several days! If you were ever interested in diving into our medieval experience and test your governing skills, this is a fantastic opportunity to do so. I mean, 80% ! Organize your village, turn it into blooming medieval city and grow your society into the envy of the world! Patron received many updates since release, latest one just yesterday, and expect more improvements in the future. If this limited offer pulls your trigger to jump into the world of Patron, we welcome you and wish you great success. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/c57c52570afb7f7db13930a2f117050d4c31a503.png ...and don't forget there is a creative mode available too, just in case you're not looking for serious challenge but merely hours of carefree building and decorating your medieval fairy tale ːsteamhappyː

Have fun and govern on!

Hello Patrons,

This long summer is relentless (at least where we are), but here is something to make your gaming days a bit more interesting! In this summer update for Patron, we've finally „broke the code“ and introduced research stacking, a feature frequently requested by you. For some reason, it kept giving us troubles but it's sorted now and you can finally set multiple reseraches to be researched in given order. If you already know the technology path you wish to take, this should make your life easier. Another frequently asked detail is addition of open mini map right at the start of the game when you're selecting a spot for your Town center. Now you can have a neat overview of surrounding area to choose from where you want to start building your city, relative to resources, shores and any other geographical feature you deem important. Content wise, there is an expansion of various sculptures and statues in decoration section. This should be useful once you reach a level of wealth that simply needs to be shown to everyone. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/cd642fb3d96c91453c8eb739f1d1a363dd066145.png Part of this update is also few more optimization thingies, mainly model optimizations and shader tweaks. A batch of bug fixes and language patches of various scope is ofcourse mandatory with every update, so we didn't skip it this time either. Hope your Patron experience will get another enhancement with this update! CHANGELOG:

• ADDED: Additional 5 decoration busts
• ADDED: Additional 5 decoration statues
• ADDED: Research stacking – you can now initiate a stack of technologies to be researched in sequential order
• ADDED: Mini map will now be shown when you're placing a Town center at the game start
• UPDATED: Additional optimization of several shaders
• UPDATED: Additional optimization of several 3D models
• FIXED: Text correction on First King mission
• FIXED: Fixed italian language
• FIXED: Numerous smaller bugs

Have a pleasant July, and until next time! Overseer Games

Hello Patrons!

Hope these summer temperatures aren't bothering you too much! We recommend cold water, air contition and a good game to kill the time. We've been working on next Patron update, and according to current plans it should be ready and out by mid next week. What can you expect from this one? Well, we'll add some new content stuff (buildable beautification objects), additions to character visuals, optimizaton on few shaders and more 3D models, some quality of life additions that you've requested, bugfixes and more... We'll provide the full changelog alongside update itself, and hopefully you can expect all o it by Tuesday next week. Governn on and stay cool!

Greetings Patrons!

As we're preparing next Patron update, we'd like to invite you to check out our next endeavour. Kaiserpunk has been in the works for a while now, and during this June's Next Fest, you can try it out in the form of a free demo. It is a bit different game to Patron, but large portion of it still falls under city building genre, so should be familiar to majority of you. Main difference is that general setting revolves around alternative history of first half of 20th century, and gameplay wise it includes an entire grand strategy layer. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/fc3cb2d6377e17b6409135aa340faa1f3fb43067.jpg Once you build, organize and set up your city, you can also use that wealth and logistics to set ip armies and start "spreading" your success on the worldwide map. Global logistics, conquest/defense and resource management on the world stage coupled with city builder management of your home region/city should wake up and challenge your governing skills to the max. Additionally, Kaiserpunk features stories and causality system where dozens of little stories appear throughout the game. Some of them, depending on choices players make to resolve them, can eventually turn into long branching quests with various long term consequences... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/9357555ff4b48aa1cb349e3c5e45b7d9e601d563.jpg Kaiserpunk is currently still in heavy development, but we wanted to reach demo version sooner in order to give everyone a chance to try it and let us know how they feel about this unique concept of merging two genres. In our view, grand strategy can greatly complement in the world arena all success players achieve in the city building part of the game. But your judgement will be the final one... In any case, free demo of Kaiserpunk will be available throughout the duration of Next Fest starting today, and we'll be excited if you grab it, play the heck out of it and let us know what you think! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/90bbda2f543cf593215c408f63e0e4da226900fe.jpg If you enjoy Kaiserpunk demo and appreciate what kind of experience we're aiming to achieve here, WISHLIST and FOLLOW the game to stay in the loop with development and release plans! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2012190/Kaiserpunk/ Comments and feedback are always welcome on either Steam forums or our DIscord channel: https://discord.gg/6FfVfPfDNz

Welcome and have fun!

Greetings Patrons!

Just turning your attention to currently active Steam Farming Fest! The event is running from April 29th to May 6th, and you have a chance to browse among best selection of games that offer deep and meaningful farming elements. And there are so many games that did this right! From our discussions with players, we're certain many of our players enjoy strong farming elements in a game, so hope you'll use this opportunity to expand your libraries with a game or two. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/805104a3809b290e2c477718a9bea0cf79a98039.jpg We are very pleased to have a chance to participate in this event with our Patron, and during the event you can grab the game with massive 80% discount!!! Note that game has just recently been updated as well with numerous details that players asked for themselves. For anyone that hasn't yet played Patron yet, in our case, farming is pretty detailed and works as one of the essential elements of game. Being a city builder, Patron utilizes multiple farming elements both as source of important individual food items, as well as ingredients for broader production chains. Additionally, farming in Patron includes farming fields, orchards, animal farms etc... To achieve a successful and sustainable production you'll need farms themselves, but also sufficient numbers of happy workers and logistics to transform raw harvest into finished products. Remember that food is essential for your colony to keep growing. Everything depends on it! And never forget that your citizens won't be too happy or healthy eating always the same things. But with all of the tools available to you - various farm fields, upgrading of farming technology via research tree, selection and rotation of different crops... we're certain you'll be able to secure all of your citizen's needs and then some. Have fun and enjoy!

Greetings Patrons! In line with announcement from a few days ago, we're releasing next Patron update today! Work was done in several areas from continuous optimizations, bugfixes and additions of a few quality of life and useability perspectives. To dive deeper and find more room for performance gains, we've performed a very lenghty testing sessions to monitor the hardware stress and deduce when and why stress is increased. In this instance, particular emphasis was put to find a way to bring optimizations that could impact lower-end GPU's. Acording to results we've been getting, performance (especially in lower end hardware) should be more consistent now, shouldn't have significant drops with hundreds of citizens and hundreds of buildings, and occassional issue where frame dropped during ingame winter time should be resolved now. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/de4bf7373c000cb7dcdc8a0611f92158c214692c.jpg At the same time, while diving deep, we've also identified some areas that could increase performace even more, but more extensive changes will need to be made. That's something we'll include in more future updates. We've also fixed several bugs you've reported with stock panel, numerous notification errors and visual glitches. Lastly, selection for several frequent keyboard layouts has been completed too. List of notable update elements: CHANGES

• FIXED: Stock panel – when resources are sorted by quantity, selected resource won't randomly change when numerical value changes
• FIXED: Shadows for numerous objects are now rendered properly at intended level of distance. They will not disappear prematurely
• FIXED: Fake notifications, especially for lacking housing, won't appear anymore
• ADDED: Choice between QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboard layouts
• OPTIMIZED: Very extensive optimization of all free Halloween DLC 3D models
• OPTIMIZED: 3D models of all buildings and trees in Mare Nostrum DLC improved
• OPTIMIZED: Several tree models in Patron base game
• OPTIMIZED: Transport wagons 3D models for all farms highly optimized
• OPTIMIZED: Text renderings in many panels improved and made less hardware demanding
• OPTIMIZED: During winter times, frame drop should be eliminated

May your experience be smoother then ever. We have more in store for future updates, so keep us informed of your experiences! Enjoy and govern on! Overseer Games

Hello Patrons! It's been a while since last update to Patron, but we've started proper testing on next round of improvements. If all goes well, update should be live by the end of this week. We did get a chance to gather a lot of feedback since last update and information from save files many of you provided. Btw – thank you for that! Bulk of the work will focus on next optimization package. Many players now reached much farther into the game, and with thousands of citizens and hundreds of buildings, every additional frame counts. Next, we'll introduce a balancing pass on the campaign portion of game. There is room for improvement here and numbers we got from your save files will be the guideline for these changes. Also, several items from „quality of life“ list will enter this update as well, mostly suggested by players as well, but perhaps some surprises too… Looking at a calendar, it's not yet time for summer, but given the climate stuff happening around and temperatures we're experiencing here, we'll call it an early summer update! One last thing - some of you may already noticed, but thanks to awesome devs of another great city building game, we've also entered into a bundle with Pioneers of Pagonia. This way you can get access to both Patron and Pioneers of Pagonia with bundle discount! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/40716/Pioneers_of_Pagonia__Patron/ See you in a few days. Govern on!

Greetings Patrons!

According to numerous reactions from many of you, and what troubles can arise in longer gameplay sessions, we’ve decided to pack together numerous modifications to game features impacting two of the most prominent problems some players are encountering – the lack or slow growth of the population, or the opposite situation with these numbers snowballing after a while. General idea was to boost the possible population growth in earlier stages of the game, and slow it down after certain number of ingame years. At the same time, tweaks have been also made to system managing the speed with which resources are distributed around your city. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/41c34af906bf3e34afb54d6af20f87632c59afa8.jpg Changing any of these numbers in a full game featuring so many interlinked numbers and calculations was rather tricky, but from all the testing we've done, it should work properly and as intended. If you notice any weird consequences, please do let us know so we can adjust it more if needed. Let’s go over the list of changes for this update: CHANGELOG

• MODIFIED: Movement speed of dedicated carriers (in jobs board) is increased by 10%
• MODIFIED: After 20 and 40 ingame years, carrier speed is increased by further 4%
• MODIFIED: When production building requires a critical resource, carrier will go pick it up even if drop off distance is further away
• MODIFIED: If some resource is very abundant in warehouse, carriers will pick up larger quantity for delivery then usual
• MODIFIED: Road signs increase road travel speed by additional 2% after 20 ingame years
• MODIFIED: After 20 ingame years, and once city gets much bigger, number of required dedicated carriers is slightly increased
• MODIFIED: in first several years of your colony, 2-4 additional colonists will arrive to your city per year
• MODIFIED: if your colony exceeds 1000 citizens, natural birthrate will slow down after ingame year 40, then 60, then 80 again, further reducing snowball effect

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/208c25b029b84455693429d5f5ba470eae03d869.jpg With all these changes, it should be easier to start your colony and manage its growth in first critical years. After that, once you get to later stages of the game, sudden overpopulation and strain on already established production chains should be easier to control. Hope it will further improve your experience and help you build sustaining and long lasting medieval colony! Govern on!

Hello Patrons!

Fall is fast approaching, and to alleviate the boredom of long rainy days, we've been preparing to add another update to Patron. This time it's mainly focused on new content elements. Let's get straight into the details of it: First of all, biggest addition in this update is opening up a long questline that will start relatively early in the game and ask players to fulfill tasks asked by the King. Basically, the mainland Kingdom gets involved in a costly and long war alongside its borders. To successfully turn the tide of the conflict, they will need all the help they can get, and your thriving colony will get a chance to step up and offer assistance, in terms of steady stream of supplies or trained troops. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/b4623d38766db635fe366fc6172075f50bfc367a.jpg Everything you've been building in your colony in the new land will now get a chance to become an important asset in helping your mainland bretheren fending off the hostile invasion. If your city/colony is strong enough to offer that assistance, you'll prove once and for all that you were the right choice to lead the settlement and King's faith in you was justified all along. In economical terms, all you'll be required to keep sending assistance when asked for is to secure sufficient production and ensure specific surpluses for resources your mainland is missing at a specific points of the conflict. On the other side, if you're asked for fresh troops directly, you'll have to build a barracks and train required amount of troops. Besides story questline, another element of this update is another batch of optimizations, this time affecting your citizens, how their simulations are calculated and presented. In our internal tests new system yielded some noticeable gains in performance, depending on specific hardware and overall citizen numbers in your city. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/38bd73ed6710324ce821dc81937522f671ddcced.jpg Lastly, today's update brings several bugfixes that correct some annoying bugs our players have been reporting in recent weeks. CHANGES

• ADDED: Campaign questline and linked worldmap
• ADDED: New available building - Barracks
• OPTIMIZATION: reworked system governing citizen background simulations
• FIXED: Possible CTD during reloading on specific maps eliminated
• FIXED: Trade panel won't suddenly open and close when you click on Dock icon (if Dock icon is below Cancel icon on panel)
• FIXED: Numerous corrections to texts in different languages

Hope you'll enjoy the new content! Until the next update, you're welcome to leave your comments, reactions, any feedback or suggestions - on either Steam forums or our Discord channel. We're there regulary and ready to help out! Keep governing!

Hello Patrons!

In much of the world time of vacations and time off is slowly coming to a close, se we wanted to reach out and announce that work on Patron hasn't stopped during this time. We've been working on some more extensive additions so it is taking a bit more time, but next major update should be ready within next month! Besides additional bux fixes, more optimization interventions and feature tweaks, another aspect of the game that we've been working to expand is the story and quest dimension. So, with next update you can also expect the introduction of longer questline with broader map where events take place, some additional background linking your colony to original homeland and your King etc... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/d8fbe49381ccf2841c425697a385aa598ec7b0a4.jpg Majority of game elements from this upcoming update are already undergoing internal testing, so if all goes well, in a month or so this update will land on Steam. Meanwhile, enjoy the rest of the summer, continue building your medieval colonies and have fun!

Hello Patrons!

In recent days following our extensive update and significant increase in active player numbers, we've also received a number of suggestions and possible bug reports. Today's update responds to these requests, at least to ones we've already confirmed and can react to quickly. Thanks to everyone communicating with us on forums and sending us valuable data for pinpointing the areas of improvements! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/bf8048ea2d3505574862fa2795197a810b5dfe32.jpg These are the elements for today's update, and we're throwing ourselves at work for the next one: CHANGES

• FIXED: All chopped and prepared wood will now be properly picked up and taken to warehouses in a timely manner
• UPDATED: When upgrading a trading dock, autotrade list will be properly refreshed
• FIXED: Harbour trade list glitch where manual value input is being duplicated to scrolled resources is now removed
• FIXED: Distillery production building now updates correct upkeep resources when switching production output
• FIXED: Few ingame panels that were previously displayed visually incorrectly
• FIXED: Several text typos in new game starting panels
• OPTIMIZED: Another batch of foliage models heavily optimized for faster rendering

Hope it makes your playtime even more enjoyable! Until next update, Overseer Games

Hi honorable Patrons!

In a few days we'll celebrate the two year anniversary of Patron release. A lot has been changed, expanded and improved during this time and we're happy majority of players appreciate this continuous effort to make the experience ever more enjoyable. Heck, a lot of ideas came directly from you so big thanks for supplying us with such a nice amount of inspiration! So, for the occassion, we've naturally prepared some nice surprises: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/2b17683a6d5f90deac2917f9a399d880c855c0bd.jpg Central element of today's update is the addition of „Creative“ game mode. This has been requested numerous times by so many of you, so it's here now. When you start the New game you'll be prompted to choose between two game modes – Sandbox and Creative. First is basically the original game mode that existed from before: All game rules apply, players faces challenges with securing resources, balancing societal issues, tackling problems and disasters, forces the way ahead through resources and everything else connected to selected game difficulty. Creative mode is a special game mode that OPENS EVERYTHING to players. Entire research tree is available from the start, ALL RESOURCES ARE INFINITE, Citizens will always spaws in sufficient numbers, access to all buildings is open and so on… you get the picture. This mode is for anyone wishing to simply spend some time playing the role of ultimate medieval urbanist. If you were a mayor of a medieval city, with limitless resources and logistics – what kind of marvelous city would you create? Only sky is the limit… {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/ebedf0924363999d3b147d16ca3779978a7af3f8.jpg We hope you'll enjoy this new dimension of Patron, and that you'll go wild building impressive urban fantasies. We'll be happy to take a look at what you come up with. Feel free to share it via Steam community screenshots of on our Discord. Another important thing in this update is the introduction of „automatic jobs board“. This means you can now check this option on ingame jobs board and all jobs will be automatically populated depending on available citizen numbers, stage of building upgrades and current city requirements. More detailed list of v1.610.0 content: CHANGES

• ADDED: Second game mode: Creative mode with unlimited resources and people, as well as all researches and buildings unlocked
• ADDED: Jobs board now has „automatic“ option
• ADDED: Several new flags for players to choose from
• UPDATED: Another batch of 3D models optimized for faster performance
• UPDATED: Trees in orchards now use different drawing system aimed at increased game performance
• UPDATED: Visual improvements on water wells
• FIXED: Hitting ESC button in main menu doesn't initiate save loading anymore
• FIXED: Error disabling more then one on screen notification is removed. All notifications are now clearly visible
• FIXED: Numerous corrections to text in several languages

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/491fb7ac685b4f80b78ff1ee9a3d8e96641b210e.png Hope you'll like the contents of this update! Thank you for following us in this two year journey, and see you on next update! Enjoy and have fun! Overseer Games

Hello Patrons Last fixes before the big update: CHANGELOG Continue button fix Only one notification fix Model Optimizations – more improvements

Greetings Patrons,

As announced yesterday, our testing of second optimization package is now concluded and ready for all of you! In general, this update includes further interventions to improve game performance. Technical details are similar to last update, but this time optimizations include much more models, and they go deeper in multiple layers. Today's update also includes improvements to foliage, trees, farm plants, as well as upgrades to level of details on various zoom levels. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/a9083944aa6dfc4385cbd8879af9ebac706bd37b.jpg After both optimization packages are installed, there should be a significant reduction of loading times, better performance when numerous buildings are constructed and more precise handling on citizens once they reach higher numbers. Note that bottlenecks we've been resolving with these two updates weren't equally visible on all machines. It mainly depends on specific hardware you use, so that means that gains will also vary. During our testing we've noticed bigger improvements on relatively slower machines. Loads on your CPU and GPU should also decrease further. Hopefully this will make your entire experience smoother and easier to control. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/a97d733997c6d29918f7dbc14180c1331dbc8334.png Regardless of fact that last two updates were strictly aimed at heavy optimizations, we've also corrected a few minor bugs and glitches, one of which was actually pretty noticeable but also somewhat funny - snowman in front of your Town Hall won't be appearing in the middle of summer anymore :) Final heads up on this occassion is that our work will proceed from this point, but we'll be again more concentrated at the game itself. We're aiming for second part of July for another megaupdate and few more surprises... Until then, Govern on!

Hello Patrons!

After several weeks of work, we're now starting to release packages aimed at boosting game performance. There will be two update packages, first one today, and second one in a couple of days. Every file you've provided us and every log sent to us by every player helped us locating places where bottlenecks appeared. In that respect - we wish to extend gratitude to all of you for assisting us in this work. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/757313638947a53248e5fdef934dd7b9e2062a2c.jpg There were interventions in several game elements: large optimizations of graphics drawings, changes to model loading procedures and massive improvements in model level of details. Full impact of these changes will be visible once part two of this update is applied, and that should be in a day or two. But sizeable improvements should be noticeable right away, depending on your specific GPU and CPU. As before, once you download and apply both updates, if you wish to report anything else, please do provide us with new game logs and save files. We will continue to pursue further improvements and data from fully updated game versions will be of great use! See you very soon with another update! Govern on!

Greetings Patrons!

Update being released today is a direct response to several leads provided by players. These leads indicates difficulties with people shifting homes or leaving the town, then needed improvements to some management panels, calculation and displaying of certain productions, more optimization etc… {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/757313638947a53248e5fdef934dd7b9e2062a2c.jpg When situation arises that your citizens have reasons to start leaving the town, they won't leave abruptly and in high numbers, so managing their needs should be easier. Previoulsy set up trade deals in harbors will now display a simple summary (on mouse hover), so it will be easier to keep track or your trade routes, especially if you have multiple harbors. FPS limiter has been added to options for those that requested it. One more detail for all players that like planning and flawless execution in city organization - if you misplace the building, or change your mind where you want it - all invested resources will now be reimbursed in full if you remove the building before it is fully finished. Based on your logs and other information provided by players, several more areas of gameplay have been identified that need to be modified. Some of these things are a little bit more extensive, and didn’t make it to this update, but are in the works already. To give you access to some improvements as soon as possible, we’ll be dividing the update in two parts. First part is today, and the second one will be in a few weeks. Highlights of version 1.400.0. : CHANGELOG

• ADDED: Harbor summary: when you hover mouse over any harbor, you’ll see a summary data for current automated trade setups
• ADDED: FPS limiter option
• ADDED: If yet unfinished building is destroyed, 100% of invested resources is returned
• TWEAKED: Balance for people leaving town modified. They won’t leave too fast and too abruptly anymore
• FIXED: When farm is selected, ESC key now works properly, in the following order: shutting down crop selection first, then icon for building additions, then game and initiating game menu
• MODIFIED: When citizens start demanding better housing (upgraded houses), correct notification will be displayed (not the incorrect homeless warning)
• MODIFIED: More precise display of production for some buildings. Buildings that require less then 50 resource units yearly for production, now show correct values

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/f5c01366ba8ceb40f998d198e1392afedccbf94f.jpg We wish the administration of your medieval city will be a little bit easier now, and until next update! Thanks for every and each piece of feedback, and for every data file you provide us. It all helps nailing down next steps with these updates! Govern on!

Thanks to generous help from a group of Korean players, we're now also introducing Korean language to Patron! Huge thanks from all our team members for this invaluable assistance! We're certain many Korean players will appreciate this effort.

Greetings Patrons!

Today we have another update with some very nice content elements. Biggest single change can be traced to one suggestion that was continually being mentioned by many players for quite some time – introduction of horses and carts. We absolutely agree that this definitely fits excellently into the game setting, plus will be beneficial from the gameplay perspective as well. So, here we are – finally ready with first “produced” horses for your benefit. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/c57c52570afb7f7db13930a2f117050d4c31a503.png Access to horses and carts is very simple – as soon as you build your first farms or other food producing parcels, carts will appear in your depots and your people will start using them as help when gathering and transporting harvest. No more carrying everything on foot! Since last update we’ve also been working on several reported issues and improvements – regarding orchards, collected products, visual glitches and optimizations regarding models and shadow drawing. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/64c8535875d3e47dee20930f2465e12391402f81.png Lastly – there is another major change – with this update, Patron has been transferred to Visual studio 2022. This is part of the preparation we had to do in order to open up a path forward for more updates and improvements down the road. This change shouldn’t affect the functionality of the game for vast majority of players, only exception might be for users of special Windows 7 version. They might have to switch to “Steam beta branch” of the game where we’ll do our best to provide further support. Highlights of this update can be seen here: CHANGELOG

• ADDED: Horses and carts now exist to assist citizens carry harvest products around
• UPGRADED: Harvest resources transport system changed – when harvest comes, not all citizens will now carry products, but only assigned worker will gather harvest, then it will be transported to warehouses via carts
• UPGRADED: New transport system for food harvests will reduce workforce requirements for carriers during harvest season, therefore freeing up more workers
• FIXED: Reduced stutters with orchards during LOD transitions
• FIXED: Bags with harvested cotton are now normally visible when gathered and transported
• FIXED: Beetroot visual size increased and mage properly visible on fields
• OPTIMIZED: A number of 3D models have significantly optimized shadow drawing thus increasing performance
• MODIFIED: Entire game is now switched to Visual Studio 2022

Before we end this announcement, another sneak peek for all of you – preparations have started for another sizeable update that will be added to Patron in mid July. Until then, Govern on!

Hello Patrons! Since you've been asking for this multiple times, we can now confirm we're working on upgrades to transport system in Patron. Time has come to ease the burden on your poor villagers! Our game might be set in a late medieval era, but "fancy rides" were still available, and they are coming soon! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/f8ed5e5fde759553d20ab18e983466349cd736ca.png New system will introduce horses and carts and they will enable for easier and faster transport around your town. Get ready for your first medieval traffic jams ! More information on this is coming soon...

Hello Patrons Lately, we’ve been analyzing your save files in detail and finding ways to extract more performance from Patron. And we did find some incremental ways to get some gains. In our testing these modifications yielded more gains on slower machines, but measurable improvements were visible on all machines. Thank you for assisting us with sending your data files. We’ll continue to search for more gains and will keep pushing updates with optimizations, as well as some other improvements in the future! CHANGELOG

• Optimizations of shadow drawing – greater improvements with lower spec hardware
• Optimizations of props models
• Optimization of multithreading processes

Hope you'll have fun and smoother play

Hello everyone! If you're enthusiastic about city building games and have that creative spark in you, we organized something great for you today! As you may have noticed, Aquatico has been just released, and we've opened an option to combine these two games and stack some nice discounts. Within the first release week, Aquatico will have a release discount, and that can be combined with bundle discount for getting both Aquatico and Patron. If you catch even Patron alone while discounted, that's even better! This way you get two games, two different experiences for a really good price. One is a medieval struggle to survive, the other is a futuristic underwater utopia. Patron and Aquatico will be offered in several different bundles which you can check out in the bundle list where you can choose the packages you prefer.

• Overseer Builder Bundle
• Overseer Builder To The Max
• Aquatico Founder's Bundle

Have fun and enjoy the double fun!

Greetings and salutations fellow governors! We come to you today with a nice new update for Patron. Aquatico, by our colleagues at Digital Reef, is about to be released and since both Patron and Aquatico use the same underlying tech, we've helped the ladies and gents there with some engine updates. We're gradually back-porting these changes and improvements into Patron because... well... why not make Patron better? :) Naturally, there are other fixes too, and we've thrown in a completely new map as well, just for the fun of it ;). We hope to bring more improvements in the near future, and if you haven't already, do check out Aquatico. Give the demo a go and let Digital Reef know what you think. With the kindest of regards, we salute you, governors! Overseer Games https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812300/Aquatico/

Hello city builder fans! If you're up for something completely different in terms of city builders, we invite you to join ongoing trials for upcoming Aquatico! This amazing underwater world presents a completely new challenge among these type of games. Overcome unique hardships of building a colony on the ocean floor, utilize vertical construction system (seafloor and upper domes section) and enjoy the fantastic scenery of deep oceans. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/2aab61ac525894cbec4a5445d0340c30d38fc8d9.png Aquatico is currently in free beta Playtest phase, which will be extended for another day. Simply join by registering for Playtest. After Playtest is concluded, there will also be a demo available on the store page. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812300/Aquatico/ Game is set to release on January 19th 2023, and everyone is welcome to join the trials, or try the demo. If you like what you experience, hitting WISHLIST button is always appreciated! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/4ea788bc409fa6b4bb5c5e277930980f157bbf14.jpg Welcome!

Greetings Patrons! Before anything else, we'd like to apologize for the longer delay since the last update for Patron! There were two reasons: one is our involvement with another project that is in a very sensitive phase, and the other is that we spent a lot of time analyzing your logs and data in search for more paths to optimize Patron. At this stage, the only way to find further increases in performance is to dig pretty deep, and we pursued it this time. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40305257/33f2371091873fd0b394d34ded653354a12c520c.jpg So what would be the highlights of this update? When speaking of new content, there are a couple of brand new maps to play with. Some of these maps also have some added elements of visual scenery. On the optimization front, we did a few things here: optimizations to a number of buildings and trees (trees especially tends to stack requirements due to sheer numbers throughout the maps), adjustments to level of details, major changes to in-game update loops and model rendering. Lastly, thanks to your reports we've identified several incorrect loading hints and these were corrected as well. A bit more detailed changelog: * Added 2 brand new fully handmade maps * Added shark model as scenery in several maps * Tree model optimizations * Several building models optimizations * Modifications to handling of in-game update loops * Major upgrades to model drawing system * Correction to few loading hints All things considered, we've measured a noticeable increase in overall game performance following this update. According to your reports and log data, we'll continue to pursue further improvements in a manner similar to this update. Until then, have fun! Overseer Games