Patron
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 12.8h
- Value
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2023. It has been discounted 56 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Foundation ($34.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Depraved ($19.99, scores 8).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 363 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
84% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 10:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
population growth control needed, the game becomes unplayable as you need to build houses every five minutes. I'm not playing it again
I hope I am wrong but the game seems to use generative AI for it's story-mode 'characters' and their voices... its rather obvious... and I wish they were more transparent with this - I would never have bought it if I knew.... This was really disappointing and I had to stop playing it. I thought it had some great potential too... it would need ironing out to make it an excellent city-builder but the low-effort...
Best settlement game since Banished. Hard to find well balanced, not overwhelming or too simplified, with challenging issues still.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Patron scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1538570/patronReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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