Patron vs Townsmen
Patron
Patron is a medieval-themed city-builder that is quite similar to Banished. In this game, you play as a pioneer sent by your King to colonize a new region. With a group of peasants to help, it is up to you to build a town from the ground up and develop it into one of the most prosperous colonies of the empire!The game is all about optimizing production chains and subsequently, pursuing advancements. So, at the beginning, it’s important to produce enough raw materials so you can have enough materials to “fuel” your other production facilities in order to craft more profitable items. As your town expands, you’ll need to make sure your production scales up accordingly, be it by upgrading existing structures or building new ones. This is where the challenge really comes in.
Of course, besides upgrades and expansions, you’ll want to invest in research so you could unlock better and, hence, more productive buildings, as well as new production facilities which will then allow you to produce items that are usually more luxurious and lucrative to trade. From time to time, you will receive various edicts from the King or news of certain events. You’ll then be expected to choose between the two decisions provided.
All in all, Patron is definitely a much better version of Banished in every way, and this saying something since I’ve enjoyed playing Banished. This game’s a solid medieval city-builder with a nice level of difficulty which matches what a midcore gamer like me can handle. The game is definitely worth the cost!
Townsmen
Townsmen by HandyGames gives you a chance to build your own thriving empire starting from a small village.From your castle, you get to run your empire and build a stable economy for your citizens. With a huge variety of buildings, players can extract resources, harvest a huge variety of crops and strengthen their empire defenses with guard towers, canons and more. Bandits are always on the lookout for looting your empire so a strong defense is a key to a strong empire in this game. Moreover, seasonal disasters will also pose a challenge to your citizens, testing your disaster management skills.
With a huge variety of management challenges, Townsmen is one of the best city simulations out there.