Patron vs Sunken Secrets
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!
Sunken Secrets
Sunken Secrets is a pretty unique farm simulation game mainly because most of the gameplay takes place under the sea! With magic as the main way to uncurse buildings so you can restore them, you'll need to build a variety of magic-producing structures to collect magic from. Being a farm game, you can also plant, grow and harvest a variety of fictional crops - you're already growing stuff underwater... what you'd expect, right? - which you can then turn into other products like delicious beverages and foodstuff. Aside from being able to trade with other players through the market, Sunken Secrets also has an exploration aspect since you can discover and travel to different islands.If you love playing farm sims with a dash of adventure in it (like Fairy Kingdom, for example), then you'll love Sunken Secrets! You can play the game by downloading it from Big Fish Games or on your mobile devices (Android and iOS).