2020: My Country vs Patron
2020: My Country
2020: My Country is the follow-up to the smash hit, My Country, which had more than 15 million players around the world during its peak. In this amazing free-to-play city-building game, you will need to develop and manage a futuristic metropolitan in addition to dealing with the day-to-day problems and occasional disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, in your city. Decorate your city with a variety of leafy greens that will help brighten up the grayish concrete jungle of office buildings and high rises. You can even manually customize your parks in this game!Managing a city isn't a job that just anyone could do, and being the mayor, you are given the crucial task of keeping your people happy and ensuring that their needs and wants are met. Will you be able to develop your dream city?
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!