28 Oct 2025Developer post

Patron And Pompeii: The Legacy – Historical City Builder Bundle

Hello all! We’re excited to share that Patron is now available in a bundle with Pompeii: The Legacy ! If you own one of the games, you’ll automatically get a 10% discount when purchasing the other. View game page About Pompeii: The Legacy Pompeii: The Legacy is a historical city

14 May 2025Developer post

Update - new decoration models

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 perfec

19 Dec 2024Developer post

Patron is participating on Steam Winter sale right now!

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% o

26 Nov 2024Developer post

New Kaiserpunk Playtest is around the corner

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

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.

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] .

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?

See you there!

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

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21 Oct 2024Developer post

From Patron to Pompeii: a New Journey in Ancient Rome!

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

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.

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.

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/

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And don't forget to check out Kaiserpunk coming in early 2025 by Yours truly, Overseer Games ;)

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

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02 Sep 2024Developer post

Games from Croatia steam event started - choose your discounts

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, unkn

23 Jul 2024Developer post

Massive 80% discount available - Patron Daily Deal starts

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% ! Organiz

23 Jul 2024Developer post

Hot summer update – v1.906.0

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.

18 Jul 2024Developer post

Summer update on the way

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

10 Jun 2024Developer post

Try out free demo of Kaiserpunk during Next Fest

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 Pat

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.

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...

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!

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!

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01 May 2024Developer post

Steam Farming Fest 2024

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

26 Apr 2024Developer post

Pre-summer upgrade – update 1.904.0

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

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.

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

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22 Apr 2024Developer post

Next update coming by the end of the week

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 sa

31 Jan 2024Developer post

Getting both the lack and excess of population under control – Update 1.902.0

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 la

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.

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

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!

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16 Oct 2023Developer post

Story questline addition + another targeted optimization pack

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 thi

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.

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.

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!

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28 Aug 2023Developer post

Next big update and Story questline is coming soon!

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 nex

30 Jul 2023Developer post

Pressing on – update 1.700.0

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

22 Jul 2023Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Survival citybuilder Patron now has a creative mode

Survival citybuilder Patron is nearing its two year anniversary, and to celebrate its developers have released an update which adds a new creative game mode. Instead of struggling to quell social tensions and navigate disasters, creative mode unlocks everything, gives you infinit

21 Jul 2023Developer post

Celebrating two year release anniversary with awesome update and hefty discount!

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

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:

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…

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

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

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09 Jul 2023Developer post

Fixes before the big update

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

Updates & announcements

Greetings Patrons!

Greetings Patrons!

Overseer Games

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See you there!

Greetings Governors!

Behind Pompeii: The Legacy

Why Pompeii: The Legacy?

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Have fun and happy sale hunting!

Greetings Patrons!

Have fun and govern on!

Hello Patrons,

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

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Greetings Patrons!

Welcome and have fun!

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Hi honorable Patrons!