Don't Be Patchman

created and published by Naturally Intelligent in 2015, running on Linux

type: action/reflex, strategy, adventure
genre: Science Fiction, Action-Adventure
perspective: bird's-eye (dimetric)
player options: single player

languages: eng

STEAM Powered

Official description

The Sheeple are in trouble - they've been enslaved by the Drones - and it's all Patchman's fault! Now it's up to you to redeem Patchman, rescue the Sheeple, and uncover the awful secret behind the Drone army. Stay out of sight, wear clever disguises, search the forest for seeds, grow fruits and plants, tear down propaganda, awaken the Sheeple to break the control scheme, and power down those nasty robots!

# 2015-08-12 14:15:24 - official description - source

Technical specs

display: raster

Editor notes (2)

Developer here - it's been a huge pain in the butt to "pre-launch" this game! I get that from an outsider's perspective, yet another Early Access game coming out is like looking at another piece of trash falling out of the dumpster, but a nut-ton of effort was spent just getting this thing to run on Linux via Steam. To us, it feels like a launch, and it is a risky move to abandon Windows, not to mention possibly getting hit by Valve's wrath, since we had to pull some stunts within their system to get this Linux-only. However, hopefully at least one Windows user does a second-take when they see a game not immediately available for their platform. I wish I could be a fly-on-the-wall when that happens! ;)

zerothis # 2015-08-16 16:15:50

The developers are violated Steam policy by releasing their game for Linux first and not supporting Windows yet. This was not an easy task as actually posting a game to the Steam store requires numerous Windows-only limits to be fulfilled, or hacked. Their success was not total, as they have yet to find a way to not display the Windows system requirements (which are false, until the Windows port is released). But they did impressively manage to remove the Windows icon from the Steam widget, search results, and all other places where the Windows icon is usually displayed.

zerothis # 2015-08-12 14:21:06