In the race to colonize planet Mars, everything is up for grabs.

Offworld Trading Company’s quick and intensely competitive matches pit up to 8 players against each other on randomly generated maps. Players must quickly determine the best path toward building a self-sufficient colony that can extract the abundant Martian resources while maintaining profitability – and surviving the “talents” of shady black-market characters who are all too happy to raid any player’s shipments or smuggle a paralyzing EMP device into any colony for the right price.

The Patron and the Patriot DLC adds colony classes, new campaign content, new characters, and six interactive stories that convey life on a newly colonized Mars.  Designer Bob Thomas worked closely with Soren Johnson to bring greater immersion to the popular economic real-time strategy game.

Features include:

• Colony Class - Each colony now specializes in one area of the economy, altering local market conditions in a variety of ways.
• Campaign Length - The campaign tournament can now last for 4, 7, or 10 games. Each length comes with its own balance tweaks and gameplay subtleties.
• Wholesale Orders game mode - Not all colonies want you to build habitats and work modules for them. Now, some want your company to supply a variety of wholesale goods instead.
• Two New Characters - New CEOs with new gameplay perks.
• Story-Driven Campaigns - Six interactive short stories about life on Mars, available to experience through playing the new characters on each different length of campaign.
• New Staffing Perks and Achievements

"Offworld Trading Company puts the player in the position of CEO of a company on Mars," said Soren Johnson, CEO of Mohawk Games. "Your opponents are other companies and your weapons are resources and market forces.  With The Patron and the Patriot, we wanted to further develop the immersion of the game's setting on Mars."

To that end, P&P's included short-stories flesh out what life on Mars means for colonists, workers, and corporate titans alike. These interactive stories are driven by the player's choices in the game.  This interactivity ties into the 17 new colony classes which impact local market conditions for players to deal with.  

Combined with the already compelling game mechanics of Offworld Trading Company, The Patron and the Patriot DLC fleshes out the setting and brings a new level of replayability to one of the most innovative strategy games released in recent years.

The Patron and the Patriot is only $4.99.

Unlike traditional RTS games, there are no military units and what you need to win can change at a moment’s notice because on Mars, there are no rules in the free market. None of the 13 resources is more powerful than any other, and everything is for sale. Players gain cash by selling excess resources like carbon, fuel, and silicon on the open market, and spend it buying the resources they’re short on. Prices fluctuate in real time forcing players to adapt their strategy; dump a bunch of iron on the market and its price will crater, making other players’ stockpiles worth much less in the near term.

The game is won when the ultimate cutthroat capitalist completes buys out the stock of all their rivals, thereby seizing control of the entire planet’s economy.

In Offworld Trading Company, the marketplace is the battlefield.

Offworld Trading Companyis currently available on Steam or through Stardock.