Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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Patch Quest
Developer Lychee Game Labs
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge! From the Steam store page
192 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 1, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
92
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161 positive · 14 negative
95% range 87–95%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,613 of 2,794 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 192 · most liked firstYou know what's mad? Patch Quest is like five different games that actually managed to NOT be complete rubbish. Usually when developers try to do everything, it's like watching an amateur talent show where some pillock thinks they can juggle chainsaws while singing opera. Spoiler: they can't. But THIS? This game's the exception. Imagine a game where every single time you start, the whole bloody map reshuffles itself like my uncle Miles after three pints - completely unpredictable! But here's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cozy city-building strategy game 'Anthill Village' gets a playable demo. From the creator of Patch Quest. Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/3137880 #indiegame #indiegames #steam #gaming #newgame
unlabelledView post →This game introduced me to the world of indie games, and I LOVE it. No other game will take its place, not even Silksong.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is very underrated go to fanatical and buy it its a part of the newest bundle i got it for less than a dollar
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll be up front about this one, it's a pretty good game but it's way too big. The map is huge, you are forced to redo large portions of the map due to the ramping damage the enemies begin to deal, and the shortcuts aren't that useful to get to far away places. I enjoyed my time for about 6-7 hours but then everything sort of felt the same. Mounts don't vary too much from eachother, most bosses play about the same, there's only like 8 types of bullets and they are going to run out in like 20…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Underrated masterpiece. When I first played this, all the forgotten childhood memories of playing Pokémon Ranger flooded my mind, and WOW was it great. Complete the encyclopedia, discover new animals and areas, and get every pet and sticker you can. It has the formula of a roguelite, but as you advance, you can get progressively further on the map because of shortcuts, so it doesn’t get tiring at any moment. Also, I love the bullet hell gameplay and the diversity that each mount and weapon…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game looks neat and plays neat, except the local co-op is a deal breaker for myself and my partner. I was getting between 3 and 7s input lag. Which made for a really disorientating experience for myself. If only it was online co-op..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately Patch Quest is far too repetitive to recommend. Fun for ~5 hours, but you've seen all the game has to offer by then. Even for standard game completion, it's tedious for no reason. Fast travel only works for tiles you've visited in this run, and you will be constantly interrupted by enemies along the way. The map isn't even randomly generated, so the game is intentionally wasting your time. The enemy damage scales to force a restart after about an hour, so you will be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cant recommend this game. Honestly 94% is crazy. Yet another roguelike that really makes a shallow game. Theres just really repeating the same thing over and over whether you are doing story or the challenges. You are going patch to patch in a bullet hell roguelike killing mobs. Theres nothing rewarding about playing this game. As a completionist I started with trying to get all the gold medals. And its really sad to see .5% of people who play this game supposedly beat all levels with gold…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rolled the credit with Patch Quest! This game took longer than I thought but in a good way! I felt pretty engrossed by it. There wasn’t really a moment that I felt “ugh, why does it not end yet?” Despite it being rogue-like, there’s also a great sense of progression. 1/3
unlabelledView post →One word: Wow. This might be my favorite game of the year. Don't let the art style fool you- this ain't Scribblenauts. Patch Quest is a hybrid of lots of things: Twin-stick shooter, bullet hell, roguelike, metroidvania, and collectathon, to name a few. It does all of them well. What you've got here is a run-based expedition system with upgrades that reset after you die, where the grand structure of the map doesn't change between runs, but the contents of the rooms do. As a result, there's a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a cute game, but it's not 15 bucks worth. It's a very toned down version of bullet hells with enemy variety mainly consisting of enemies you mount and ride. Enemies basically are the same that just shoot different symbols at you that can afflict you with status effects. (Slowdown, bad accuracy, etc.) Never felt pressured to get rid of specific enemy over another. Your gun never changes, you can only change it's effects (rapid fire, spread, etc.) I spent only a dollar on it, but through…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It might look childish at first glance, but this game is a lot of fun if the idea of dodging bullets and collecting Pokemon that you can ride sounds good to you. It also plays very well on the Deck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[ #GOBTV STREAM SCHEDULE ] ouuughh stream shceudle patch quests patch quests patch quests It's mostly Patch Quest MSQ this week while I find another thing to add to the rotation. Also Warframe Wednesday continues! This month's Goal is Lesbian Horror Game, Signalis
unlabelledView post →Been playing Patch Quest recently. It’s a monster-taming adjacent with a mix of “roguelike”/metroidvania-ish and bullet-hell. I’m having a blast with this game. And the designs are very cute, and the gameplay mechanics are very rich. Don’t let the look fool you tho because it gets quite difficult 😂
unlabelledView post →I had this game when it was a WIP on Discord, and it's been a blast since day 1.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would particularly recommend this game to Steam Deck owners. It's a great game to just start up and do a quick run with pauses in between if need be. Probably one of my favorite games for the deck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easy to learn, hard to master. This ain't the first controller-centred game I beat with keyboard and mouse: I've already 100%'d NeuroVoider, a game reminiscent of this one in some ways. Plus the puns are just plentiful and beautiful. Plus, it runs really well! Shame you can't rename your island after; I accidentally named mine "iiiiiiii".
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It takes a while to get used to this but it has a massive amount of content. Only buy if you're OK using both joysticks simultaneously all the time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FUN FUN just wish it didnt force local co-op if anyone knows how to co-op online please let me know get this game! rogue and bullet hell all in one
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Surprisingly difficult and engaging bullet hell, with a healthy topping of cute/funny mechanics and cuter monsters. Will probably become boring after a while, given that part of the intended gameplay loop is discovering new stuff, and there's a finite amount of new stuff to discover, but honestly? That's actually kind of a refreshing change in these days of must be marketable, must addict as many people as possible for as long as possible, must keep going even after the game should reasonably…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Patch quest has the best features, like, two-player local coop, custom difficulty (THERE'S A SLIDER, it goes up to 11), and the most cute pokemony animals out there. You want to catch'em all, and give them names, like LEVEL99999BOSS, or Pierrette, or Procrastinosaur. We won, we got everything, but now there are roguelike challenges or something. MORE.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredible game, world building and mechanics. Often doing runs just trying to survive till you can open up that shortcut so next run you can make it to the boss in better condition. Picking up skills or planting pins that will give me the buff I need to get far in that run. I ended up uncovering all of the map and had a really good time doing so. Now Ive missed a few things and by looking at the map Id not know where to even start so I am not going to bother but this was a lot of fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a shockingly mindless game for me, and despite how far I got in my first run, I didn't really feel like I was getting better. I felt a bit like I was just lucking out, especially given the amount of trouble I was having avoiding danger. There's also a lot happening at once visually, which makes it hard for me to focus on what I'm doing and where my projectiles and attacks are headed. I also kinda felt like I'd rather be watching the development video about the game as opposed to playing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a cute little game! Patch Quest is a game just brimming with personality. It combines a roguelite metroidvania with a dash of Pokemon where you explore the mysterious land of patches. It plays mostly like a twin-stick bullet hell shooter but there is some in-run progression to achieve. By and by you unlock different modes of metaprogression like your own little menagerie of weird critters. A frog mixed with a camel? A warthog made of leaves? A triceratops made of jello? It's quirky in an…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We played this game co-op as 2. Got 100% except for pins (85% of those). The game is great fun, one of the best co-op games out there. Great world + enemies design, very fun shooting gameplay with many different abilities. Absolutely worth the money. 9/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Patch Quest is a game where you blend different fruits into smoothies to put hundreds of local wildlife to sleep all in an effort to "save" the environment while you are actively siphoning the local resources. Also it's a bullet hell. 10/10 would patch again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game took longer than I thought but in a good way! I felt pretty engrossed by it. There was never a moment that I felt “ugh, why does it not end yet?” Despite it being rogue-like, there’s also a great sense of progression. Like a metroidvania game, you explore the map over time discovering new areas and monsters. But there’s also a shift in how you approach the game after a certain point like you suddenly realize there’s a goal to achieve and instead of fooling around, you start…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i dont like it, its kindah boring to me. and i played a few rogue lites. edit: i cant see myself investing alot of time into this as it feels repetetitive.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really cute and colorful twin-stick bullet hell explorer/collector rogue-lite sticker game. You take multiple runs into the wilderness, with enemies getting stronger over time, but resets when you return to base, so difficulty is based on you taking a risk/reward calculation to keep going or to return to base with your current haul. There's also the stat/perk selection going on each run, along with capturing animals (bosses included) that can affect a minor change in play style with the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The artwork is cute, and the sound effects and gameplay are enjoyable. However, after a couple of runs, things quickly become boring. There is nothing that motivates me to progress. There's nothing to aim for. There's nothing about each biome that makes me want to travel there. Just wandering around patches, fighting mobs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A joyously accessible bullet hell shooter roguelite; sprinkled with creature collection & skill-based elements! (8.5/10) This was a delight to play. I basically backlogged it for 3 years; being bought on Mar 2022 and playing the EA for ~4h and never again until Mar 2025. At some point I thought I’ll play it once it’s truly done updating, and keep getting distracted by other games. On a whim a month ago, I looked back at my backlog, decided to just jump into this now that the dust has settled;…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very amazing game, its art style is amazing, the monsters are amazing, the pins are amazing, heck, even the lore is amazing, i would recomend this game, A LOT
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Extremely fun twin stick shooter with really charming art and dialouge, and its actually pretty difficult too(im on keyboard instead oif controller tho idk how much that would affect the difficulty) I have watched the extremely interesting and entertaining devlog series and i finally was able to get around to playing it. i havent played that much yet but i am very excited for what i will find deeper in Patchlantis! 10/10 no notes!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game but not recommended for completionists, there's tons of stuff to collect but doing so often feels more fiddly than fun. I was originally planning on 100%ing Patch Quest but it's extremely unrewarding going around the map trying to track down the pins I missed during my playthrough (one where I got all four gems and unlocked/beat the final boss, no less). But, again, I got a solid 25 hours out of the title before running into that wall so I still have no issue giving it an easy thumbs…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And I think it comes down to the structure of the “dungeon.” Specifically, Absolum and Patch Quest have an actual map in the game where you can traverse through different routes that are not completely randomized every time.
unlabelledView post →it's good and fun but extremely repetitive
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice Roguelite, very friendly to casuals or Hardcore players (:'
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →something id love to see is taking extra pins you have in your house and having them with you on new runs as extra things to put in power spots. So meany times i have only gathered the ones i need (new shiny ect ) and no extras to put in new or old mapslots that i stuck. Putting extra totems/usefull plants in your bag and ploping them on the map would be so nice but good game fun enough gameplay loop to keep you hooked
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great twin-stick shooter/bullet hell with cute monsters, don't think there's much left to do on my first save file although a procedurally generated map in some kind of new game+ would go v hard :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Underrated gem so far, the core gameplay loop is addicting and unlike other rouges I always feel like I'm making progress. Plus it goes on sale for insane value, so.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's weird this game went under the radar of content creators who cover mainly "incremental / roguelike" game, because this game has it all! Also loving the dev logs of Lychee Games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game snuck up on me to become one of my favorite roguelikes of all time. It’s a great pick up and play game, and I always feel like I’m making some progress. Plus the core idea is very unique. Highly recommend, especially on steamdeck!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed Patch Quest. I collected over 85% of the pins and mounts, I beat the game (the real ending) and feel content with my playtime. I can see myself coming back and trying to do some of the challenges, even if that means I don't come back for a year. If you have children who want to play with you on the same game (very rare please cherish your time with them), this would be a perfect game for you to play. I dare say its much easier with co op. If this game is on your wish…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is addictive once you do one run then you are going to want do at least 2 or 3 more and all of the monster designs are adorable and interesting but most of the attacks are used by multiple monster but they are sill fun to use and now for best part of the game the biomes its so cool to discover new a biome with now pins and monster also as you can probably tell THIS GAME IS GREAT !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →some folks in my hometown developed (a rare thing!) a farming game called Coral Island i started playing Cult of the Lamb (several years late) there's a cool monster-riding roguelite called Patch Quest tldr i got a gaming pc and been catching up on pc games lol steamcommunity.com/id/franzanth...
unlabelledView post →First of all it is a super collect-a-thon for those that like collecting, although you aren't forced to do any of the collecting really, but you do get lots of upgrades and pets this way. One of the things you'll be collecting is monsters/pets that you ride of which there is a wide variety of monsters and each of them have their own set of special abilities that are also reasonably varied, but with so many there are a lot that are similar. There are something like 10 difficulty settings so you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game watched the video on it's full development, thought i might like it. and now that i have it it's pretty good. the casual mode is both easy and hard enough to create a good environment for even the worst at games (like me). recommend this to anyone who want's a challenging game that's still fun enough to play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so cute and low commitment, it's easy to just get sucked into the loop for hours. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a game like this at all before! If you're tired and you don't want to think too hard and just want something to plug into, this may be your game. I got this game on sale for $3.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Known about the game for a long time but the art style put me off, anyways finally bought it for less the £3 on sale (now i do feel kinda bad) its Fantastic and the ideas the team have & how they present them to you is very Unique and really fun, don't let the art style fool you because this can get very tough but its got that "one more run" factor to it, the art style quickly becomes part of its charm aswel The moster taming aspect fits and ofcourse leveling up pets unlocks new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →been following this game since the devlogs and now I get to finally play it and it was worth every penny. I enjoyed exploring around the map, collecting pins, opening shortcuts and fighting the dungeons for even more shortcuts. the game is brutally hard and I kept on dying but eventually I was able to push forward. the monsters are very memorable and even though I forgot some of their names, I know each and every one of their abilities. whenever I enter a room and see one of my favorites,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cute monster catcher. It can feel a lil unwieldy at times but still pretty fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most fun local coop experiences I've had in my entire gaming career. Learning how to play each of the creatures and discovering favorites is very fun and will keep you coming back for many hours.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its too much fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not recommended - getting killed in 5 or 6 hits even at max stats is nonsense in a game that is quite long and where the enemies are damage super tanks. Please consult actual footage before buying the game. It is not fancy as the trailers make it seem. The things you have to deal with this game on top of the massive low-asset repetition are strong reasons to not buy this game. It is a roguelite of the most stale sort. It is one of those roguelites where the enemies kill you fast and randomly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a cowboy, baby
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best twin stick shooter couples couch co-op game. Lots of screaming when a last-minute wrangle saves a run.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →cowboy simulator (roguelike edition)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found Patch Quest after watching the dev’s YouTube video about their struggles making it, and I’m so glad I checked it out. It’s one of those games that looks cute and surprisingly taking 40+ hours of my life. The monster riding, bullet-hell combat, and exploration all just click. Every creature feels fun to use, and the jungle-like zones are full of personality. The progression never feels grindy, and it’s easy to lose hours without noticing (in a good way). It’s balanced, creative, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What the hell, this game is awesome! Many have attempted to follow the "patch-like" style of graphics, but Patch Quest simply takes the cake on that one, a great achievement on its own!
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