What Patch Quest is
Patch Quest is a twin-stick shooter mixed with roguelike runs and metroidvania-style progression. You play an Explorer inside Patchlantis, a jungle labyrinth full of monsters, rugged terrain and booby-trapped ruins. Your main tool is a Lasso: you use it to capture monsters and then mount them, which lets you take over their skills. Some monsters fly, some swim, some leap across hazardous terrain, and every one of them can fight. There are more than 50 monster species, each with its own set of abilities, so the mount you pick changes how you move and shoot through a room.
Runs are built on a patchwork maze that reshuffles each night during a storm, so the layout you learn today will not be the one you get tomorrow. When you die, you go back to base camp, but shortcuts you unlocked, gadgets you earned and your monster collection stay with you. Along the way you gather plants and minerals, unlock gates, and push deeper into the island. The game is cute on the surface, but it is a bullet-hell challenge that expects you to get better over time rather than win on the first try.
Playing it together
Patch Quest lists Local Multiplayer and Co-op, and it supports Remote Play Together, so friends can join over a connection instead of sharing one screen in the same room. Everyone plays in the same run, lassoing monsters, mounting them and fighting through the maze as a group. Because each mount gives different movement options, the party can split the work: one player handles flight or swimming while another covers ground movement and combat.
Before you start
Expect a steep difficulty curve. The tags include Difficult, Bullet Hell and Action Roguelike, and the store text is blunt about it: you will be sent back to base camp when you die, and you have to get good. Death is part of the loop rather than a failure state, since shortcuts, gadgets and your monster collection carry forward between runs.
Progression is slow and steady. You level up captured monsters and keep them as pets, collect over 200 plants and minerals, gather ammo fruits to blend into ammo smoothies, and open shortcuts that reach deeper, more dangerous zones. The maze reshuffles each night, so memorizing a route only gets you so far — learning which monster to mount for a given stretch of terrain matters more. Bring patience, and treat each run as a chance to add another species to your collection.