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The Sultan commands you to play a cruel game. Each week you draw a card, and have to complete its challenge within seven days. Forced to make dreadful choices to beat the Sultan’s Game and save your own life, you will have to find a way to survive not just the Game, but its consequences too.
Sultan's Game is a rpg, simulation and adventure game
developed by Double Cross
and published by 2P Games.
Released on March 30th 2025 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 21,870 reviews of which 20,637 were positive and 1,233 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: i5-3570K
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 560
- Storage: 3 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS 12 or later
- Processor: 2GHz or better
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 4GB VRAM
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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Sultan's Game. You've never played anything like this before. The premise: An all-powerful Sultan becomes so bored with absolute power that he takes part in a game - the Sultan's Game. In the Sultan's Game, there is a deck of cards, with each card representing a sort of vice, like Carnality, Extravagance, Conquest and when a card is randomly selected, the player must complete the action given within 7 days or be executed. Here's the challenge: each challenge card has a different level of 'intensity' or quality. For example, there are several 'Bloodshed' cards that could be selected in the deck of varying quality - Stone, Bronze, Silver, Gold - and in order to satisfy the action of the card, a corresponding level of quality must accompany it. So, in order to satisfy a Stone Bloodshed card, the player must kill an NPC of Slave-level quality. Yet, in order to satisfy a Gold Bloodshed card, the player must kill a Royalty-level NPC. And so it goes. When you're first introduced to the game, you have the power of the Sultan, so no cards can go unfulfilled. As the Sultan, when faced with a Gold Bloodshed card, you have the authority to Kill anyone without repercussion. You have the power to Conquer lands, to have Carnal relations with anyone in court.. It's fun for the Sultan. But in the video game, The Sultan's Game, you are not the Sultan. You are a Silver-tiered upper-middle-class dude. The Sultan has selected you to be the guinea pig in the Sultan's game. He's bestowed upon you significant power in his kingdom in order to watch you try to complete the challenges each week, but he will not bend to your will: he is the Sultan, you are not. So: Mechanically, this is a card game. Not a deckbuilder per se. It's a card game more along the lines of 'Cultist Simulator', 'the Horror at Highrook' and so on. It's a puzzle, it's a choose-your-own-adventure. It's a turn-based game where each turn is a day, and each day there are places you can choose to utilize your retinue of NPCs. This game is not for the faint-hearted. Anything goes in the Sultan's Game. There are cards for Men, Women, Animals, Books, Weapons, Exotic Pets, Mechanical Wonders - and they can be intertwined and utilized across each other with sometimes fantastical results. There are levels of challenge and RNG handicap here in a similar vain to RimWorld, in that there is an overarching Storyteller who will bend the rules ever-so slighty to fall in (or away from) your favour. On the most difficult setting, the dice rolls and outcomes are tilted against you, you may only change your Sultan Card once per week (so if you draw that Gold Bloodshed card, you're going to have a hard time killing the Sultan or his close circle easily), and you're generally going to have a challenging time. This mode is actually not too bad, given each game can go on for several hours. That's right, this is ALSO a Roguelike! Yes, you will fail and you will be executed by the Sultan. But due to the escapaes of your life lived you may earn points which can be spent to improve your starting deck: maybe give you a higher level of skill, or elevate your wife to Noble standing, there are many ways to choose and no choice or advantage must be utilized: you can always roll it back. So this game isn't for everyone, for sure. There are very mature themes, but this is a reader's game so the worst images conjured are the ones in your mind. Visually, this game is very unoffensive. The musical score is beautiful. The game isn't without it's problems. While it's a Roguelike, and it is a 'choose your own adventure'', there is also a specific starting point and plot devices which will occur in every run and when you've played it enough you'll know what the outcomes are, and there's a lot of RNG here. But honestly? I love the Sultan's Game. It's so unique and interesting. One session or playthrough takes about 2-3 hours (for me) so I'll play for about 45 minutes at a time, save, and come back to continue the story. This game also feels woefully under the radar. I think more people should be considering a game like this or an approach like this. It's really refreshing. Anyway, that's enough from me on Sultan's Game. The thing's a banger.
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Writing this review partially to address the points in the top (negative) review, and because I enjoyed this game. The big thing to know about this game is that sexual and non-sexual violence is a theme. One-quarter of the cards are Carnality cards, which can be cleared sexually, of course. For some people, this will be a deal-breaker which is fine. You do not need to commit sexual violence to clear these cards. It is possible to clear every one of these cards consensually (albeit by visiting a brothel). This is not to downplay how uncomfortable the other possible routes are, but to underline the game's theme - you are placed in this game by a wicked Sultan, can you navigate through without compromising your morality? The easy option is (generally), the less moral one. I found this to be an interesting angle. It's not written to titillate - I think you'd be very hard-pressed to argue that's the case - which I think is a positive for emphasising this theme and treating it better. I do think it's valid that this will be a step too far for some gamers, and the game does give a warning on start-up. Even if you avoid taking any immoral acts, the options are always there, and if that is too uncomfortable then seeing that warning is a good time to decide to refund. This game is, effectively, a turn-based Cultist Simulator. As with that game, you eventually will have so many things you will find it difficult to find things. Use of the in-game tools for making the experience more smooth is essential, I.E. the quick-assign-last-assigned, sorting your items, etc. It's sometimes a hassle at the late game, but I found at that point I didn't need to do a lot of the events as I already had what I needed. It's a flaw, but given that this "genre" (such that it is) has this as a common flaw, I didn't consider myself particularly aggrieved. That's the criticisms from the top review - my own positives are that it's a far richer web than Cultist Simulator. The writing isn't quite as evocative, but it does have a much more legible setting (because it's just 1001 Nights vibes) which smooths over the cracks better. There are a few errors in the translation, nothing that took me out of it. The drawn graphics are also truly stellar, and wonderfully evocative of its setting. The background music gets a touch repetitive, but that may be because I've been playing it for many hours. There is a progression element, which I appreciated, providing a little freshness on repeat playthroughs as I try to get the endings. Overall I would recommend this game if you: - Enjoyed Cultist Simulator - Want to play a game where you are forced to choose between the morally bankrupt option and the hard option, over and over
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This is, without a doubt, the first candidate for the goty for me. First of all, it is THE spiritual successor to "Cultist Simulator", the game I've spent more hours that I'd like to admit, and the one which enchanted me for digging deep into the whole "card roleplay" thing. Second of all, it is a true RPG. You can play the protagonist as you want, from pious jihad enjoyer to a ravenous sinner who kills and r-s for shits and giggles, to noble Sinbhad-style rogue everyone likes to a chtonic avatar and you can interchange almost every storyline near-endlessly. I'm over 100h in, having done most of the endings (which include magician + hardmode with insight endings + extra cards), and I still find new events and sudden card interactions. Yes, you can gift a double-dildo to a Sultan. Yes, it will break and become a nun-chuck. It will be called "double dragon". While the Cultist Simulator is somewhat serene and is about knowledge of the world, Sultan's Game is about people fucking each other over for a number of motives, constanly. It is about corruption, honor, faith, day to day life, a lot of things, most of which are written well enough to be a separate anime arc. Most of the characters are written well enough to be "at least" an arc villain. There are some downsides - the UI is clunky (stacking events on map, cards refusing to go to different tab, quests and events bugging like characters duplicating, way too few music tracks so it kinda feels like torture of listening them on repeat for 20+ hours (or the weird silence of the "god" events which is even worse), but all of that is patchable. What is amazing - is an incredibly (although with some typically-chinese cliches which don't quite fit, but that's okay) deep and complex to play. I do have a love-hate relationship with the narrators, rerolling golden conquest for golden conquest, or giving you the worst possible event at the worst possible time, but at the same time the feeling when you are confident enough to draw 5-6 sultan cards in order to trigger the right event knowing you can resolve them all - that's superb. TL/DR: - A roleplay experience first and foremost, one of the better written narratives I've seen since Cultist Simulator (in some cases actually better). Hate it so much (buy it, please support the proper ENG localization)
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Since its release I have essentially lived within the tormented trappings of the Sultan's Game, unable to put it down, only now off the back of my first success, have I taken a moment to step away and leave this review. A truly special game, beautiful, evocative and full of passion. I can't speak highly enough about it, it perfectly captures the erotic mysticism of Middle Eastern fairy-tales, encouraging you to burn some incense and sip spiced, lemon infused, tea whilst you play. It is filled with intrigue, an abundance of twisting decision paths, a constant sense of pressure and a deep system of ever growing knowledge. You start off blind desperately trying to appease the Sultan's every debauched whim and with each failed tale, learn more about the potential paths in future runs along with how to prepare and plan. Simple to play yet full of depth, peril, sensuality, role-play potential, choice and consequence. Sordid, heroic, depraved, erotic and thoroughly entertaining through all of it. Everything from the music, the exquisite character art adorning the cards, the lushly embroidered carpet the game plays out upon, to even the little jingles the chime like icons make when you touch them with the mouse just immerses you in the world your protagonist inhabits. The characters you encounter are myriad and intriguing, each with their own tales to tell or tales to write for them and with an extremely satisfying amount of classical stereotype fulfilment. Often these days writers feel the need to diverge from our expected heroic, devious or aesthetic traditions and, whilst sometimes it is warranted (something this game too satisfies), there is a reason classical characterisations are classic; they resonate through cultures and ages timelessly. The power is given to you in how you choose to affect, manipulate and guide the tales of the characters and it does a magnificent job of realising your machinations. My only negative of note is the translation of the text to English, it is littered with many syntactic and grammatical errors, but in spite of this, the game's theme and brilliantly fulfilling execution of its stories, still manages to successfully capture the imagination. It is maddeningly addictive, highly re-playable and you lose hours of the night without even realising it, forever chasing the next satisfying snap of a Sultan Card. There is so much potential to build upon, so many ways the developers, if they so choose, could grow this game beyond the plethora of stories & characters already present, it fills me with excitement. Sultan's Game won't be for everyone, it is a particular nectar, stylistically unique in the gaming space. You have to be able to tolerate a shoddiness to the clarity of the writing and some awkwardness in navigating the user interface, but if you are someone that loves the magic of The Arabian Nights, the thrill of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the adventure of Conan the Barbarian and enjoy puzzles, cards, dice and liberated role-play, then you owe it to yourself to give this game a try. I hope it mesmerises you like it has me.
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The Sultan's Game encourages careful planning, where your actions have consequences. The game, despite the warnings that it explores depravity, does provide you with ways to try and complete your objectives while sticking to your morals. However, the game will test your ability to do so. For example, my first run started me with a card that required I murder someone matching its tier. My wife and loyal noble friend matched it. I was able to spare their lives by seeking honorable bloodshed in a gladiatorial arena. Later I needed to seek intimacy with someone more noteworthy than my wife, which I was able to satisfy by beseeching the Sultan to let me bed his consort, whom I then left alone to remain loyal. Had I chosen to indulge, it would've put significant strain on my wife's loyalty to me which would undoubtedly have had unforeseen consequences later in the run.
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Sultan's Game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
Sultan's Game is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
Sultan's Game received 20,637 positive votes out of a total of 21,870 achieving an impressive rating of 9.22.
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Sultan's Game was developed by Double Cross and published by 2P Games.
Sultan's Game is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Sultan's Game is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Sultan's Game is not playable on Linux.
Sultan's Game is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Sultan's Game. Explore additional content available for Sultan's Game on Steam.
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2P Games
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