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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 13.95€ 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
User reviews & Ratings
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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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Okay, I figured out why I was on the fence with the demo. I do like the game. And it's a very unique reason why I like it. Fun? Yes. Dark but done with respect and tasteful? Yes. Challenging to yourself and your self imposed limits of how far you'd go for a goal? ABSOLUTELY YES! Best way I can describe it is how people will always go the good person route in games that emphasize choices and their impacts on the game. Either because they're very empathetic, or because the good guy route is the easiest route. In this game, it's so easy and more immediately rewarding to do a horrible thing to fulfill a card. But it's never pressured onto you aside from the time limit. So long as you plan things out, plan out how to stay a relatively good person, you can have your victory without compromising your inner morals. I never experienced this with a game before! To challenge myself as a person and what I feel I could let pass under stress all for a screen of pixels! It's exhilarating to break a card without doing something totally scummy! So many games would offer choices for your player but never truly have those choices matter. Here, it does! It matters a lot, game-wise and to you as a person! The fun isn't in just playing the game, it's in the challenge of sticking to your morals as a human being and imposing that onto your character in game! Beautifully done! Wonderful! Scary, even! I love it!
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I’ve been looking forward to this game ever since the demo I spent over 20 hours playing – so I was surprised about the amount of negative reviews. Turns out it's review-bombing by a group of homophobic Chinese gamers who are raging about an optional(!) same-sex relationship. Which is frankly absurd – not only because the story branch is completely avoidable and very minor, but because this game is full of dark themes and making morally complex/grey choices, including but not limited to murder (even family members), slavery, general cruelty, exploitation and so on. So a minor same-sex relationship shouldn't be the reason to get on a moral high horse. The game itself is 10/10 and I don't say that often. It improved massively since the demo and is well worth the price. The devs have added new mechanics, improved the UI (the cards are still a bit chotic tho) and the English translation is much smoother. Do mind the description, the game is dark and blood-minded and probably not for everyone but for those of us who enjoy these themes, it's extremely gripping and really makes you ask the question how far you are willing to go. The gameplay of Sultan's Game is unique - the only game it reminds me of is Cultist Simulator but both of these games have different strengths - Cultist Simulator has amazing prose but Sultan's Game has a deeper narrative where all your decisions have consequences and you can shape who your protagonist is. The loop is genuinely addictive and the random generation as well as the scale of the game (1.000.000 words) provides a massive amount of replayablity. PS: Props to the devs for following their creative vision and wording their decision so respectfully!
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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.
Sultan's Game does not currently offer any DLC.
Sultan's Game is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Sultan's Game does not support Steam Remote Play.
Sultan's Game is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Double Cross
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2P Games
Release
30 Mar 2025
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