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Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
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, MacOS and Linux
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 9.19€ on Gamivo.
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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
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64-bit)
- Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz (e.g., Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon X2)
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated GPU (Intel HD Graphics 4000 / AMD Radeon R5), or Entry-level discrete GPU (NVIDIA GT 1030 / AMD RX 550) supporting OpenGL 3.3+
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 3D acceleration enabled (e.g., Mesa drivers for AMD/Intel, or proprietary drivers for NVIDIA)
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I really, really, REALLY love this kind of game. I'm the person who really enjoyed Cultist Simulator despite its insatiable grind that makes me so annoyed, who re-running depressing rounds of The Life of Suffering of Sir Brante to be an exercise in showing the absolute beauty of how life can persevere, who thinks that Roadwarden is a modern masterpiece of text-based resource management. If you've ever heard of any of those games, you should instantly buy the Sultan's Game – but come in with an understanding that its themes are somehow even more brutal and sinister than the examples I just listed. If you haven't – think of it as a board game where you have agents that you get to place, constantly, each turn. Except the spaces are constantly appearing and disappearing, and if you don't act quick enough, you can permanently miss opportunities. I read a negative review that described this game as basically "torture porn", as you're forced to murder the people that you love and do horrible things to those that are left over. I think if you were a completionist, that'd probably be the case – but I find myself playing the game in a very specific way: how can I be the most good? How can I overturn the corrupt system? How can I show my wife that I love her while being forced to do these terrible things? How can I use the cards that chain me into this system towards a better aim? I think it means that I'll miss out on some absolutely crazy endings, but I'm fine with that. This game is unbelievably compelling to me, and feels like an evolution of all those original games I mentioned at the top of my review. If you have even a semblance of love for strategic, agent-based board games, or stories about trying to come from underneath a terrible system, this is a perfect game for you. And also, let's just say that not making this a real-time strategic card-placing game (like Cultist Simulator, where you are literally counting down seconds waiting for timers) is so much better!
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This game is a lot of fun when you're just playing reactively, but the moment you start making plans it becomes torture. Want to get all 4 of the sultan's guards on your side for a revolution? Sorry idiot, you misused a stone card 40 turns ago, and now YOU'RE COMPLETELY LOCKED OUT OF FINISHING THIS QUEST. No matter how much you check the wiki, you will never have checked it enough to NOT get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over. It's also incredibly easy to get locked into a dead man walking situation, where not only have you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, and won't know until later, but that ♥♥♥♥ up is fatal and locked in. And it's hard to keep track of all the potential ♥♥♥♥ ups because you're spinning 20 different plates at a time most of the time, your daughter wants to learn a dead language and she needs YOU to help teach her, this dude wants to marry your daughter, your comrade in the revolution wants to create a superhero and needs you to pick someone to be in the suit, your best friend wants to have a threesome with you and your wife, your wife is upset you keep ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ prostitutes, this prostitute needs you to invade her father's lands and kill him, the vizier wants your help kidnapping your comrade in the revolution, the church wants you to help with recruitment, the orphans are back and need food, your apprentice just found out his mother killed his father and needs your help processing it, your cat just ate the priceless golden bird you bought, your half sister wants ludicrously expensive jewelry so she can infiltrate the harem, the lead harem girl is being plagued by nightmares from an eldritch god and wants you to stop them, and on top of ALL OF THAT, you're still playing the Sultan's Game, and have to complete whichever task is on the card by the end of the week or you die. It's fun but stressful, is what I'm trying to convey.
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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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9/10, especially considering that the developer is a relatively unknown Chinese studio. Good Things: It’s very story-rich and immersive. The writing is excellent—never too heavy-handed or on-the-nose. I’ve never played a game with such a distinctly adult tone before. This is truly refreshing in an age where most games aim for a PG-13 audience. It is not a game about being a bland hero, it is a game about the human lust for more. Best of all, each round only takes about 30 minutes at first. The game is easy to learn but hard to master, making it ideal for adults with full-time jobs. I’ve noticed some negative reviews criticizing certain "choices" you can make in this game. Some people are also upset about the possibility of LGBT-related content. But as a history nerd, I can say that real human history (with the Ottoman Empire as an example) has been far wilder than anything here. And seriously, if you want, you can just focus on having fun with your wife. Bad Things: There is a lack of content after a few hours. The UI is a bit tricky. But otherwise those are all problems that can be fixed by a few updates or DLCs.
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Sultan's Game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
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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 playable and fully supported 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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