Sultan's Game

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.

I purchased this game partially because of a review saying it's rich in plot with moral struggles, dark but not without humanity. No, not true. After hours of playing I'd really like a refund if I could. The UI doesn't respect the player's time, the play-through is very repetitive, but the far-worse part is despite some reviews claim that sex is one good part of the game, there's not as much sex in the game as raping, and that's the "appeal" they are talking about (The protagonist gets raped too, LOL). Many side stories and endings (which it doesn't have too many) require the protagonist to use carnality card in certain ways and all lead to not-at-all spicy descriptions (only plain texts, no details, no images). Some plots: [spoiler]the protagonist being choked to near death/beaten with whips in sex, being f**ked to need to go see a doctor by wife, rape hostages, rape an ugly noble man in public, rape a young girl in other routes adopted daughter.[/spoiler] Again, the game is repetitive, the player is required and encouraged to go through plots like those. There's a long chain of stories in which you have to marry off a woman in your team to a man she has never known in order to let her and you [spoiler]kill a dragon[/spoiler] (the only way to reach certain endings). There's a lot of dialogues from her families saying she's a woman, woman is too weak to do that, they hate being women, and you can confidently tell which side the developers are on from the development listed above with a thin veil of mask. Also the game depicted China to be the heaven the characters should flee to. Didn't expect to see a real place name there, thought the developers would come up with a fictional name.

I absolutely adore the art in this game, it is STUNNING. Gameplay is highly addicting, plays like a casino slot machine almost. Great soundtracks and sound design which makes the gameplay more tactile and satisfying. Writing of the story and characters are fine. The themes presented are dark and the moral choices you are forced to make is bound to make you feel conflicted at varying degrees. As for its major flaw, the ENG translations are still far from perfect, some improvements are required, but if you can read and understand CN, go ahead and give it a try. Great game all in all.

As I found myself entranced in the unfolding of this game's narrative, I realised to my horror that I was being drawn into a game just as wicked and maddening as the protagonist's, as I played, died, played, died in the desperate hope that I may be free of this prison of madness! Truly I have only nightmares of cards, blood, passionate bodies, the faces of those who have slain me, the voice from the darkness that I wish I did not hear. I wish to be free of this game! But I cannot stop playing...

I brought this game for less than a week and already at 36hours. It is a simple but addictive game. 81/100.

Quite deep and flexible in approach time management strategy game with nice style and narrative. English translation is not the best, but it is being worked on, and other languages translations are missing, but might appear in the future.

Definitely recommended. It's like Cultist Simulator, but instead of being in real-time, it's turn-based. There's definitely roguelite elements as well, so expect to fail a lot and learn with multiple playthroughs.

I'm begging on my knees for more contents,dlc,sequel or whatever. This game is so peak.

文本非常精美。一周目卡全都按照我觉得没有背弃道德的方式折断了居然没有特殊成就！玩法密教模拟器like，但感觉简单很多。 从头到尾没有遇到所谓的男同剧情。如果指的是（）的话有点太搞笑了吧，会被取向对不上的人喜欢难道不是很正常？

好玩，学习之余奖励自己玩一会儿苏丹的游戏直接奖励了14个小时。顺便一提，很久以前就已经全成就了，现在还差两个一千零一夜也要收集齐了/ =我要玩一辈子苏丹的游戏aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

画风很美故事有趣 但是三周目了还是打不过hhh🥀

不知道啊，不知道为什么现实里上班游戏里也上班，一眨眼一百多个小时就过去了。 以及。 改改你们的文本错字吧！双头龙！

absolute peak, real hidden gem, globally, at least. even more enjoyable if you can read and understand chinese. the art is gorgeous and the replayability is so good i found myself playing game after game after game. i sank 15 hours into this on the first 2 days after buying lol. mods definitely make it more fun, but unfortunately the majority of them are in chinese. i love how morality is explored here. the protag isn't just some typical do-gooder hero but someone who has the potential to become a person who kills on a whim using the cards as excuse depending on the player's choices. side note, i really wish this game had more recognition globally. anyways, Arzu x Faraj my OTP. 10/10

Love the character design, especially female characters. Though u can make different choices, the game design to let good actions get good reward. love the guidance.

Sultan’s game is an incredible experience for anyone who enjoys deep, branching narratives. Every choice leads the protagonist down a completely different path, making each playthrough feel fresh and immersive. The story quests are engaging, and I find myself completely invested in the world and its characters. Highly recommended, and I’m eagerly looking forward to the upcoming update at the end of June! Hopefully, this update will also fix a few event-related bugs that occasionally disrupt the experience. Additionally, I wonder if we’ll see more English mods in the future. There’s a great selection of Chinese mods, but very few English ones. It would also be fantastic to see improved English translations in certain parts of the game—and perhaps even an official Vietnamese translation? Lastly, I’d love to see more music added to the game. The existing soundtrack is great, but expanding it with new tracks could further enhance the atmosphere and storytelling.

Sultan's Game is an incredibly deep and complex card game. It blends deep strategy and rogue-lite elements to deliver a satisfying "choices really do matter" gameplay. Your games will be spent making difficult decisions or weighing your morales as you choose the "lesser evil" - or not, the choice is always yours. If you enjoy games with social and political elements, TTRPGS, and cards/dice games, then you will probably have a great time with Sultan's Game.

Better than I thought. You really get to choose what you experience, which is good. However, I won't recommend it if you have a particularly high moral standard, because you have to behave immorally to survive in the game. Yet, you certainly can minimize the harm.

真的特别好玩的游戏，吃时间黑洞！不同的玩家和玩法的选择特别的多，而且每一个选择都很有意义，得到的结局的文本也非常的好，沉浸感特别强！！

I love Weather Factory (Cultist Simulator dev you uneducated heathen) - they are a bit camp but they made amazing games. As time has rolled on though - they've lost their edge. There's no real oppressive atmosphere anymore and it feels less like learning about the Occult and more learning about some magical horoscopes. That's why I was so happy to find this game. The unease and immersion you feel playing, perfection. Once again, China has come in and picked up what a great British studio used to do and filled that gap. As an Englishman, I'm miffed - as a gamer, I'm ecstatic. Thanks, Communism.

the only game where you want to both step on the Sultan and get stepped on by the Sultan. not for the weakest of heart and those who deem their own moral more than their own life, you will be forced to kill and make immoral, if not devilish choices just to make sure you get to live another day with your family and beloved ones with your heads intact.

TL;DR : Wait for the localization improvement patch before buying Fantastic game, unique premise and a really fresh game to try, but the confusing localization really does take out some of the wind from its sails. While I wholeheartedly recommend the game I also recommend waiting for the English translation to improve before buying and trying out this game.

siper fun has unexpecting ending due to the stat we have been working on really reccomend to try if you interested in unhinge story want to try strategy and enjoy roguelite. Artstyle is so cool too

太喜欢苏丹的游戏了！精美的立绘，复杂有趣的剧情，以及开放包容的气质一下抓住了我，让我好多天都沉浸在折卡的快感中。我为国内能做出这样个性鲜明和进步的独立游戏感到无比自豪！ 这是一款披着中东外衣的中国游戏，极致模拟了伴君如伴虎的体验的基础上又糅合了对近现代革命思潮和政治哲学的讨论。正/密教的部分以及游戏的很多玩法都致敬了密教模拟器，另一款文案和探索做得十分出色的游戏。我喜欢双头龙工作室的双头龙气质，pro LBGTQ+ 的游戏内容选择，玩家社群层出不穷的有趣创作。美中不足的是在多周目游戏中重复的文本和内容很多，让人很难有动力去做不同的结局。最后，祝苏丹的游戏越来越好！

God this game is addicting...40h in and I just got my first round done, will have to go back to try other routes, 1000% would recommend!

Really fun game! The threat of death every 7 days makes for an exciting gameplay. Personally the english translation is completely readable to me and doesn't hinder my enjoyment at all. I highly recommend it.

It's a very hard, very dark puzzle-card game with unapologetically adult themes. It doesn't feel sanitised in the way a lot of modern games do, if you want to make morally horrendous choices, then you absolutely can. You make your choice and you get to live another day, albeit probably feeling a little bad about what you just made your character do (or made your wife, friends, employees etc do). Each character has their own branching narrative for you to uncover, or squander, and that's something I find really interesting. It's a game that forces you to weigh up the consequences of your choices -- In one run I missed out on an entire branching narrative because I sacrificed a silver character early. And the game does present you with some really difficult choices. One game you might take a character all the way to the end and crown them Sultan. Another, you might kill them off in the first round. I would recommend playing it without a guide, and just exploring and working out the puzzles -- it is much more satisfying that way and the game has a rewind feature on the lower difficulties so you can experiment as much as you want anyway. Overall, this is a game I know I will want to keep coming back to. It really is very good.

What a great and unique experience this was! One could say that its a cross between Cultist Simulator and Yes, Your Grace but really, Sultan's Game is just so unique in and of itself that you should just play it to experience it on your own.

I played through the demo and decided that was enough for me. When the game released, the first updates they had for it were all the QoL upgrades it needed the most. Out of respect for that I decided to buy it and play some more. No regrets. At time of writing this, the latest update is about supporting community modding. Devs like this deserve money. Also remember to feed your daughter as many books as possible so she'll grow up big and strong.

Very nice, although it would be cool if you can respek your bonuses when starting new games, it's kind of harsh when my decisions are permanent.

i played this game for nine hours straight and honestly i never felt that ive played so long. i LOVE history and LOVE reading about different revolutions, so it was very inspiring and fulfilling that i could be the one start a revolution and make real changes in this game. i felt like the game truly began when i killed the old prime minister and later got the question, asking "what was that the poor really needs?"

I've never won once and yet I love it, probably the game of my dreams. I love restarting over and over again because the art and vibes are just that pleasant, music can get repetitive but I can just whip out my own playlist. Addicting/10.

I love this game - it's beautiful and fascinating and it lets me send a cat to advocate for me at court. While I absolutely recommend it, I really hope they eventually either add something to the unlockable bonuses to rein in the RNG a little, because... man. At this point I'm mostly unwilling to let any event I CAN play a card on pass without one, because you need to burn the cards off and you also sometimes need a card to avoid consequences for your actions during a quest chain. But you're entirely at the mercy of RNG to get the cards you need, and the pool is pretty big. So, okay, obvious solution: savescumming. But you can't just reload from inside the game (save and exit is way faster than giving up, but if you've got cards using the latter does let you farm points to buy stuff in Fate's Ledger to make your life easier). If you're in the middle of watching the resolutions for everything you queued up and something has gone awry, especially later in the game where you have a lot going on, it is actually faster to force-close and restart, because you can't access the menu until it's done. Those complaints aside, I absolutely still recommend Sultan's Game; your first couple of playthroughs you're just watching everything implode, but that makes getting a little further each time really satisfying! I still haven't managed anything I'd consider a victory but I'm talking to friends about strategy, so I'll get there eventually. I hope. If you have a tolerance for RNG nonsense and savescumming, gradually trying to bully the game into giving you a half-decent ending is addictively fun.

好玩，感觉比cultist simulator还有意思

好玩！毒性高，玩到半夜三四点都不想睡那种！

I was shocked that my macbookpro can play the game fluently and perfectly with the awesome quality

A new take on a choose your own adventure style story game, and its the exact play style I've had a carnal desire for too long. It's rough and brutal experience you are meant to play though many times, that requires you to make some absolutely brutal and heartbreaking choices. It gets rather tedious at times but overall I find it a truly enjoyable game. The game does use heavy topics in a blunt and matter of fact way so please heed the warnings given by the developers and the public.

This feels like a combo of a deck-builder and visual novel, with skill checks and modifiers added in to scratch that optimization bug. The art and music are great, and there's a sense of exploration as you try to see how different items and people might affect different situations. As you draw different cards to trigger events, you also have to account for timed events that might be useful for resolving cards, which is really fun. Overall, time flies for me when playing this game, and it's very different from anything else I've played.

题材、玩法都很新颖，人物、线索和结局众多，可玩性强，根本停不下来。推荐！

杀时间利器，玩着玩着一下午就过去了……文案超级爽，很对我的胃口

文本量太足了太良心了，今年玩过文本完成度最高、内核最微妙的游戏，而且非常难得的是毫无说教之心，只能感受到一种同人女统治世界、誓给所有人带来快乐与感动的热情。

For people who are unfamiliar with the game, the tutorial and UI are abysmal.

honestly i'm having a great time, haters gonna hate but this game is FUN and thats all i care about

There is lots to like about Sultans Game. Cultist Simulator is the nearest comparison, and much like that other niche title, Sultans Game is is about resource management and knowledge. -Great Tutorial that also sets up the dark narrative and your story in the world. -The Setting is great, allowing for how your fantastical actions make sense. -Rogue-like mechanics give you more tools each time you die (and expect to die alot early) -Characters and followers feel real, with their own goals, likes, and dislikes. -RNG is counter balanced by unfolding events. -The mechanics are easy to learn. The actual challenge of the game comes from understand what events happen and knowing ahead of time how to strategically navigate to your end goal. Credit where credit is due... you commies made a pretty good game!

I was not even this addicted when playing Crusader Kings or Civilization. I see the first light of dawns every morning now 0 o 0

不推荐。 一个封闭的游戏，而且要依靠不断地获取金币不断重开才能有更多的可能性玩到不同的结局和故事。 故事本身的设计虽然是架空历史，但是杀狼杀老虎这种剧情小学生都不感兴趣了。玩了几个小时下来感觉就是既没有开心，也没有探索的欲望。 改进的方式的话，一个角度就是像黑神话一样，把其中的一些内容带入一些真实的历史或者知识，这样玩下来也会有阅历的增长。 第二个就是优化一下没有获得金币的时候，初期的游戏体验，能够更have fun 一些。 目前总体不推荐也不值这个价格。

作為文字遊戲好玩，各種人物支線同任務選擇都有趣，但遊戲設計模式唔適合哩種RPG文字遊戲。 好多支線都係要靠隨機，或者等時間到先可以觸發，有大量重復嘅無聊時間，強烈建議打mod

The content was much more abundant and substantial than expected.

Spiritual successor to Cultist Simulator, but instead of moment-to-moment second-by-second nature of Cultist Sim, this is more laid back and allows you to properly plan out your moves in a turn based setting.

올해 한 게임중에 최고로 재미있었어요!!대사량이 많고 텍스트기반이다보니 유저패치 있어서 너무 감사히 잘 했습니다. 마지막까지 선택 잘못하면 바로 베드엔딩뜨는것도 재미있었고요, 각 캐릭터들의 이야기들도 상세해서 좋았어요. 작은 선택이 큰 스노우볼로 돌아오지만 어떻게든지 또 답은 있는건 재미있네요[spoiler] (다만 왕궁에 색욕카드 써야하는거 몰라서 많이 헤맸어요ㅠㅠ) [/spoiler]

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