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Sultan's Game

$24.99
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Metacritic:
81
Developer:
Double Cross
Publisher:
2P Games
Platforms:
Windows Mac
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About This Game

Sultan's Game is a narrative-driven simulation game combining card strategy, storytelling, and resource management. Step into a world inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, where desire, intrigue, and madness intertwine as you craft your own dark destiny.

  • Seven Days to Survive: Each week, draw a Sultan's Card and fulfill its twisted demand - Carnality, Extravagance, Conquest, or Bloodshed - within seven days, or face execution.

  • Butterfly Effect Storytelling: Every choice creates rippling consequences, influencing character relationships and determining the fate of the entire world.

  • Strategic Card-Based Management: Use cards to deploy allies, resources and objectives. Craft strategies to survive deadly challenges and find victory in desperation.

  • Multiple Endings & High Replayability: Unlock hidden storylines and powerful items using Fate Points. Discover 50+ unique endings across countless playthroughs.

The Sultan forces you, his minister, to participate in a cruel game: draw one of four cards, and complete its challenge within seven days – or you will be executed. The Carnality Card pushes you into the pursuit of carnal pleasures. The Extravagance Card requires lavish spending to be fulfilled. The Conquer Card forces you into perilous adventures. Finally, the Bloodshed Card demands a human sacrifice.

You must find a way to complete these harsh trials – and weather its dire consequences. Familial betrayal, lustful madness, power struggles, and the loss of your own humanity threaten your sanity; the price of survival might end up being too high…

Use your wits and luck to uncover the secrets behind this story of love, lust, betrayal, loyalty, bravery, and kindness, and turn them to your advantage. Choose if you want to be a willing accomplice of the Sultan’s whims, or secretly plot regicide to end his tyrannical rule. Support your spouse in dire times or sneak into the queen’s bed. Embark on epic adventures to become a dragon slayer or heed the call of dark gods.

In this turn-based resource management game, you will have to play cards to allocate allies, resources, and task objectives. Accumulate wealth, intelligence, and equipment; complete NPC quests to recruit allies, build your influence, and become a power broker in the Sultan’s court.

Though each Sultan card demands a high cost to fulfill, it also presents an opportunity to dispose of deserving enemies, pursue forbidden romances, and find excuses for the most rebellious and terrifying acts. Initially, the Sultan's tasks are a terrifying countdown on your life, but as you master the game, they become opportunities to grow stronger. The challenge shifts from mere survival to making impactful choices for the fate of others and your own soul.

This game pushes cruelty to the extreme. You might kill your loved ones to please the Sultan, or use a card as an excuse to impose your desires on anyone who trusts you. However, extreme actions invite hatred and retribution, and even your dearest spouse may abandon you if you overstep.

Victory doesn’t come from being a saint or a madman. You must make choices, find your limits and principles, and witness the diverse reactions of humanity under extreme conditions.

Each playthrough offers a unique experience based on the sequence of drawn Sultan cards. Regardless of victory or defeat, players earn points to enhance resources for the next round, unlock powerful allies and equipment, and build their playstyle. Various strategies for resource and story opportunity management lead to different endings. Become a trusted minister, overthrow the Sultan, find a utopia free from his control, or summon dark gods to destroy everything. Multiple methods to achieve the same ending and their interconnections provide extensive exploration and puzzle-solving opportunities.

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User Reviews

Very Positive
100 user reviews
90%
Positive
15 hrs at review
Recommended

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...

38 helpful
48 hrs at review
Recommended

A very surprising game that keeps pulling me back. The characters, lore and the story are written much better than I would have ever expected from a game of such a genre. The dark themes are handled well, there is some humour in it too sometimes, and even heartbreaking moments make this game feel very rich and rewarding. I am not the kind of person to farm achievements, but after getting my first ending I could not stop myself from starting a second run (and more haha) to discover the other endings. The gameplay is easy to grasp (the tutorial functions exceptionally well in my opinion - it explains the gameplay and introduces the overall dark tone of the game at the same time, so you immediately understand what you're getting yourself into) and once you get into the flow of things, time WILL fly. You WILL plan on playing for one hour, but then realise 5 hours have passed. Mark my words. Slight spoilers, but what other game will let me use a [REDACTED] to apologize to my wife...

7 helpful
16 hrs at review
Recommended

day 120439325 of playing sultan's game. i'm starting to see strange auras on people. the end is still 16523456 cards away.

3 helpful 1 funny
95 hrs at review
Recommended

There are too many threads and possibilities that all lead to some kind of ending, but from my personal preference I would call this "How to survive and gather a revolution against a sadistic tyrant while playing his clown, possibly becoming another tyrant in the process, while on the side some gods keep pestering you to serve them and some adventurers want to drag you away to slay a dragon." The base premise of the game is that you have to randomly pull cards from a deck, each card demanding you to complete a type of action within 7 days: kill, conquer, have sex, or waste money, and each action must be sufficiently distinct to not bore the Sultan. You fail, the Sultan kills you. As the game progresses, more kinds of literal deadlines will show up. Mechanics-wise, it has cards but is not really describable as a card game. Everyone and everything is represented as cards, with the people and resources at your disposal in your hand. Each day is a 'round', at the start of every round...

3 helpful
17 hrs at review
Recommended

This game is like cultist simulator if it wasn't monotonous and deliberately too complicated.Although the game is somewhat grindy and hard to figure out, you can figure out the correct path to different endings after a few runs.It is a fun puzzle card game with an interesting premise and fun outcomes on your choices

3 helpful
15 hrs at review
Recommended

A trully gem. I just scratched the surface. At first it seems to be an extemely weird game, like opening the owija or necronomicon, but then you slowly realize that is a heavy story-driven CRPG with a lot of complex and engaging plots and mechanics that you need to discover before you can succeed. The first run is about surviving week after week, then you realize that you will need a solid plan (and there are plenty of it) to beat the game. It's like Darkest Dungeon and Vagrus - The Riven Realms having a kid. Amazing.

2 helpful
4 hrs at review
Recommended

I didn't understand the game at first, but after trying to understand and use my critical thinking skills, this game is sooo fun!! I love it!

2 helpful
122 hrs at review
Recommended

Absolutely incredible game. Now that the gallery shows all the cards, I've realised that at 122h played I've unlocked maybe 20% of the game at best. WHAT ARE THESE THINGSSSSSS for real though, there are a hundred incredible storylines in this and a hundred ways to play. Probably more! you'll never run out of ways to play. I do wish the English text used only a single /n for line breaks instead of /n/n though, I feel like there's a lot of whitespace when the story gets long.

2 helpful
70 hrs at review
Recommended

Late Abbassid Trolley Problem Game The evil game that the wicked emperor makes you play is both a horrible state to be in and unbinds your hands to do things you otherwise wouldn't have gotten away with, both officially and morally. Kind of like being heavily in debt. I liked this game enough to participate in creation of a wiki

1 helpful
60 hrs at review
Recommended

One of the best games I've played in awhile. if you are a fan of grimdark story driven games with some rougelike replay-ability thrown in you will find yourself putting dozens of hours into this game easily!

1 helpful

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System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: i5-3570K
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GTX 560
  • Storage: 3 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: i7 7700k
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GTX 1070
  • Storage: 5 GB available space

FAQ

How much does Sultan's Game cost?

Sultan's Game costs $24.99.

What are the system requirements for Sultan's Game?

Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: i5-3570K Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 560 Storage: 3 GB available space Recommended: Recommended: OS: Windows 10 Processor: i7 7700k Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1070 Storage: 5 GB available space

What platforms is Sultan's Game available on?

Sultan's Game is available on Windows PC, macOS.

Is Sultan's Game worth buying?

Sultan's Game has 90% positive reviews from 100 players. Metacritic score: 81/100.

When was Sultan's Game released?

Sultan's Game was released on Mar 30, 2025.

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