Card-Based RPG Sultan’s Game Releases New Update and DLCs

The card-based, narrative-driven RPG Sultan’s Game conscionable dropped its latest update alongside caller DLC. There’s caller communicative content, a downloadable soundtrack, caller cards, and the basal crippled is connected merchantability for 15% arsenic portion of the Steam Summer Sale close now.

For those who aren’t acquainted with Sultan’s Game, the communicative begins with a tyrannical sultan who has experienced each vice and pleasance beingness has to offer, and he’s grown bored. But past a mysterious sorceress arrives with a paper crippled meant lone for the realm’s astir almighty people. Each circular of the crippled assigns you a Sultan Card and tasks you with destroying it, but each paper has antithetic requirements to decision it.

Cards travel successful 4 antithetic types with 4 antithetic tiers wrong those types. The 4 paper types are Carnality, Bloodshed, Conquest, and Extravagance. You sate Carnality cards with nights of passion, provender the hunger of Bloodshed cards with surviving sacrifices, fulfill Conquest cards by capturing locations, and fulfill Extravagance cards with wealthiness and treasure.

Each paper besides comes successful 1 of 4 tiers of expanding value: stone, bronze, silver, and gold. To decision a Sultan Card, you indispensable usage a paper of adjacent oregon higher value. So, for instance, if you request to destruct a metallic Bloodshed card, past you indispensable termination a quality paper that’s either metallic oregon gold.

While the crippled is played with cards, in-world those cards correspond existent people, truthful sacrificing cards means sidesplitting existent subjects. As you mightiness expect, this is conscionable the benignant of crippled a tyrannical ruler would love. But you don’t play arsenic the sultan — astatine least, not aft the tutorial. You are 1 of his courtiers who had the courageousness to telephone retired the crippled for its cruelty and depravity. Your punishment? The sultan puts you successful complaint of playing the crippled and having to marque life-or-death decisions to decision each Sultan Card. If you fail, he’ll execute you.

The opening of each circular volition spot you gully a caller Sultan Card, and you’ll person 7 days to fig retired however to destruct it. There are activities disposable each day, and you tin take which activities to nonstop cards successful your platform to do. But you’ll request to beryllium strategical astir which activities you bash each time and which cards you delegate to them. Seven days tin spell by quickly, and determination are constricted resources astatine your disposal.

Some of those activities necessitate dice rolls to find if your chosen cards are successful. When you extremity the day, text-based scenes volition play retired based connected who did what, whether they were successful, and your rewards. The superior rewards are golden coins (which tin beryllium utilized to summation entree to different activities) oregon accusation cards (which tin beryllium utilized for a assortment of things), but arsenic the crippled progresses, much events get added with much varied results.

Ultimately, the communicative volition beryllium shaped by however you determine to attack each task and however motivation oregon immoral you take to be. Will you willingly spell on with the sultan oregon secretly crippled down his back? Will you enactment loyal to your woman oregon walk your escaped clip astatine the section brothel? How volition you dainty the strangers that transverse your path?

No substance what decisions you make, butterfly effects volition travel successful their wake, immoderate of which won’t amusement themselves until agelong aft you’ve made the archetypal choice. Some decisions mightiness look innocuous astatine first, but the communicative branches they unfastened tin proceed branching from determination and extremity up with wildly antithetic outcomes.

Many of these decisions volition trial your morality. That starts arsenic soon arsenic the crippled begins, erstwhile you take the inheritance of your main quality and his wife. Are you benignant and charming oregon beardown and intimidating? Are you a enslaved proprietor (this is simply a sultan’s court, aft all) oregon a much enlightened person of the nobility? Your starting platform and stats volition beryllium determined by the choices you marque during this setup, but the motivation decisions lone get much analyzable from there.

We won’t springiness immoderate spoilers here, but we volition accidental that determination are immoderate genuinely acheronian and utmost choices you tin make, and they tin dramatically change the people of the communicative and the things you acquisition successful your playthrough. You’ll person to grapple with questions like, “Who americium I consenting to kill?” and “What makes 1 person’s beingness much invaluable than another?” Some moments mightiness elicit excitement, others fear, and others possibly adjacent disgust. A azygous playthrough takes astir 10 hours, but seeing each ending tin easy tally you to 150+ hours, truthful determination are tons of antithetic paths to take.

The communicative has an extended script, and the latest update refined that script. It besides added caller Steam badges, assemblage items, and 10 caller cards crowdsourced from the assemblage (pictured below). But the biggest caller additions travel successful the signifier of 2 DLCs: a downloadable soundtrack and prequel story.

The OST features 15 archetypal tracks by Zeta and planetary artists, and it’s a fusion of Uyghur Muqam, guzheng, and Western orchestration that’s meant to correspond the cross-cultural ambiance of the game.

The prequel DLC is simply a integer novella called A Game for the Sultan, which volition fto fans work the archetypal communicative that inspired improvement of the game. Written by the game’s pb writer, it takes spot successful the sultan’s court, tells a standalone story, and delves into the root of the dreaded Sultan Cards and however they archetypal corrupted a sultan’s court.

Sultan’s Game and its DLCs are presently exclusive to PC and are disposable present connected Steam. The basal crippled sold much than 600,000 units wrong its archetypal period of merchandise and is present approaching 1 cardinal income during the Steam Summer Sale. It’s besides reviewed good connected Steam, presently sitting astatine “very positive” with much than 16,000 reviews and “overwhelmingly positive” with 1,600 caller reviews. You tin enactment up to day connected the latest info by pursuing developer Double Cross Studio connected Twitter.