Sultan’s Game Launches Exciting New Update and DLCs, Expanding Its Dark, Card-Based Narrative

Experience the Latest Content in Sultan’s Game

The critically acclaimed, narrative-driven card RPG Sultan’s Game has just received a major update along with two new downloadable content (DLC) packs. Fans can now enjoy fresh storylines, an exclusive soundtrack, additional cards, and a limited-time 15% discount on the base game as part of the ongoing Steam Summer Sale.

Discover the Dark World of Sultan’s Game

If you’re unfamiliar with Sultan’s Game, it plunges players into a twisted story set in a realm ruled by a decadent sultan. Having indulged in every vice imaginable, the sultan grows bored and seeks new entertainment—enter a mysterious sorceress who introduces a deadly card game. This game isn’t just entertainment; it’s a brutal test of morality and power, where each round involves defeating a Sultan Card by playing the right combination of cards representing real people.

The Card System: Types and Tiers

Cards in Sultan’s Game come in four distinct types, each with four levels of increasing value: stone, bronze, silver, and gold. The four card types are:

Carnality — satisfied through nights of passion
Bloodshed — requiring sacrifices of living subjects
Conquest — involving capturing strategic locations
Extravagance — achieved with wealth and treasures

To successfully defeat a Sultan Card, players must use a card of equal or higher tier. For example, to eliminate a silver Bloodshed card, a gold or silver character card is necessary.

Morality and Strategy in a Cruel Game

While the gameplay revolves around cards, in the game’s universe, these cards symbolize real individuals, making every sacrifice a moral dilemma. As a player, you don’t assume the role of the sultan but rather a courtier who dares to challenge his cruelty. Your punishment? You are tasked with managing the game and making life-or-death decisions—failure results in your execution.

Gameplay Mechanics and Decision-Making

Each round begins with drawing a new Sultan Card, and you have seven days to devise a plan for its destruction. Daily activities provide opportunities to send cards on specific missions, requiring strategic planning and resource management. Some activities involve dice rolls, adding an element of chance and unpredictability.

At the end of each day, text-driven scenes unfold, revealing the outcomes of your choices, rewards in the form of gold coins or information cards, and new opportunities. As the game progresses, the variety of events and consequences expands, deeply immersing you in a morally complex world.

The Impact of Your Choices

Your decisions shape the narrative’s direction, with the potential for long-lasting consequences that might not be immediately apparent. Choices made early on—whether to stay loyal, betray, or manipulate—can branch into multiple storylines, leading to dramatically different endings.

Morality and Character Development

The game begins with your customization of the protagonist’s background and moral outlook—are you a compassionate leader or a ruthless tyrant? These initial choices influence your starting deck and stats, but moral dilemmas only intensify as you advance. Dark and extreme options exist, forcing you to confront questions like: “Who am I willing to kill?” and “What makes one life more valuable than another?”

Expect moments of excitement, fear, and even disgust as you navigate through a narrative that challenges your ethical boundaries. A single playthrough takes around 10 hours, but exploring all possible endings can extend gameplay to over 150 hours, offering numerous paths and secrets to uncover.

New Content and Features in the Latest Update

The recent update has refined the game’s extensive script, adding new Steam badges, community items, and 10 community-sourced cards, further enriching the experience. The highlight is the release of two new DLCs:

Soundtrack and Prequel Story

Soundtrack — Featuring 15 original tracks by Zeta and international artists, blending Uyghur Muqam, Guzheng melodies, and Western orchestration to evoke the game’s cross-cultural atmosphere.
Prequel DLC — A digital novella titled A Game for the Sultan, written by the game’s lead writer. This standalone story explores the origins of the Sultan Cards and how they corrupted the sultan’s court, offering fans deeper insight into the game’s lore.

Availability and Reception

Sultan’s Game and its DLCs are currently exclusive to PC and available for purchase on Steam. The game was an instant hit, selling over 600,000 units within its first month and nearing 1 million copies during the ongoing Summer Sale. It boasts a strong positive reception on Steam, with over 16,000 reviews classified as “very positive” and 1,600 recent reviews indicating an overwhelmingly favorable response.

For updates and community engagement, players are encouraged to follow the developer’s official channels.

Alex "Pixel" Petrov

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