Suzerain
Worth it · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.13.
- Length
- 11.6h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 900 series, AMD Radeon RX 400 series or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
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The value story
May 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. 61 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $10.13, a level the record has reached 50 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beholder 2 ($2.69, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Not For Broadcast ($24.99, scores 67).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 11 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it. On an 11.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,736 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 418 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 11.6 hours. Doing everything runs 37, 3.2 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
91% start to 1% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 11.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
258 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
An absolutely stunning political game! There are myriad different paths to take and every one has a different ending! There is nothing comparable to this, and I can also wholeheartedly endorse the DLC.
Dramatic, heavy and very expansive. It's an absolutely fantastic game if you have an interest in the question of what it'd be like to rule. However, it's very thinking heavy with tons of information that you need to consider. Hard to get into at first, but very rewarding.
I spent the first hour of this game thinking "Oh, this is way to dense. I don't think it's for me." I'm a decent way's in and I'm already excited for my second play through. Every decision has a noticeable affect on the country, whether its immediate or delayed. The storytelling is done incredibly well, and all the characters have depth. Love this game.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Suzerain scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1207650/suzerainThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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