Sultan's Game
BANGER · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 28.4h
- Value
- $0.88/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GTX 560, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $19.99. That was November 2025. 14 discounts in the 1 year on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Reigns ($2.99, scores 76) and Curious Expedition 2 ($19.99, scores 74), are both worse buys on this math.
$30.10 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $24.99.
83 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 28.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 851 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 28.4 hours; clearing it takes 88, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
82% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 28.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
7,726 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
If you're a fan of Cultist Sim, Book of Hours or the Strange "Shop" series, you'll like this game too. If you find the mentioned games tedious or don't like games with little to no hand-holding, then you would not find this fun. Still 12 hours in and I have yet to finish my first run (Albeit on Easy). So plenty of chance to replay for different choices/endings, higher difficulties or fate combos. Really enjoying the...
"Beat" the game for the first time (By managing to destroy all the cards and survive) so I figured I would give it my review. The gameplay loop is pretty simplistic but addictive if you allow yourself to get immersed in checking out all the different consequences what each card will do in a given scenario. If you like "card based resource management" games this will definitely scratch that itch. After dying early so...
Sultan's Game got me really hooked to sat my Cultist Simulator itch, but this one had much much more depraved tones. I picked this up on a whim after I saw it on my wishlist with a discount, and holy, I did not regret spending one bit. This game's main strength is definitely its glorious artworks and world building. It is maybe because I am an artist myself that I appreciate the graphics and how they set the UI a...
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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Sultan's Game scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3117820/sultan-s-gameThe 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 15, price as of Sep 23.
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