Suzerain

Nice design and a really fascinating game play, which even got me emotionally involved ... until I got increasingly frustrated by the lack of possibilities to actually take initiatives myself. You can only respond to all the crises that arise and yes, decisions and statements decide later developments, but without the possibility of actively leading a course of your own will. Especially towards the end of the game, it also seems that there is a fairly large degree of determinism in the events that occur. Too bad. I would be prepared to pay a significant price for a further development of Suzerain with inspiration from eg. the many forward-looking decision-making mechanisms in Democracy 3 ... with the possibility of continuing Suzerain after your first term ... if reelected...

Very memorable, I’ll never forget this game

One of my top ten games for mobile

This is a great turn by turn style game with a huge amount to offer. It’s not perfect but its small flaws are also very charming in their own.

I am horrible at the game and I keep failing at beating rumburg but I love it

Been playing this game for a while, I bought the full game and it was super cheap. I love this game because there’s so many outcomes and possibilities you can support Soll or become a reformist. Overall great game hope they come out with another for IOS so I can play.

It’s an interesting game that gives a firsthand look at how complicated it is to run a country, especially one this broken. At first, I was delighted with the decision making and chess style politics, but the ending is usually the same and straight out ridiculous. Unless you’re completely militaristic and kissing up to your bald general, you’re going to get coup by the military. I fixed the economy, kept us out of war, made strong alliances and improved my citizens’ way of life, all for what? I expected this result if I was a dictator and filled my pockets with money, but you shouldn’t get such a horrible ending for improving the nation and giving the people what they truly need. Everything is already stacked against you without the trash ending being so common. It doesn’t help that skipping the dialogue isn’t an option, good luck going back and spending 50+ hours just to choose a different ending.

While the game is good on desktop, I can’t recommend it on mobile. The game has a bug with sound settings. If you disable music/sfx, the game will revert to enabled during progression of the game. A minor annoyance is the lack of save/load functionality. There is no way that I’ve seen to even revert to a checkpoint. In version 2.0+, this is there and is helpful. There is more content and some good rebalancing in v2.0+, so it’s disappointing to not be in the mobile version. For me, the sound setting bug is the worst. I would like to listen to my own music without the game sfx and music. Until this bug is fixed, I can’t recommend this game. I do support the developers and chose not to request a refund ( I paid for the full game). Instead I hope they see this feedback and hopefully fix the sound bug.

I think the replayability of this game could be much improved by implementing saves. I would like to be able to go back and change decisions I made without having to replay the whole thing from the beginning which gets tedious after while.

I thoroughly enjoyed playing this. It seems to take a very even-handed approach to different political ideologies. However, as much as I did to help fix the economy, the country still entered a depression and there was a lot of in-fighting. It worries me that this game may be more on-rails than it seems.