Игрок 2416·Не рекомендует·22 ч в игре

Despite absolutely loving Suzerain's story, world and atmosphere, it left such a bitter taste in my mouth by the end that I simply can't recommend it. The worldbuilding is fantastic. Suzerain has created an incredibly detailed 20th-century political world, full of interesting countries, socioeconomic problems, political conflicts and moral dilemmas. You are given an almost absurd amount of information, and after a while you genuinely feel like you are navigating a huge, complex political system. Except that, for the most part, this is an illusion. The game makes you feel like you are running a country, while in reality you are making narrative choices in a visual novel. And this is not simply because the game has predetermined consequences for your decisions. The deeper problem is that you don't actually get to make decisions on your own terms at all. You don't decide what you want to do and then figure out how to do it. You don't proactively set policies or pursue your own strategy. Instead, you wait for the game to decide that it is time for you to make a decision, and then you reactively choose between the options it presents to you. "This happened. What do you do?" <- That's essentially the gameplay loop. Your choices then affect a number of hidden or poorly explained variables, and several turns later you may discover that you have apparently ruined something without ever having had a clear understanding of why. And to be clear: this is not a complaint about the characters lying to you or giving you misleading information. Quite the opposite. Characters having their own agendas, hiding information, manipulating you or simply being wrong is one of the things that makes Suzerain's cast feel so complex and deeply written. I actually love that aspect of the game. The problem is that the game mechanics themselves are opaque and misleading. The game doesn't give you enough information to understand the systems you are actually interacting with, and then punishes you for not understanding rules it never properly communicated. That's not the same thing as being deceived by a character within the story. It feels less like the game is challenging you to see through its characters, and more like the game itself is cheating the player out of information they need in order to make meaningful decisions. I don't mind being lied to by the characters. I mind being misled by the game. The economy is the most painful example. There is a "budget" stat which you would naturally assume represents roughly how much money you have available. Only later do you discover that it actually represents your budget balance. There is also an "economic development/stability" type of stat which supposedly represents the state of the economy, but it can change in ways that the narrative often does absolutely nothing to explain. To be fair, the game does tell you that "dEbT iS bAd". What it doesn't tell you is that running even a relatively small deficit in its abstract scale called "budget" can apparently have catastrophic consequences. Throughout my playthrough, I genuinely felt like I was managing the economy properly. I consistently invested in economic development and kept receiving positive reports about how things were going. Then, suddenly, I discovered that having a budget of -3 on some abstract scale ranging from -20 to +30 was apparently enough to put me into a "debt spiral", which eventually led to an economic crisis. How the hell was I supposed to know that?!!! The game doesn't properly show you your revenues, your expenditures, or what these abstract numbers actually represent in real financial terms. The problem isn't that the game is difficult. **The problem is that, half the time, you don't even know what game you're playing.** And this is especially frustrating in a game about running a country. A president and their cabinet don't govern purely through personal stories and NPCs presenting them with problems. They work with budgets, economic data, reports and trends - Suzerain gives you almost none of that. Instead, it gives you an enormous amount of lore and information about its world, while withholding the information that would actually allow you to understand the systems determining the outcome of your decisions. The same thing happened with my popularity. At the end of my term, my ministers mostly gave me neutral or positive assessments, yet somehow my popularity had fallen to roughly a third of what it was at the beginning. And then came the ending... My story concluded with me being tortured and executed during a war, in a sequence that, to me, was written with incredibly weak logic and rushed storytelling. After spending twenty hours becoming invested in this world, its people and the role I was playing in it, the ending didn't merely disappoint me. It genuinely hurt. I felt humiliated and betrayed by the way the game chose to end my story. It felt like the game took all the excitement, love and dedication I had developed for it over 22 hours and threw it away with an ending that I found both poorly written and completely disconnected from the experience I had been having. And perhaps that's the most frustrating part... I loved this game. I loved its world, its political conflicts, its atmosphere, the feeling that I was making decisions about the fate of a huge, complicated country. Only to eventually realize that I wasn't actually running the country, but instead participating in a story that lies "pick your own adventure". It turned out to be a fantastic political visual novel, while what I wanted was a fantastic political management game. During my 22 hours of gameplay, I gained a memorable experience, but also feeling genuinely disappointed.

Игрок 1376·Рекомендует·7 ч в игре

6/10 幽默吞时长又牛大了，要是真一小时就能通关这游戏我也成神了😅 只能说见证区自己的galgame不是比喻，没想到通关一次才能关铁人模式的原因，通关后的总结图才能发现，这游戏的人物关系是原始人xy政治倾向划分，到头来就是站边攻略角色谁能绷住 🤣 而且剧情本身是由大量的分支和文本量撑起，多周目却根本绕不开那些毫无意义又不能跳过的何意味家庭关系文本 😀 这多周目体验堪称灾难，根本不管你做了什么就算公式化打出经济奇迹，只要在一堆无意义选项中选错一个站队选项就直接崩盘打回重选五分钟 😅 很难想象作为一个更新过内容DLC的游戏居然没解决最基础的存档和快进功能，否则轻松8分小众精品

Игрок 2745·Рекомендует·53 ч в игре

i went in as a person with hopes and ideas for a better future and left as the worst president in sordish history the people HATED me for giving them rights because it hurt the economy

Игрок 6302·Рекомендует·1009 ч в игре

ほかの方が日本語化が古いバージョンしかないとおっしゃっていますが、 最新バージョン（バージョン3.1.0ビルド１７５）に対応した新しい日本語化modがgithubで出たようです。 リンクはsteamの規約でここには貼れませんが、今からプレイする人も再びプレイしたい人も是非検索して使ってみてください。

Игрок 2952·Рекомендует·6 ч в игре

Do you want to be president in a post-Soviet Balkan-expy country? Then this game is for you. Fight with your wife, watch your vice president descend into alcoholism, and make excrutiating budgetary choices that will always make some of your ministers mad and somehow make your economy more unstable. Thanks to this game, I know for sure that being president is one of the worst jobs on earth. 10/10.

Игрок 2941·Рекомендует·96 ч в игре

Incredibly immersive political simulator, with an interesting story and insane replayability

Игрок 6248·Рекомендует·21 ч в игре

GOAT tier political narrative game with a multitude of interesting outcomes based on your actions, Torpor Games have completely knocked it out of the park with Suzerain and its also excellent DLC, which is an completely new campaign of the same high level. Strongest possible recommendation, Torpor Games have a rabid fan in me and I will be keenly awaiting their next projects.

Игрок 6074·Рекомендует·41 ч в игре

说真的，好游戏，玩得可上头了。 既体验了总体，也体验了国王，虽然都不如我想象中的那么“肆意妄为”，但依然是感受到了权力的份量。 关于中文汉化，在现在这个年代我只想说感谢AI，下个AI，把游戏丢给他汉化，十分钟不用就可以爽玩了。