Suzerain (video game)
2020 video game
Suzerain is a text-based government simulation visual novel developed by Berlin-based studio Torpor Games and published by Fellow Traveller. It was first released for Windows and macOS in 2020, with ports for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series, iOS, Nintendo Switch and Android released between 2021 and 2025. The game, set in the 1950s, puts the player in the role of the president of the fictitious country of Sordland.
An expansion for the game with a different setting in the same fictional universe, Suzerain: Kingdom of Rizia, was released in 2024. In July of 2026, two more expansions were announced for the game, Suzerain: Socialist Republic of Galmland, and Suzerain Stories: The Neutral Lens. Two standalone spin-off games are also in development; The Conformist and Wars of Suzerain.
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Suzerain
The original Suzerain story places the player in the role of Anton Rayne, the newly elected president of the fictitious Republic of Sordland. While nominally democratic, the nation is emerging from twenty years of authoritarianism under the regime of former president Colonel Tarquin Soll, as well as a severe economic recession begun under Rayne's predecessor, Ewald Alphonso. As president and leader of the governing United Sordland Party (USP), the player must decide how to lead the country, navigating various structural problems and crises affecting the country amid increasing global tensions, in order to secure their re-election. The plot is largely limited to a single term of office, but the player's decisions determine the future of Rayne and Sordland alike.
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