This has to be the most poorly designed game I have ever played. All the important decisions that have to be made and it only has auto saving. I have seen nothing but complaints about this game and every mistake means playing the game over again for hours. Don't waste your time on this bullshit game.
One of the best strategy games of the last year. The best of its kind. The kind that is hard to define: Strategy and Political Sim, with Rich Story and Choices Matter.
Yeah this is a terrible game. Not being able to save and only having the option to auto save completely ruins this game. It means if you make the wrong decision all your progress was lost and you have to play the 2 hour game all over from the beginning. Waste of time.
Yeah, that is genuinely a bad design decision, specially considering how easy it is to cheat. Just open the savefile and edit values, or in your case, copy the savefile to make a backup. Annoying, but it can save you headaches.
The game is full of trap and trust no one, one wrong(Bill) move you end up in coup prison or kill at later, game auto save at every move can only load last save so think before sign anything or ready to wast all process
I saw this game on turk's stream, and immediately went to pirate - and I rarely have such an urge to play a game myself. But I can reenact my NazBol fantasy here (hopefully)! And the main screen is a beautiful physical map? With a legend? I can only get so erect!
Yes, you can be a National-Communist if you so wish. Just ally with the National Patriotic Front and pursue right-wing social policies while enforcing left-wing economic policies.
You know, they are really improving this game, adding new features and content, fixing bugs, tweaking things... It seems like despite all flaws it really is a labor of love. I did enjoy playing it for what it is worth - but I do recommend save editting, it makes the game much more dependent on choices and less on 'did I do it right or do I have to restart?'.
Yeah this game is just a visual novel setup to make you think that you can do what you want. But if you don't follow the script setup for you you will never change the Constitution and get it past the Supreme Court. I have played it several times to only realize the game is a complete waste of time.
I didn't need to balance it at all. I got term limits, got rid of the courts legislative power, got rid of the "Member of Honor" status entirely, reduced the election threshold to 8%, and limited the presidents veto power. I almost completely democratized the constitution without making any compromises or bribes.
[Spoiler] Same, got the constitution democratized and I got Soll imprisoned and the Members of Honor revoked, finally. But I went further and increased "Decree Power" and implemented de-Sollination reforms removing Soll's statues, influence and propaganda. I removed the judiciary's ability to interfere with the legislative, improved the economy from the recession to the point where we became a superpower. Increased health, economic and educational outcomes, unemployment disappeared, the GDP quadrupled, the debt was HALVED. Also, women were afforded more rights than any other time in Sordland history... ...But I also reduced threshold to 3%. Which killed my party in the next election, so I became a one-term president... I pretty much brought them out of the Dark Ages and improved their lives. And they do this to me? 1/10 -- Fuck Sordland.
The game is still being balanced and tweaked. It is good that it was made, however it's flaws are are numerous - and so are it's bugs at times. I see that you went the reformist path - did you do so via forming a coalition? If so, bear in mind the leader of the reformist party is an opportunist and will try to steal your triumph and say it was his own. If in doubt, do not work with him - do the realpolitik path, bribe the moderate leader in your party, try to gain support elsewhere. Personally I went for a mixed economy, high executive power approach.
Your choices actually do matter a lot from what I've seen. You can miss entire story lines such as investigations into conspiracies by taking different choices
Yes. What I ment was more the overall outcome of the game. With the choices I've made I bascically went downhill, despite them being viable options to lead a country. So I felt dragged along the game's idea of what the best options would be. Example: (SPOILER!) Building the first highway, choosing a state company. Led to delays and disappointment, despite it being most benificial for the poor slobs of that district and being an election promise fulfilled regarding creating a planned economy.
I know what you mean - games like this should promote freedom and allow to experiment, however given the text-novel nature of the game it is rather limiting and often you run into unnecessary roadblocks. My advice? Cheat. Edit the savefile. Then enjoy as you still have to deal with many roadblocks, however at least you will not have to deal with annoying stat-based ones. The epilogue is not worth it, however, but I enjoyed the game a bit. I just wish there was more to it - some aspects seem quite nuanced and well done, there is a lot of lore, but other feels really tacked on.
Somehow the game freezes/stucks in Chapter 4 right after the Meeting because of the downed jet. You just cant proceed with anything. Anyone got an idea why?
I can confirm that the updated version fixes it for me. Just loaded the backup played it through with the same choices and now you get new Meetings and the story continues
You could go to C:\Users\User\AppData\LocalLow\TorporGames\Suzerain\Suzerain (simply press Win+R to go to appdata) move the savegame.suze file to a backup folder and rename the savegame_backsup.suze file to savegame.suze which will make you lose a bit of progress without having to replay the entire game
This game could be considered a Donald Trump simulator. If you act like the Dictator like Donald Trump did you will be punished for it and put to death like Donald Trump needs to be.
So this is basically like those games where you are a magical princess and have to train in different stuff to have a chance for the correct options to appear so you don't get killed and/or the country survives as well?
Nah it's like how do you make things like you want with current situation you've made before become president of nation in turmoil, haunted by ideology of superpowers and struggling economy.
More or less but instead of a princess, you must raise Freddy Mercury However, I don't think there is a path for wincest (the princess game has a wincest path).
You're basically the President of a politically unstable nation. There's no magic or princess here(they abolished the monarchy in the game, ironically enough). Every decision is about a realistic as one can be with a pretty light-weight game. If you enact free market reforms, you actually make a lot of money. If you enact welfare, citizens will benefit greatly but the budget and economy might not look so good. You can go full laissez-faire or full commie planned economy. Or mixed like a normie. It's crucial that you pick a side from early on to form the backbone of your support. You can either go with the military-industrial complex, big business or democratic socialists. There's also the nationalists but the worst president in the country's history was a nationalist so you'll have a harder(but not impossible) time. A bunch of issues also come up like women's rights, racism, religious freedom, etc. You can also take part (or refuse to take part) in international politics, allying with either the capitalist or communist alliance. Everything from trade deals to territorial disputes to nuclear crises. Oh and actual hardcore fascism is in the game too although you can only ally with them but that's already pretty intense.
(like everybody else says, especially because of the time needed to start a new game... Too much of a hassle...)
As a story-driven VISUAL NOVEL game with some multiple choices, it's good the first time, but definitely, this is no deep strategy game.
Something like https://igg-games.com/europa-universalis-iv-cradle-civilization-free-828228948-download.html or https://igg-games.com/crusader-338048308-kings-iii-free-download.html is on another level, if you really want to meddle with politics.
Also, I recommend https://igg-games.com/old-world-free-download.html.
But I do like that Suzerain takes place in a more recent familiar setting.
That's a pass for me.
But it's true, it's unfortunately playable once, maybe twice.
The best of its kind. The kind that is hard to define:
Strategy and Political Sim, with Rich Story and Choices Matter.
An economic, political and decision-making game with history in the background.
I really wasn't expecting.
Great Game.
Gem.
I did enjoy playing it for what it is worth - but I do recommend save editting, it makes the game much more dependent on choices and less on 'did I do it right or do I have to restart?'.
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...But I also reduced threshold to 3%. Which killed my party in the next election, so I became a one-term president... I pretty much brought them out of the Dark Ages and improved their lives. And they do this to me?
1/10 -- Fuck Sordland.
I see that you went the reformist path - did you do so via forming a coalition? If so, bear in mind the leader of the reformist party is an opportunist and will try to steal your triumph and say it was his own. If in doubt, do not work with him - do the realpolitik path, bribe the moderate leader in your party, try to gain support elsewhere.
Personally I went for a mixed economy, high executive power approach.
was ok.
With the choices I've made I bascically went downhill, despite them being viable options to lead a country. So I felt dragged along the game's idea of what the best options would be.
Example: (SPOILER!) Building the first highway, choosing a state company. Led to delays and disappointment, despite it being most benificial for the poor slobs of that district and being an election promise fulfilled regarding creating a planned economy.
My advice? Cheat. Edit the savefile. Then enjoy as you still have to deal with many roadblocks, however at least you will not have to deal with annoying stat-based ones.
The epilogue is not worth it, however, but I enjoyed the game a bit. I just wish there was more to it - some aspects seem quite nuanced and well done, there is a lot of lore, but other feels really tacked on.
Anyone got an idea why?
(simply press Win+R to go to appdata)
move the savegame.suze file to a backup folder and rename the savegame_backsup.suze file to savegame.suze which will make you lose a bit of progress without having to replay the entire game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsSaD2NFCsE
However, I don't think there is a path for wincest (the princess game has a wincest path).
Every decision is about a realistic as one can be with a pretty light-weight game. If you enact free market reforms, you actually make a lot of money. If you enact welfare, citizens will benefit greatly but the budget and economy might not look so good. You can go full laissez-faire or full commie planned economy. Or mixed like a normie.
It's crucial that you pick a side from early on to form the backbone of your support. You can either go with the military-industrial complex, big business or democratic socialists. There's also the nationalists but the worst president in the country's history was a nationalist so you'll have a harder(but not impossible) time.
A bunch of issues also come up like women's rights, racism, religious freedom, etc.
You can also take part (or refuse to take part) in international politics, allying with either the capitalist or communist alliance. Everything from trade deals to territorial disputes to nuclear crises. Oh and actual hardcore fascism is in the game too although you can only ally with them but that's already pretty intense.