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This political simulation visual novel, released in 2020, puts players in the role of a president navigating a nation's complex political landscape. Developed and published by Torpor Games, Suzerain has garnered 11,368 Steam reviews with a 93% positive rating, indicating strong player reception. The choose-your-own-adventure gameplay emphasizes impactful decision-making.
Overview
Suzerain is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Torpor Games and published by Torpor Games. On Steam it has gathered 11,614 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Torpor Games with publisher Torpor Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 592,000 to 1.4 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Suzerain can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
11,614
Positive
92%
Steam appid
1207650
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0592K to 1.4M
units (median: 987K)
≈ $6.8M to $15.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Suzerain at roughly 592,000 to 1.4 million copies, with a median around 987,000, derived from its 11,614 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $11.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
50 observed days · window low $5.99Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Suzerain sold?
- indielist estimates Suzerain has sold between 592,314 and 1,382,066 units (median 987,190), derived from its 11,614 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Suzerain?
- Suzerain was developed by Torpor Games and published by Torpor Games.
- Who published Suzerain?
- Suzerain was published by Torpor Games, developed by Torpor Games. See Torpor Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Suzerain released?
- Suzerain was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Suzerain have on Steam?
- Suzerain has 11,614 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Suzerain worth playing?
- Steam players rate Suzerain 92% positive across 11,614 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Suzerain can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Not For Broadcast, Roadwarden, Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut, Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Torpor Games's other releases and Torpor Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Suzerain sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Suzerain page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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- N
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Shared tags: RPG, Text-Based, Adventure
- S
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
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Shared tags: Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure
- O
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- S
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- C
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