Torpor Games & Fellow Traveller Unveil Suzerain 2.0 "Amendment" Update: An Enhanced Gameplay Experience

Berlin, 31.07.2023 - Unveiling the 2.0 “Amendment” update, Suzerain is now reborn! Now enriched with fresh dialogues, impactful choices, and tangible consequences. Bask in the enhanced visuals, interactive world map, and intuitive UI designed to captivate new and seasoned players alike. This comprehensive overhaul refines the game narrative, improves quality, and elevates the audiovisual experience, making every moment in Suzerain more memorable.

 

The key additions in the 2.0 "Amendment" update are:

  • Overhauled UI & UX

  • Expanded universe and map

  • New storylines

  • Collectible items

  • Save/load system

  • Controller support

  • Torpor mode

  • 300+ new reports/articles

  • New sounds effects

  • Updated music

  • New country tokens

"We are thrilled to announce the Suzerain 2.0 "Amendment" update release," says Ata Sergey Nowak, Managing Director, and Co-founder of Torpor Games. "It is a major overhaul that improves every game aspect with new features, content, and audiovisual enhancements. The update also includes many bug fixes, further balancing, writing improvements, and more."

The Suzerain 2.0 "Amendment" update is the culmination of a year-long endeavor by the Torpor Games team to refine and expand upon the original game and is the first release in a long-term plan for expanding and supporting the game, including more free updates and a series of premium DLC campaigns, the first of which - Suzerain: Kingdom of Rizia - will launch in Q4 this year. The update also marks the start of a new arrangement with the game's publisher, Fellow Traveller, with Torpor Games taking up co-publishing duties, expanding its experience and growing its skills and capabilities.

 

The update will debut with a limited-time discount of 70 percent off the game's current price of $14.99, which will run until the 13th of August. On the 14th of August, the game's price will increase to $19.99 to reflect the added value and enhancements in this update and support the continued development of further free updates. This makes the initial release period optimal for players to purchase and secure their copy at the most favorable price point!


About Suzerain

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, the need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Suzerain has over 8k reviews on Steam, 93% of which are positive, and has received critical acclaim from publications such as Der SpiegelVICERock Paper ShotgunPC Gamer, and CNN Brazil, as well as winning several awards including the Best Expert Game at the German Game Awards 2021, and the People’s Choice Award at the 2021 Games For Change Awards, the Games Award at the 2024 Berlin Tech Awards, Best Story at the 2024 German Developer Awards and were selected to part of the 2024 Google Indie Games Accelerator program.

About Torpor Games

Torpor Games is an indie video game company based in Berlin, focused on creating thought-provoking entertainment.

After releasing the Suzerain 2.0 "Amendment" update earlier this year, the Berlin-based team of 12 is looking forward to co-publishing the Kingdom of Rizia premium DLC on PC with publisher Fellow Traveller. Torpor Games is working on expanding the fictional universe with more politically engaging narrative experiences.

Torpor Games is working on a prequel called, The Conformist, a narrative roleplaying game set in the 1930s in which the player guides Orwin - a propagandist working for the government of Sordland - in an attempt to discover his path in the capital.

Based on the Suzerain universe, players step into the city of Holsord, discovering the country of Sordland and its people caught in the turbulence of a newly established military government under President Tarquin Soll. Players must juggle their propagandist obligations to their superiors, their ambitions, and their families whilst avoiding the scrutiny of the state – or aiding the resistance against them.

About Fellow Traveller

Fellow Traveller is an indie game publishing label exploring the possibility space of what narrative games can be. Since our founding in 2012, we have sought out and partnered with pioneering game developers working on unusual games with narrative at their core.

You may know Fellow Traveller from the tabletop-inspired RPG set in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism (Citizen Sleeper), the polar exploration survival story riddled with difficult decisions (The Pale Beyond), the noir adventure set before, during, and after the Big Bang (Genesis Noir),  or the murder mystery with a cast of otherworldly suspects (Paradise Killer).

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