Suzerain (video game)
Suzerain is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Torpor Games and published by Fellow Traveller. It was released for Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Nintendo Switch on 4 December 2020. Plot. "Suzerain" follows the fictitious country of Sordland, which emerged from a civil war and a twenty-year dictatorship, and Anton Rayne, who is elected as its new President in 1954, must decide how to lead the country in his first term and work to fix the various National problems and navigate an increasingly tense geopolitical world to earn a second term. The player must make  various choices at critical moments or during meetings, and prevent the nation from disintegrating or being invaded by one of the local powers on the continent of Merkopa. 30 years before his entry into the Presidency of Sordland, a coup d'etat brought down the Monarchy of the nation, only to have another coup happen and the democratic institutions themselves be destroyed. A civil war followed, with the Colonel Soll winning out, he then re-established democracy in Sordland. around 20 years after the Colonel re-established democracy in Sordland, another man, Ewald Alphonso, took control of his party, eventually making  the economy collapse. Rayne gets elected into the Presidency of Sordland, where the game starts. Reception. Suzerain was awarded the Deutscher Computerspielpreis "Bestes Expertenspiel" (Best Expert Game), as well as the 2021 Games for Change People's Choice Award and was recognized as a Most Innovative Nominee. Unfold Games Awards also awarded the game with a honorable mention.