Game of Sultans

Review by eFreeware

Game of Sultans is a free role-playing game from DreamPlus Games, set in what the developer calls the golden age of the Ottoman Empire. You take the throne as Sultan or Sultanah and run the court from there, mixing romance, army building and a steady stream of events. It has been on Google Play since July 2018 and has passed ten million installs, with a 4.3 average across roughly 600,000 ratings.

The main reason to consider it is the breadth of what sits under that one roof. A single session can move between courting a companion, promoting a vizier, checking on an heir and entering a timed event, and the game keeps adding occasions to come back through weekly and monthly rotations. If you like the idea of a court to run rather than a battle to win, that combination is the draw.

Running a court, one screen at a time

The premise is that you are in charge of an empire, and most of what you do feeds back into that. You recruit elite warriors and empower viziers, and the developer frames that army as the thing that lets your empire grow day by day. Companions travel in from across the world to meet you, and you pick one as a soulmate to build a love story around. Heirs and pets are raised in the name of the Imperium, with the pets shown growing over time.

Presentation is part of the appeal rather than an afterthought. You choose your own character image, then decorate the profile with avatars and frames, so the ruler you present to other players is one you assembled. Treasures are collected along the way as another running pursuit, and the outfits and looks are treated as a way of making an entrance.

What ties these threads together is the daily rhythm. Daily quests award VIP points, which the developer presents as the route to leveling your game without spending. Whether that loop holds your attention depends on how much you enjoy juggling several slow-burning systems at once, since the court advances through many small steps rather than one dramatic push.

Minigames, unions and a crowded calendar

Events carry a lot of the weight here. The developer runs minigames meant to raise your standing in the court, with events running weekly and monthly on top. The named lineup includes Dungeon, Fortune's Favor, Horse Race, Dagger Heroes and Palace Delight, and the pitch is that each day offers another chance to win something.

Two newer additions show the direction the calendar is heading. Silk Road Conquest has you collecting gunpowder, seizing key cities along the Silk Road and competing for control of that trade, while Harem Rivalry sets factions against each other for rule over the harem. Both fit the same pattern: a themed activity with its own objectives and its own reason to log in.

Unions are the social side. Players from around the world can join yours, and the game frames the fighting as a shared pursuit of honor and glory. That makes the game as much about coordinating with a group as about your own court, and it gives the event schedule a second audience beyond your personal progress.

What the free download includes

Game of Sultans costs nothing to download and carries a Teen rating. It does show ads, and it does offer in-app purchases. The developer's own position is that daily quests and VIP points let you level up without buying anything, describing the game as completely free to play. Both things can be true at once: there is a free route through the daily loop, and there is also a store attached to the game.

I would treat that combination as the main thing to weigh before starting. Ads and in-app purchases are part of the package. The practical question is whether the daily quest path feels generous enough for how you like to play, and that is a judgment each player makes for themselves.

The players this court was built for

This looks best suited to people who enjoy collection and routine in equal measure. If you like choosing a soulmate from a cast of arriving companions, dressing up a profile with avatars and frames, and watching pets and heirs develop across weeks, the game gives you plenty of small decisions to make. The Ottoman court setting is specific enough to feel like somewhere rather than nowhere.

It should also land well with players who want a schedule. Weekly and monthly events, daily quests and minigames give a structure to returning, and a union adds other people to that structure. Someone who wants to dip in occasionally and see immediate results may find the pace slower than they like, because the systems here reward showing up often rather than playing long.

The romance angle is worth taking at face value. Companions are a central pillar rather than a side feature, so if the idea of courting and writing a love story inside an empire sim appeals to you, that thread runs through the whole experience.

A throne worth taking for the right ruler

Game of Sultans is a broad, free-to-play court sim with a lot of moving parts and a calendar that keeps producing reasons to return. The viziers, companions, heirs, pets, treasures and unions give it more surface area than most role-playing games on mobile, and the event rotation keeps that surface area in use. The trade-off is that ads and in-app purchases sit alongside the free daily path.

My recommendation is for players who want a long-running game with a social layer and a steady drip of events, and who do not mind a store being part of the furniture. If you are drawn to the Ottoman setting, the idea of ruling as Sultan or Sultanah, and the mix of romance and army building, this is a reasonable place to spend your evenings. If you want something you can finish, the structure here is built to continue rather than conclude.

What's new in version 7.801

1. New event: Silk Road Conquest. Collect Gunpowder, occupy key cities along the Silk Road, and claim dominance over Silk Road trade! 2. New event: Harem Rivalry. Join Harem Rivalry and vie to rule all factions!