A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.
Explore an open world in this Victorian steampunk cRPG. Choose from three playable characters with branching stories that intertwine. Investigate, interact, and take action to leave your mark on the world and its inhabitants. No random stat points here, use your skills to level them up, and trust your fate to our tarot card chance system.
So, how will you solve your problems? Combat, persuasion, magic, explosives? The choice is yours and all your cards are on the table; but be careful, the docklands aren’t for the faint of heart.
Tarot Card Chance System – Leave your dice at home as you interact with a variety of characters. NPC’s react to your gender, race, appearance, and choice of dialogue, so you’d better look and act the part if you want the “right” results. But not everything is certain, luck plays a role and it’s all in the cards with our tarot card chance system.
Skill and Etiquette System - The skills you use will improve your ability, while ignoring others will cause them to stagnate. Master the skills you choose and learn more about the world and its inhabitants to unlock special dialogue and skill-check options.
So go, see, do! And don’t be afraid to try the unconventional. Drown yourself in gin? Sure, provided you’ve got the constitution for it. Smoke that opium? Certainly, but be careful not to doze off— it might not be safe here. Put it all on black? You only live once, as they say. Even in failure you learn something…
A Rich Open World to Explore - A steampunk fantasy-inspired Victorian London awaits; filled with interesting characters and locations. Explore the back alleys, opium dens, brothels, and more at your peril, or relax and enjoy their simple pleasures. Investigate, interact, and take action to forge your own path.
Three Characters, Three Different Stories – Play as one of three characters with stories that intertwine through the city’s docklands and unfold based on your choices.
Each character has their own mix of skills, equipment, and expertise, and they might just have to work together to succeed. Will you trust your companions, and should they trust you? Not everyone is a hero after all.
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Mature Content Description:
This game contains depictions of substance abuse and gambling, sexual references, violence, and mature language and subject matter.
©2020 Crimson Herring Studios Inc. All rights reserved. Sovereign Syndicate is a registered trademark of Crimson Herring Studios Inc.
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Posted on: July 31, 2025
ziohal
Verified ownerGames: 46 Reviews: 3
Intriguing plot
I really like the idea of using multiple characters. I don't really understand how the cards and abilities work. But I really like the story and the characters.
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Posted on: March 29, 2025
urmas1
Verified ownerGames: 57 Reviews: 1
Decent Disco Elysium knockoff
The concept of the game is basically the same as Disco Elysium, with no mechanical combat and skills being voices in your head. The problem is that this invites a very unfavorable comparison. There are only four skills and they are very simplistic. There is nowhere near the depth of Disco Elysium. It's basically a point and click adventure with some RPG elements trying to create an appearance of depth and replay value. That said, once you know what to expect, it's still a very fun game on its own.
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Posted on: February 13, 2024
Ig0g0g
Verified ownerGames: 42 Reviews: 6
My Review of Sovereign Syndicate
This is my first game review ever on GOG. WHY: I bought this game because I liked the idea/concept of it in general. Tarot card skill checks? Sounds neat and novel. Steampunk Britain? Reminds me of Frostpunk (which I mildly enjoyed in the 8 hours I've played it, but am bored of now). Character driven story and development? Ok, I'll give it a try. The Good: Art direction is nice. 2/3 playable PCS are interesting. Drunk Minotaur magician? Cool. Dwarf mechanic with a steam automaton companion? Cool. First chapter of game with Atticus was definitely interesting and I was intrigued for more. That's about it for the good. The Bad: Game got boring during chapter 2 and beyond with Clara. Moving around the bland map is slow and made me tired and impatient. Camera is on a rail. Boring sidequests like "Feed the dog/cat" with no reward. Finishing some other sidequests seems impossible because I exhausted all dialogues with all available NPCS and no idea what to do. Quest progression is confusing in general. Music is really boring. As a musician myself, a 6 year old with a couple hours of basic lessons could have come up with the score. Repetitive and bland. In game graphics are not anything to be wowed about. The Tarot card system is just a illusory dice system. Critical failure if you get The Fool, and Critical Success if you get The World. Thought there would be more to it than that. Summary: I really wanted to like this game, but it's just not my thing. Slow, bland story & gameplay, confusing quest progression, bad music and a bit buggy. Overall, unless this is under 5 bucks, or if you really like games like this, I'd save your money.
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Posted on: February 19, 2025
SoloIcewind
Verified ownerGames: 355 Reviews: 12
Sovereign Syndicate
Excellent text-baed RPG where you can really consider your choices.
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Posted on: March 28, 2025
cwalter5
Games: 564 Reviews: 1
Fake Disco
People throw around the comparison to Disco Elysium far too easily. Just because it has a lot of words doesn’t mean they’re worth reading. Quite simply this plays nothing like Disco Elysium where it counts. Painfully linear and not nearly as thought provoking. It was a slog and I gave up after 2 hours.
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