Strategic Desire's adult strategy and relationship game, The Sultan and His Harem, uses Ren'Py and animated 3D visuals. You play Suli, a male ruler managing the Ottoman Empire while assembling and developing a diverse harem. The full game adds more characters, conquerable countries, and new animations. Players guide both state affairs and personal bonds as the court changes.
The current build is v0.6.13, dated December 25, 2025, and the project is finished. The game no longer receives further updates. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac in English, Russian, and Portuguese, with no censorship. The latest update fixed a crash when visiting Mina and added an option to sell the gay harem member before scenes, after which development closed out.
Developer's description
The Sultan and His Harem is an adult strategy and relationship game where players step into the role of Suli, ruling the Ottoman Empire while building the most exquisite and diverse harem in history.
v0.6.13
We identified and fixed a crash issue that occurred when players visited Mina — the game should no longer crash during those interactions.
Additionally, some players gave feedback about being required to view all scenes involving the gay harem member before being able to sell him. We've now added the option to sell him before any scenes take place.
That covers all reported issues. With no further bugs found, we’re officially wrapping up this game’s development cycle and shifting our focus to our two upcoming titles:
Football Temptations
and
Natalie & Soldiers
.
v0.6.12
It's the full game now. A lot has been added to the game—just to name a few highlights:
More girls and femboys added
More countries to conquer
More cum options
More sex scenes and new animations
Expanded character dialogues
You can now exile or execute harem members
New events added
Auto-resolve battles so you can skip the mini-game
New options for conquered countries: plunder for more gold or occupy peacefully
Enemies can now attack you as well
Improved audio
Visual bugs fixed
Some text corrected
Calamities and gypsy girl added
You can continue playing after winning to revisit the girls in the harem
v0.5.2
-Ability to free / sell girls / boys from harem added. If you are against gay content, you can sell the boys from the harem without much interaction with them. In the future update we will also add the ability to execute them.
-The mini game made more challenging so that it is not easy to conquer all countries. In the future update we will change the difficulty based on the country, so every conquest will feel differently.
-The bug when there is game over even when relationship with Yazir is good was resolved, the overall relationships with wife / minister and population made more balanced.
-Russian and Portuguese translations improved. We might add new languages if there is a demand.
-More scenes/questions added to the Ministry room
-Some new questions, events, scenes added
-Buttons locations made more user-friendly
-Femboy added
-Some minor bugs fixed
v0.3.2
Steam Release
v0.2 Fix
Fixed the stress mechanic, it is no longer present in the game
The mini game, as it is a plugin that we added to the game it has a fixed rule, you only advance in the game if you hit all the targets, to make it easier for the players I reduced the number of targets to one and increased the time of each round this should make the game easier (but in my opinion we should debate whether we are going to keep this mini shooting game in the project)
v0.2
Character name change option added
Mac book version added
Typos and errors in the text corrected
Bugs with end game and stress solved
New country to conquer and a queen from that country added
New fetish and bdsm scenes added
And many more
v0.1
Initial Release
Player reviews
Player rating2.0 / 5 · 11 ratings
Written reviews11 · avg 2.2★
Positive (4–5★)18%
Latest review2026-01-04
What players say
Most reviewers found the game shallow and frustrating, despite some praise for concept and developer responsiveness.
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Players like
Ruling and harem concept has appeal
Some visuals or scenes are decent
Developer listens to player feedback
Common complaints
Combat and conquest gameplay is shallow
Writing and characters feel weak
Sex scenes lack meaningful choices
Best for players who like Ottoman conquest and harem management concepts.
Summarised from 11 written player reviews.
PlastiktB2026-01-04★★★★★
I really disliked the gameplay loop of balancing the 3 stats and gold, and the renders and scenes weren't strong enough to warrant playing more in my opinion. To summarize, there just didn't feel like there was enough content in…
datarelay2026-01-03★★★★★
The Sultan and His Harem v0.6.13 is a management visual novel created by Strategic Desire, tagged as complete despite its version number. The objective of the game is to conquer the world while dealing with the tribulations of your kingdom…
くもり空2025-12-22★★★★★
The Sultan and His Harem is a sandbox conquest game set in the Ottoman age where the goal is simple: Conquer the world while balancing your relationship with your wife, your advisor and your people. Sounds cool on paper but…