Game2021

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

AdventureIndieRPGSimulation

Developer Sever, Schisma Games

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is a text-based 2021 role-playing video game developed by Sever and published by 101XP. Players make choices in a branching storyline. The sequel, The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian, released on the 20th of July 2026. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

393 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

76
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231 positive · 71 negative
95% range 71–81%

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Steam reviews231710
Bluesky *21353
Lemmy *2011
Mastodon *100

* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).

Steam's own rating
Very Positive
3,611 of 4,108 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What players are saying

74% recommend · 195 yes, 69 no

Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 264 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (11,601 of 13,241 positive).

Players praise the game's narrative, world-building, and writing as exceptional. [1][2][3] Many reviewers note that choices are heavily constrained by stat checks, limiting role-playing freedom. [4][5][6] Some players find the game's harsh difficulty and stat requirements frustrating. [7][8][9]

Liked
  • Excellent story and world-building. [1][2][3]
  • Choices have meaningful long-term consequences. [7][3][10]
  • Immersive and captivating atmosphere. [11][2][12]
  • High replayability with multiple branching paths. [13][14][10]
Disliked
  • Stat checks often override player choices. [4][5][6]
  • Frustrating difficulty and harsh penalties. [7][8][9]
  • Role-playing consistency is not rewarded. [5][15]
  • Some players feel the game is misleading about choice impact. [9][6]
Representative posts
  • [5]Steam user Steam user …4184Steam review · Apr 19, 2026 · Not recommended

    This game feels like a purely stat-driven system disguised as an interactive narrative. Your choices don’t meaningfully shape the story , only the underlying stats do. As a result, you can act in completely contradictory ways without consequences, almost like having split personalities, because consistency in role-playing is not actually required or rewarded. At the same time, calling it a “pure stat game” isn’t …

  • [11]Steam user Steam user …8147Steam review · Jul 18, 2026 · Recommended

    I am an FPS Shooter / War Action gamer my whole life. I saw this was 100% off and gave it a shot. I AM FLOORED. I am a reader and enjoy literature but this is next level. I had no idea I would fall in love with this genre of gaming and it has changed my life. I'm not even being facetious, genuine aw at this marvel of a concept. BRAVO. You made me a fan and opened my eyes to a radically different gaming experience …

  • [16]Steam user Steam user …1070Steam review · Dec 31, 2025 · Recommended

    > Am born, commoner baby, noble dad > Question my lot in life, get beaten, die, revive, hate nobles > Beat up a boy, he becomes my heterosexual life partner > Watch pretty girl: die horribly, get sold into slavery, and turn her away when she begs for my help (stat check) > Ignore every woman going forward, as I dedicate my entire life to swordsmanship, ignoring all other responsibilities > Become a judge, rule in …

  • [2]Steam user Steam user …6112Steam review · Dec 9, 2025 · Recommended

    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is one of those rare games that doesn’t just entertain you it moves you, makes you reflect, and lets you fully experience another person’s life. It’s a powerful interactive drama that lingers in your mind long after you’re done playing. From the very first moments, the game pulls you in with its dark, rich, and carefully crafted atmosphere. The world is cruel, unfair, and …

  • [1]Steam user Steam user …3323Steam review · Jun 25, 2026 · Recommended

    A great narrative-driven game with good writing, soundtrack, and art style. Also interesting world-building. Despite an overall good impression, I have to state that it is not a "choose your own adventure" type of game, but rather "calculate your adventure". Despite seemingly branching paths, the game is still heavily decided by the numbers you get during your playthrough. I suggest playing once for yourself to get …

Summarised from 34 of the 348 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made

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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante sits at 76% positive across 302 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?

Critics, per Wikipedia

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante received positive reviews on Metacritic. RPGFan encountered a software bug in their playthrough that they felt ruined their ending. However, they said up to that point it had the makings of editors choice because of its writing and gameplay. The Games Machine said when judged as interactive fiction, it is excellent. Though it lacks a German translation, Gameswelt praised the writing and role-playing aspects.

From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.

Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …3957Steam reviews · Jul 3, 2026 · 5 h played

    I spent the entirety of my early life becoming the best warrior possible, having reached the cap of 20 valor quite quickly, made choices according to it. Then the game proceeded to kill me in stat checks where valor mattered. I cannot recommend a game where the choices I make are not taken into account, even trampled on.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3323Steam reviews · Jun 25, 2026 · 24 h played

    A great narrative-driven game with good writing, soundtrack, and art style. Also interesting world-building. Despite an overall good impression, I have to state that it is not a "choose your own adventure" type of game, but rather "calculate your adventure". Despite seemingly branching paths, the game is still heavily decided by the numbers you get during your playthrough. I suggest playing once for yourself to get into the game's world and mechanics, and then use guides to read through a…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7045Steam reviews · Jul 16, 2026 · 11 h played

    I really want to love this game, i will give it a thumbs up because the story and soundtrack are really great, but i couldn't finish the game. I ragequit and restarted the playthrough 4 times in the past 2 days. The game is divised in 4 parts, and no matter how I approached my choices, i got stunlocked at the end of chapter 3 with decisions limited to only 1 as either i didnt have enough remaining "willpower" (energy-like mechanism besides the other countless stats you need to level) or was…

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  • AnarchistArtificer @[email protected]Lemmy · Dec 15, 2025

    What are your gaming highlights of 2025?. I was just reflecting on games I've played in the last year, and wondering when Steam's year-in-review thing would be happening (probably within the next week). However, I thought it might be interesting to ask this question before that drops, because I'd expect that people will respond differently before they've seen the data, and I think that subjective aspect of the reflection is interesting. So tell me what games you've played in the past year that…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8147Steam reviews · Jul 18, 2026 · 1 h played

    I am an FPS Shooter / War Action gamer my whole life. I saw this was 100% off and gave it a shot. I AM FLOORED. I am a reader and enjoy literature but this is next level. I had no idea I would fall in love with this genre of gaming and it has changed my life. I'm not even being facetious, genuine aw at this marvel of a concept. BRAVO. You made me a fan and opened my eyes to a radically different gaming experience for me.

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  • who @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 17, 2026

    [Steam] The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante.

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  • Wario64 @wario64.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    Last day to get The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante for free on Steam buff.ly/BPzEw2N Deck verified

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  • inclementimmigrant @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 17, 2026

    Save 100% on The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante on Steam.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4184Steam reviews · Apr 19, 2026 · 17 h played

    This game feels like a purely stat-driven system disguised as an interactive narrative. Your choices don’t meaningfully shape the story , only the underlying stats do. As a result, you can act in completely contradictory ways without consequences, almost like having split personalities, because consistency in role-playing is not actually required or rewarded. At the same time, calling it a “pure stat game” isn’t entirely accurate either. Many of your choices don’t meaningfully affect how…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9673Steam reviews · Jul 17, 2026 · 71 h played

    Writing this review for all the newcomers to the series. I HIGHLY recommend this game, and I also recommend everyone to avoid spoilers, since one major strenghts of Sir Brante is its writing. But here's sort of short summary(no spoilers) of why you should play this game. Basically imagine if visual novels genre had a baby with RPG genre, and ya get Sir Brante! The gameplay is you trying to help Brante survive, by making important choices in his life, shaping him as a person(as in, is he more…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3762Steam reviews · Mar 9, 2026 · 17 h played

    Of all game genres, interactive novels are the most important to me. They’re basically the only games I still have the energy for when I’m sick. They distract just enough from pain and fever, run on a cheap laptop you can drag into bed, and can be played one-finger-style while lying down. Possibly the greatest invention for chronic illness on earth (after NSAIDs). In that sense, “The Life and Suffering…” works pretty well. For the first three or four hours you’re fully immersed in a bleak…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6986Steam reviews · Jul 20, 2026 · 11 h played

    The game is well thought out for the most part and the story is intriguing. BUT it is also very misleading, it encourages you early on to min-max into specific paths (perception/valor) to achieve events. Yet doing so CAN and WILL doom your run if you solely stick to specific talents instead of equally distributing everything, which is counter-intuitive and frustrating. Such an example goes like this. You max out valor (x) stat, or you please you uncle/father to the maximum , then you…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3322Steam reviews · Aug 19, 2026 · 6 h played

    I really wanted to like this game but as soon as the choice for a true death appeared i took it just to be done with it and closed the game. PROS: 1. The setting is great, I found it refreshing and the dark fantasy theme strikes that sweet spot. 2. The story itsels is interesting, the characters and lore are compelling enough. 3. I liked the UI and easy to navigate. CONS: 1. The main point of the entire game is that you get the CHOOSE how Sir Brante live went. You are told at…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6386Steam reviews · Jul 18, 2026 · 4 h played

    The game quickly became dull, it just plays itself for two reasons: 1) Stats dictate everything because they grey out decisions (at the point you can only pick one out of five, nice choice game lmao). Because of this, I already picked a ton of decisions I didn't want to take, it locked me in a specific route I didn't really like and that route quickly became worse and worser so I just lost interest in that specific playthrough, I might start all over again. 2) You make very few choices,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9480Steam reviews · Aug 31, 2026 · 9 h played

    There's a lot to love about this game - the setting is creative (an infrequently used French Revolution-era with a weird cosmology), the writing is good (with some glaring spelling mistakes), and maybe its best characteristic is having a sense of tension that's hard to escape from. This is a dark universe, and it doesn't like you, and the characters are flawed and you shouldn't like many of them. But I have to recommend against investing time in this game since it suffers from a flaw (an…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3173Steam reviews · Aug 1, 2026 · 7 h played

    What a crazy good and unique experience, the kind of game you can't wait to see what happens next. Pro tip: enable ironman mode and hide consequences, best choice ever.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7004Steam reviews · Aug 13, 2026 · 4 h played

    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante – Choices Matter. Your Happiness Doesn't. This game asked me to shape one man's entire life. So naturally, I spent hours carefully building relationships, principles, skills and political beliefs... ...only for one missing stat to tell me I apparently don't have the emotional capacity to open a door. The Good: Fantastic worldbuilding with an absolutely miserable caste system. Choices actually come back to haunt you YEARS later. Characters remember how…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2287Steam reviews · Jul 19, 2026 · 14 h played

    I guess i got mislead by the game promise and tags. It presents itself as an RPG with choices that matter but plays out more like a roguelike where you have to choose a series of options independently from the roleplaying aspect if you want to progress the story. Like many other reviews explain, you get involved in the story and its really good atmosphere, writing and so on, just for the game to prevent you from making meaningful decisions where it matters because you lack 1 point of stat. This…

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  • LCP @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 17, 2026

    [Steam, GOG] The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante | 100% off/Giveaway. Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1272160/The_Life_and_Suffering_of_Sir_Brante/ GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_life_and_suffering_of_sir_brante_chapter_12

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  • Steam user Steam user …1070Steam reviews · Dec 31, 2025 · 5 h played

    > Am born, commoner baby, noble dad > Question my lot in life, get beaten, die, revive, hate nobles > Beat up a boy, he becomes my heterosexual life partner > Watch pretty girl: die horribly, get sold into slavery, and turn her away when she begs for my help (stat check) > Ignore every woman going forward, as I dedicate my entire life to swordsmanship, ignoring all other responsibilities > Become a judge, rule in favor of the commoners every time because I hate nobles > Am coerced into an…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1430Steam reviews · Jul 20, 2026 · 4 h played

    This is a no-brainer at the current giveaway -- it's an interesting game with more interlocking systems and hard choices than are typical in, say, Choice of Games titles (some of which I've quite liked). The world it presents is an interesting one, well-designed to make the "moral" layer of choices not as easy as good vs. evil or order vs. chaos. The characters, like the factions and their philosophies, are ambivalent and ambiguous, and what passes for likability is often a selfish disregard…

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  • RPG towns @rpgtowns.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2026

    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is free to grab on Steam. I've heard many great things about this text heavy RPG & it's even Steam deck verified. store.steampowered.com/app/1272160/...

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  • Steam user Steam user …6112Steam reviews · Dec 9, 2025 · 90 h played

    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is one of those rare games that doesn’t just entertain you it moves you, makes you reflect, and lets you fully experience another person’s life. It’s a powerful interactive drama that lingers in your mind long after you’re done playing. From the very first moments, the game pulls you in with its dark, rich, and carefully crafted atmosphere. The world is cruel, unfair, and unforgiving and that is exactly what makes it so compelling. You’re not just reading a…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0398Steam reviews · Nov 26, 2025 · 13 h played

    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante drowns you in a world it never actually makes you care about. I put in around 13 hours, and while the core concept is initially appealing, it quickly collapses into a slog of text and decisions that aren't very interesting. You’re not role-playing a life; you’re trying not to lose lives while the game lectures you. The sheer amount of political chatter would be forgivable if it felt meaningful, but most of it plays like background noise you can’t really…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6837Steam reviews · Jul 18, 2026 · 10 h played

    If you enjoy poorly written text repeating the same phrases and concepts to you dozens of times for several hours like the authors think you have dementia, this is a game for you.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1019Steam reviews · Aug 15, 2026 · 8 h played

    I can not recommend this game as it does not have basic qol features as skipping text you have seen already and quick save/load. Any curiosity you will have will punish you with 90% same text you have read already. I have spent at least 2 out of 8 hours played just redoing choices to get what i need for few decisions.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4425Steam reviews · Jul 22, 2026 · 31 h played

    I got the game while it was on a 100% discount and I can only recommend trying it if you see it for free. The main issue to me is that the game deliberately undermines its own strongest premise for the sake of making an unspoken "profound point" through its mechanics. To explain, early on you are sold on the idea that stats are highly important in this game. Personal traits, family reputation and later on even professional stats and even stats relating to revolution. The reality is that…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6043Steam reviews · Jul 21, 2026 · 4 h played

    The choices you make don't seem to matter. The stat checking makes sure of that. You could make consistent logical decisions that should in theory lead you down a certain path but they do not matter. You must play it a very specific way in order to get different paths which in turn makes the story sometimes come across as disjointed.

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  • falseprophet @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 20, 2026

    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante on Steam and GOG Free and other stores. A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide! [GOG](https://www.gog.com/en/checkout/1ae20d395067/complete) FREE…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1094Steam reviews · Jul 18, 2026 · 3 h played

    I picked this game up for free and thought I would play it for 5 minutes and uninstall. Three hours later I found myself still playing, neglecting real life responsibilities. It's a wonderful game that keeps you immersed, the art style is amazing. Definitely would have paid to play this gem. Just absolutely astonishing. It reminds me of Sunless Skies. Props to the developers and anyone who worked on it

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  • Steam user Steam user …6747Steam reviews · Jul 16, 2026 · 8 h played

    Having played this game, I am now eternally plagued by steam recommending me various hentai visual novel garbage. Heavy is the burden imposed upon your average "choices matter" enjoyer... Anyway, the game is really good with establishing an interesting narrative and lore that gets you immediately hooked. It presents you with an arrangement of storylines to pursue, always keeping you on your toes with choices that challenge your views and morals. You really have to carefully plan out your…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6454Steam reviews · Jun 5, 2026 · 7 h played

    The story itself is good, but i dont like being held hostage by the stat system. I get you're supposed to get the endings you want via trial and error, and prior run knowledge but i personally dont vibe with that.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1750Steam reviews · Jul 27, 2026 · 16 h played

    What's the point of "making your own journey" if in the end you most likely get the wrong outcome despite picking the most logical options to achieve your goal? I chose the path of a priest, maxed out my Theology stat, yet somehow ended up with the massacre ending, where my protagonist became the "Butcher of A... (forgot the city's name)" And all because my Oratory skill wasn't high enough. Bruh... it's not a game about Sir Brante's life, but about managing his stats

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  • My Abandonware @myabandonware.comBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    A narrative role-playing adventure game The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is currently free on Steam! Add it to your account until July, 23, 17:00 UTC to keep it forever store.steampowered.com/app/1272160/...

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  • Steam user Steam user …5059Steam reviews · Nov 14, 2025 · 27 h played

    This is one truly amazing game. There are many words of praise I could shine on it, but allow me to be brief. The story is absurdly excellent. The world-building is astonishing and I am lost for words for just how creatively brilliant this game is. So many concepts are developed to their fullest extent, while others remain purposefully obscure – leaving you with more questions than answers. This aspect is only supported by the replayability of the game with all its branching paths,…

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  • Kaye Ross @kaye.zoneBluesky · May 31, 2024

    We recorded the Life and Suffering of Sir Brante WOFF! episode today. The first draft of the notes was 11,000 words long. I managed to get it down to 9,000. Perhaps the longest outline we’ve had for a single episode of a show (the only one that comes close is Pentiment).

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  • Steam user Steam user …1882Steam reviews · Jan 16, 2026 · 6 h played

    Not bad, but a bit bland. There are many choices, but there’s a certain threshold you have to meet, so if you want a specific outcome, your options end up being quite limited. Maybe free will is like that. You feel free to choose, but not to get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, only a few options remain. 나쁘지는 않은데 조금 밋밋하다. 선택지는 많아 보이지만, 요구 조건을 충족해야 하는 어떤 기준치가 있어서 결국 원하는 결과를 얻으려고 하면 선택의 폭이 꽤 제한된다. 어쩌면 자유의지라는 것도 그런 것인지 모른다. 우리는 항상 선택할 자유가 있는 것처럼 느끼지만, 완전 ㅈ되지 않으려면 결국 몇 가지 선택지만 남게 된다

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  • Steam user Steam user …3203Steam reviews · Aug 14, 2026 · 6 h played

    Choises DO matter, if you can only CHOOSE of course. I litreally cannot choose anything i want because you dont meet specific talens or perks.Whats the point of story games if i cant even choose how i desire.I am bored of choosing option ONLY game allows me to. So frusturating.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6022Steam reviews · Jul 23, 2026 · 9 h played

    the premise was cool and i liked a good chunk of the story but the latter half of the game wore me down and now i dont really feel like getting a better ending than the one i got 3/5 of the game is spent building up stats, and then the last 2 chapters are more about applying those stats to the important decisions, but the game doesn't really offer any foresight into what may happen in the future, so i set a goal for myself at the beginning of the chapter and aim to complete it, in which i find…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0845Steam reviews · Jul 22, 2026 · 3 h played

    The idea behind the game is interesting, but the execution falls short. A game that lasts for hours can end because of a series of automatic events that completely wipe out all the choices made up to that point

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  • Steam user Steam user …1958Steam reviews · Apr 29, 2026 · 14 h played

    While I had heard complaints about this title from others that, upon playing, I easily brushed off, the reason I have to downvote this title is because after getting a fair ways into a run (The peacetime section), the more I realized that there were combination effects that proved to be narratively contradictory. "I'll challenge them to a duel" after I had abolished the dueling system. "You must recant all your rulings across your history as a judge" as I just became a judge and had one single…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0528Steam reviews · Jan 25, 2026 · 5 h played

    My understanding of the premise going in was that I would have a lot of agency in the story by developing my character through my choices. What I found was an experience with tons of exposition and a massive amount of choices where most of them were meaningless. The majority of the choices that were not were instead locked as I did not play one of the optimal paths dictated by the game designers. The early chapters were not that hampered by this and I had a good time, but by the time I…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3700Steam reviews · Dec 29, 2025 · 19 h played

    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is an amazing narrative-driven RPG. Arguably, it may be one of my favourites. When I first picked it up, I didn’t know what to expect, maybe just a short, simple story that would be enjoyable, but maybe not have so much depth. However, I was blown away by how wrong I really was. The story is genuinely very well written and it’s hard not to get invested. Every option has an effect whether it be in that chapter, or twenty years down in Sir Brante’s life -…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1027Steam reviews · Jul 20, 2026 · 11 h played

    poorly made and the ending felt so rushed. The choices are terrible and you really need to minmax and sometimes go out of what your character would actually do. As a novel it's terrible to read and very repetitive and the story never sets off. I had to start skimming because I got really tired after chapter four. Terrible game. the 10 hours that I wasted were not worth it even if the game was free.

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  • FinjaminPoach @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 17, 2026

    Hahaha! I came here to post this The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante used to be the best game in the world. Until they released the sequel yesterday 😇 It will absolutely change your life, and for the better, if you allow it to. Makes you think deeply about a great many things. The world building relies on a fabulous twisting of concepts familiar to us - Lineage, Nobility, Racism, and religion - taken to their extreme in a usually-hellish society. Humans live as second class citizens under…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7928Steam reviews · Apr 2, 2026

    I originally pirated this game and played through it multiple times then went back and bought a copy. It's that good. If you're searching for a game with choices and consequences, but don't have 100 hours to dump into an RPG then this game is for you. It cuts out all the fluff and filler you've played dozens of times, getting right to the stuff that matters. It's not joking when it describes itself as a narrative-driven hardcore RPG. That's exactly what it is.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5382Steam reviews · Aug 3, 2026 · 1 h played

    Received the game for free back then but haven't touched the game since. - While I haven't had the chance to finish my first playthrough, I am already loving the game. Yes it is a narrative-based / visual novel type genre where you actually do nothing but read the whole story via written text hence the visual-novel genre, it somehow captivated my interest in a way that you decide which path would you lead starting from your childhood up to your own death *least that's what the game says*. As…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2527Steam reviews · Jun 17, 2026 · 31 h played

    Sir Brante offers a unique view into a world where death is not always the end. The story is exquisite and even the smallest choices matter. Will you defy your lot and become a noble to appease your Grandfather? Will you dedicate your life to serving others like your father? Will you devote your life to the Twins and become the Priestly sort as your mother wants? Will you throw it all away and strike your own path? Each choice offers a unique path and insight into a masterfully crafted…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5235Steam reviews · Feb 2, 2026 · 17 h played

    I adore this game. It has a surprising depth to its world story and the world's theology that I was very fascinated with. There is a lot of nuance to explore, and I have only touched one of the many paths this game can take you. First off, I want to mention I first played the game with hidden consequences (you won't know what stats your choices change) and it made my first play through feel like a real story. However, it can end up locking you out of important choices for outcomes you want to…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2828Steam reviews · Nov 2, 2025 · 13 h played

    This game has too many restrictions on choices later in the story, and it takes hours upon hours to figure out where you went wrong. Since you have to restart the whole chapter, you end up stuck in repetition after repetition. I’ll have to go through a hell of misery just to complete the game 100%, and I’m not even sure if it will be worth it! While I understand why choices have restrictions (the story needs to make sense), it would have been better not to show me those options at all — that…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8690Steam reviews · Oct 14, 2025 · 12 h played

    Many CYOA games suffer from having some set of outcomes that are optimal. There is a clear set of choices where the good people live, the bad people suffer, and you end up on top. Not so with The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante. This is a game of priorities, not optimality, and if you fail to prioritise you will lose everything. This will feel harsh and unfair, but, importantly, it will not feel like the authors are punishing you for bad reasons, it will feel like the world of The Life and…

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  • Gory Battlefield @garybutterfield.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2024

    I'm playing the Life and Suffering of Sir Brante for work right now and really loving it. It's wild how much stats and resources improve a visual novel formula (see also Disco Elysium, Citizen Sleeper). The feeling of real life is higher when you can't just do whatever you want.

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  • FavouriteShapes @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 14, 2026

    Know of any books which tells a story across distinct snippets of someone's life, rather than a continuity?. a work of fiction that i really enjoy/ed is *The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante*, which is a choose-your-own-adventure story supported with character stats to game-ify it. in it, every chapter is a defining memory randomly from the MC's life, with a choice at the end for the reader Clearly this is quite particular to the *game mechanics* they wanted to create; since i haven't read…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2225Steam reviews · Jul 30, 2026 · 10 h played

    I got this game when it was free to keep as part of a promotion for its sequel, and I have to say: give it a chance if you enjoy games where your choices truly matter. It may have only a few visuals on screen, but they're more than enough to fuel your imagination and draw you into the world of the great Arkanian Empire.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7610Steam reviews · Jul 18, 2026 · 1 h played

    Frustrating. While the story and concept is really cool, the consequences of actions and how they effect your personality are to far off. No spoilers here but Actions i would take kept creating negative effects when they should have done the opposite. Decisions that should bolster your stats hurt your stats instead. Every decision stopped feeling like ones i would actually take because my stats were so low that i was unable to choose different answers.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8594Steam reviews · Jul 18, 2026 · 1 h played

    A lot of people who wouldn't know the difference between an if/else statement with embeded elseifs from a case statement in the reviews. They cry 'AI' any chance they get. Ignore them, there is nothing "AI" about this game. I'm only half an hour in and really enjoying it. If you enjoy a slower paced game where what you do makes a difference and appreciate the theme then you'll probably enjoy this one.

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  • Free Steam Games @steamgamespc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

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  • Steam user Steam user …8726Steam reviews · Mar 4, 2026 · 7 h played

    TLDR: I got beaten to death by my grandpa. I love choice games. And choices do you have. On one hand, the game is 'difficult' in that you can't half-ass everything. Nothing is ideal. Something has to give, for you to gain something. No perfect runs where you get the girl, save everyone, and is hailed as a hero, and you're good at talking and scheming and fighting. On the other hand, I like that the game can have different situations and endings depending on your actions. The world building…

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  • Mad_Punda.de @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 21, 2024

    So, I’m playing adventure games (and similar games that work in the setting) with friends most Fridays. We’ve been doing this for years and have quite the list by now. I’ll list some favorites of mine from that list. But let me know if you’re also interested in some more niche/janky games (not everything we played was good, some of it was so bad it was already entertaining again, especially when enjoyed in a group). * Heaven's Vault * The Case of the Golden Idol * The Life and Suffering of…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7963Steam reviews · Oct 2, 2026 · 9 h played

    Got this game for free as part of the Prince Jerian promotion. If I were summarize the reason I gave it thumbs dumb with one word it would be "disappointment". The first three chapters were really fun as you get to know the characters and worldbuilding. Starting with the 4th chapter things started to change. The game feels poorly balanced and many choices can require multiple stats/relations. In the 5th chapter you can barely do anything as most decisions requires 3+ stats/relations/destinies.…

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