Never Second in Rome

A bit too RNG dependent. Weird, considering they go out of their way to say it isnt

The simplicity of Legionary's life is its strength, everything makes sense, and each hit or miss is satisfying or frustrating but it felt real Never second in Rome mechanics are so complex but not fun, not to mention doesnt make any sense, the ui is all over the place, too much variables, and it is such a chore to play, sorry but cannot recommend

Great game, you'll enjoy it if you liked the first. Stick it out through a battle or two, and the new century-level combat isn't as obtuse as it originally seems. Fatigue is the enemy.

I have been following and playing this Devs games for awhile now. Although this game has its flaws (Not being super in depth in some areas), For it's price, overall gameplay, and writing, I believe it makes it worth it. Although I did like his first game, A Legionary's life a bit more. It is not for everyone, but if you like reading, dice rolling, and basic tactics, it is fun.

For $13 this is an excellent game if you're a fan of Roman history. The creator clearly did a lot of research before making this game, because I've never seen any other historical game accurately reflect how combat actually (likely) worked in the ancient world (i.e with phases of clashing and recovering). Similar to the first game (Legionary's Life) you go through the story/career of a soldier during a pivotal moment in Roman history. It's really fun getting the story bit by bit from your character's perspective while having the knowledge of how things happened in history. I think if you enjoyed Legionary's Life you'll most likely enjoy this game. However, this game has one massive flaw in my opinion--the individual combat. The combat is fun. It's very strategic and once you figure it out and train up your character you'll have a blast carving through your foes. The problem is that you're not just doing it occasionally or frequently, you're doing it very possibly a dozen times or more for each battle. I might have been fine with fighting so frequently if I was just controlling my character, but you also have to control the character of many of your subordinates during battle. I really don't understand that design choice. First, it completely breaks the immersion which this game otherwise tries hard to maintain. I'm playing my character's career, why am I inhabiting the body of someone else? Second, the tedium becomes overwhelming. in almost all of the combats you do it will be for a very short duration and will lead to no significant outcome. You might take a small hit, you might land a small hit, or more likely you'll both miss and nothing will happen. After a while it becomes so overwhelmingly boring and flat out annoying to have to do this over and over and over again in battles. Sure you'll have times when you're desperately trying to stay alive against an overwhelming enemy, or maybe you're decisively beating the enemy and you're chopping them up, but those moments are few and far in between. To sum it up, I really enjoy combat when I'm playing my character that I've trained up over the course of the game. I really hate it when I'm forced to play Joe Schmo #8 doing meaningless combat #13 of the indecisive clash #6. Please add an option to simulate combat not involving our own character. If you let us watch it that would be even better (imagine being on edge wondering whether your subordinate is going to wind up dead?).

I put 100+ hours into the first game. Loved it. This one has so much you have to learn up front I can't get into it. Also, the first one would have some very frustrating RNG but it was just to the limit of acceptable. Other reviews are saying this one is worse. If that's the case I can't bring myself to spending the time learning how to play it.

I have been having slot of fun and the iron update is a very welcome addition. Devs hard work really showed in this game

I really wanted to like this. And I did... right up until my first combat... its just sooo overly complex and its hard to tell whats going on because we're basically playing on a spreadsheet.