Never Second in Rome

Wow, never post reviews but the love and care gone into this game is immense. Fantastically written and the mechanics, whilst difficult to understand at first, really do mesh together well. Bloody difficult though.

Хорошее продолжение первой части серии. Рекомендую.

Yes

really engrossing!!

Huge fan of this devs first game, huge fan of this one! It's well written, and makes you feel immerssed in the setting. While a bit different from the last game, the one-on-one combat is satisfying, and the army battles even more so (once you get the hang of it). A wonderful game from a passionate solo dev.

Very good game with great history and story for your characters and century. The last part I felt a little disconnected from my company/century since you dont stay with them long enough to create a bond. The game in general is great 9,5/10

A pseudo-sequel to a legionary's life that expands the scope out from an individual to a whole century. The previous title was more of a roguelite RPG whereas this one is more of a management/battle sim with RPG elements. The story telling and history contained within is simply fantastic, experiencing Caesar's campaigns in Gaul and against the Pompey faction makes the game feel quite interesting as you work your way up from a newly raised legion into one of Caesar's elite veterans. Gameplay consists of a mix of training your century, choose your own adventure style narrative events, tactical battles, and individual fights. Your main character is the Centurion (who I like to imagine is a descendant of the legionary from a Legionary's life, though this is just my personal RP.) who will slowly grow in stats over the course of the game. Their stats matter slightly less than in the previous game since you also have the century consisting of a couple named junior officers and later a few notable soldiers plus the unnamed dozens of other men under your command. If you are reading the reviews that mention slow gameplay this is still true but the dev has added a lot of options to speed up the battles compared to the EA launch. It's still a bit slow but your tolerance for such things may vary. Learning how to game the individual fights and training both yourself and your notable troops well is really the key to routing your enemy versus merely holding your own in a battle. I do wish the Centurion was a little more variable, with more impactful starting choices that would change how you approach the training and camp aspects of the game or if your own skills effected the training more (for example a javelin expert centurion training the troops leads to the possibility of a hugely impactful first throw at the cost of sword skill, same with shield and endurance and turtling tactics or sword and strength and aggression). Right now it does feel like the best century will look the same regardless of the centurions stats and abilities outside of just being generally better by having better management stats. I will also say it is a little annoying not staying with the same legion throughout the game, while probably a good historical/balance thing it is a bit sad feeling like you have to start over. Overall I think the Dev is really solid and I hope they continue with this line of games whether they stay with the roman theme or change the historical period. I would love to see a third game that combines the best aspects of a legionary's life and never second in rome with generational gameplay and more management. Maybe moving away from the pure historical setting if needs be.

This game improves on many aspects of a legionaries life, but I wish the rougelike elements were default.

Doceniam nowe mechaniki, ale system mimo, że podobny do pierwszej części, to wydaje się w opór randomowy.

Pokud vás baví Řím, hody kostkou a hromady textu tak vás to bude bavit.