Never Second in Rome

Genuinely unplayable. 90% of playtime is reading text wall tutorials and the other 10% is failing luck rolls which determine quite literally the entire game. No matter how you spec your character and his century, you will fail the overhwelming majority of rolls and lose. Don't bother.

A good pairing to A Legionary's Life. More administration, less direct combat. More characters to care about, but you can't spend your denari on them. Story is good.

Bought this game during early access as I played the dev's first game, a legionary's life, and enjoyed that experience. When I heard they were making a sequel I followed the development closely and jumped straight into buy the early access and was not disappointed. The game offers very in depth character building for the player character, the century and specific individuals and encourages experimentation into different builds to get the best from certain skill checks. The game also encourages you to run the numbers and recognise the patterns of the in game training system in order to create the best training program in order to improve your unit as a whole as well as the characters within it. I also think the story is very well written despite that it being based on history, and are a history buff like me, you know how the overarching story will play out but gives you a truly realistic recollection of how a centurion in Caesar's army might have acted and responded to the events that they come up against. The developer is also committed to updating and balancing the game to maintain a fair but firm experience as well as allowing for a whole new experience to be offered with the roguelike/ hardcore mode allowing for incremental improvements to the player character over many more playthroughs, similar to the previous game. In conclusion, I would highly recommend this game to anyone that A) loves history or B) likes classic RPG gameplay of building and roleplaying a character.

A pretty nifty recounting of the Gallic Wars with you taking the role of a centurian. It is a very original game with a steep learning curve but really well thought out and balancd mechanics.

Excellent history. Solid Gameplay.

A fun experience but the Dev dont seem to fully understand why some of us loved the first game. I do recommend it. but if you fell in love with the meta progression in the first game. You wont find it here. There is a ironman mode that has it, but it's locked behind doing a full campaign, and doing this campaign does not give you any starting points. so you start back at 0 If the dev reads this. just give ironman from the start.

Honestly a unique game that rules all while trying to maintain its historical accuracy and person feel, all made by a lone dev! Great gameplay Great immersion Unique systems Excellent price Absolutely reccommend if you're a nerd who cant help but think about the Roman Empire at least once a day