
Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!
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Get ready to re-learn how to fight. This game features a physics based combat system with directional attacks. It'll take time to master! Don't worry, gladiators exist to be sacrificed. You control your character fully, at all times, based on complex inputs - you will never sit there while an animation plays.
This game's combat will take practice: at first you will find it hard to even hit anything properly. To win and master combat you will have to slow down and pay attention, pressing random buttons in a panic will only send your gladiator to an even earlier grave. You will learn how to move, how to use momentum to hit HARD, how to hit targeted weak spots and eventually, you will make up your own moves and fight in your own style.
Take control of a gladiator with a single life, that you lead to an inevitable dea- I mean, to victory and glory! Fight from the Pits to the Arena into the Stadium, pleasing larger and larger crowds until you finally become a legend of the Grand Stadium.
There are many roads to becoming champion. Try different approaches and improvise through the randomisation to survive in the long run.
Deal with random events, choose your next matches, please the rich patrons, please the crowds, expand your school, setup your training regime, bribe for information, hire professional help... and much more!
Progress and purchase/loot weapons and armor. Master 8 weapon classes that all play differently. Spend hard earned gold and influence and outfit your character piece-by-piece.
Step into over a dozen arenas of different sizes and styles, each with random variations.
Fight in group battles or take on tense one-on-one duels that test your skills. How long can you last before your inevitable glorious death?
Starting backstories with different traits and goals
Permanent bonuses for each backstory's victory
Dynamic audiences that respond to your actions. Don't just win: entertain!
A ranking system with rewards (levelling up)
Character skills that grow as you perform the relevant actions
And much, much more!
Now into the arena, Aspirant!
Jordy

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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America +1 more
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Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
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Roman soldier cool
This game is a passion project where the love shines through. I have played this game on and off over the years and always come back inspired to take a stab at one of the many backstory play throughs this game offers. The replayability is about 8 or 9 storylines that will honestly take you anywhere from 25-40 tries to get in my experience. I am over half way through the list, and honestly feel sad for the day that I retire my last gladiator. Thank you for this game, Jordy
I liked it, and I beat it. Probably wont play it again.
this game is just so good!! I've played about 65 hours and I love it :) has alot of replayability og is super fun
CHOPPY CHOP CHOP...... Not the FPS, the chopping of limbs. Worth getting if you like hacking people to death
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love this game email me i have an improtant thing to talk to u abt w o steam flagging my comment its very helpful top u joshanderson3215@gmail.com
I am a huge fan of Shadow of Rome. When this game popped up I knew I had to play it and man am I glad I did. It fleshed out the best part of SoR and kept the fun intact. I hope I get to beat up enemies with body parts some day but I'll be just fine if that never happens. Keep up the great work!
i love how much the game has progressed over the years. i may not have many hours for owning it for 2 years. however i love this game as a fun comfort game and im really just waiting to see what 1.0 brings. also as a controller player it takes some getting used to but you can totally use a controller and not feel like your being punished for not using mouse and keyboard. also runs on steam deck great!
gid gut
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