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Build a gladiator through one-life arena runs, combining directional physics-based combat with career choices to pursue championship.
Released 14 Nov 2022
Aim Directional Strikes
Train Eight Weapon Classes
Manage Your Gladiator School
The Ultimate Gladiator Simulator. Fight & strategize through spectacles and arenas. Rise from slave to Champion and earn your freedom or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and unique physics simulated combat. Those who are about to die, I salute you!
Developed by Jordy Lakiere · Published by Jordy Lakiere
Play a gladiator fighting through a career of arena spectacles, from smaller pits toward the Grand Stadium. Each character has a backstory with distinct traits and goals, and a single life: a run ends in victory or death.
Fight with directional attacks in a physics-based combat system. Manage movement and momentum, aim for weak spots, and adapt to different weapons, armor, and match formats, including duels and group battles.
Between matches, choose events and opponents, train skills, manage equipment and resources, and work with patrons and the crowd. Backstories, random events, gear choices, and persistent bonuses for completed goals shape each run.
In the supplied reviews, players often praise the hands-on melee combat, especially the satisfaction of learning its timing and landing deliberate hits. Many also enjoy the stakes of one-life runs, varied gladiator backstories, and the planning involved in training and equipment choices. Some find the combat or progression frustrating, so these strengths are not universal.
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
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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