Gladiators: Survival in Rome 12+

Not pay to play!

There are quite a few other games that are like this and utilize this same idea but this is the FIRST game that I’ve seen that is Not pay to win OR pay to play. That needs to be commended heavily because almost every single game nowadays is pay to play. You have the option to use money (obviously there needs to be a way to support the devs) but it’s completely voluntary and you can play just fine without having to pay a cent.

My only issue with the game is how with a lot of the caves they lock everything behind tons of “stone” and it takes days to get through a whole cave just because of how much energy you’re forced to waste and then wait for it to come back. However if you are patient you can still make it even though it is a struggle having to wait sometimes

Also idk if I’ve progressed far enough in the game but I still haven’t received a single weapon above “common”… I would hope that there are special weapons in the game that you can unlock as you fight bosses and such but I guess we’ll see. Hopefully they don’t have special weapons locked behind a paywall or some mandatory payment

Otherwise this is an amazing game and the devs are doing an amazing job, keep it up!

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A REVIEW FOR THE DEVS:

Recently I’ve noticed that when I accomplish a lot in one session and I got to reload the game later it reloads to a point that I already completed. One of the missions is to help a guy arm his soldiers with bows and arrows. I completed that, and then did a couple merchant deals for money and upgraded my town village. When I came back later I saw that the game loaded me into a saved spot that I had already progressed past. It would help if there was either an option to pause and “save” the game, or, if there was some sort of hit with a bed that you could build so you could “sleep” and save at whatever point you are at. It made me frustrated enough that I didn’t log back in for awhile after this happened and I think it would be a way to keep your gamers engaged and coming back if you incorporated some sort of save feature. Other than that, so far so good! Fun game!

Also, thank you for the recent updates adding more ways to earn stamina!

Developer Response ,

Hello! Thanks so much for your review.

Yes, these small rollbacks are a known issue, and is one of our topmost priorities to fix right now, together with the cloud save function.
Very sorry for the temporary inconvenience, we'll do our best to fix it ASAP.

Enjoy the game!

Great Idea - poor execution

This game is fun but you run out of energy way too fast. Mining energy seems to use all your energy. You can’t even finish the caves without leaving and mining energy again. Storage is also a major issue. There is very limited storage so you can’t build up reserves, and when you play an event you have to carry all the event items in your backpack bc there is no place to store any of it. Also, things cost way too much gold. You have to should be able to select the things you want to sell for gold instead if giving up valuable resources that you need to upgrade in exchange for gold. The math just doesnt make sense in this game. Lastly, there needs to be a better weapons/armour system. All the weapons are the same and you can never really upgrade them. Please continue to update the game bc it does have a chance to be really good, it just needs to be thought out more. Have the devs tried to play this game themselves???

Developer Response ,

Hello! There are many ways to restore energy which will unlock later on in the game: mini-game, the worker delegate system, various dishes with restorative effects also deserter human enemies drop walnuts which restore 3% energy and are basically free to get!