Never Second in Rome

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

Can't believe I didn't give this game a review before. It's loads of fun whether you want to go through once or twice as a story based player who wants an immersive military rome simulator with decisions that affect how you operate in the ranks of a legion, or you are a combat focused player who enjoys a very tough challenge for the ambitious, that can be played many times over, you are in for an awesome experience regardless. Pick up the game, you won't regret it, unless you are against a lot of reading, because this game has an incredible set of descriptions for scenery, combat, and politics.

I cannot in good faith recommend this game right now. I'm only retaining it because I think it could be good in the future if the developer works towards repairing a lot of the underlying systems. Unit Combat: Very flat, very few decision. You move a slider back and forth depending on how aggressive you want your forces to be. There is absolutely no reason to choose anything below Steadfast, going below it just leads to your troops getting slaughtered. There's no tactics or strategy, its just "move slider up for attack, move slider down for defense(kind of)". If you station your character at the front of the formation they tick up fatigue, and there is no way to reduce fatigue in group or individual combat. So, by the end of each battle phase you have to recall your character to the rear, but then they get debuffs for being cowardly(even when they are literally collapsing from exhaustion. And the cowardice bar isn't even linear, its one level for being at the front, and two for being at the rear. Individual Combat: Honestly the facet of the game that I got sick of within one hour. In theory you're supposed to balance your character's attributes with the enemies weakness, and their strengths with your weaknesses, and fight a back and forth duel. In reality, you slaughter your first opponent, get winded by your second or third, and can't do anything but spam defense. And even then, the AI doesn't attack you unless you are completely overmatched, otherwise they just spam recovery and defense. As soon as you're winded, you're done. If your fatigue hits 200, you cannot fight in duels, but there is no option to disengage or at least catch your breath. You just have to click through it until it finally, mercifully ends. I want this game to be good but serious changes need to be made.

Excellent history. Solid Gameplay.

Great Continuation from the last game with a much grander scope.

Highly Recommended Sequel! As a fan of "A Legionary's Life", I was waiting for this game for a long time. It did not disappoint. As an enjoyer of roman history and complex number games, this game scratches an itch like no other. This is the kind of game I always dreamed of making myself as a kid and I hope to play more from Alessandro.

What a brilliant game! After spending hours playing A Legionary's Tale, I've always wondered what it would be like to start the game as an officer fighting low-level troops. This game has lots of depth and the story is amazingly well written, highly recommended!

This game is infuriating beyond words