A Legionary's Life Reviews

Solid game would love to see a 2nd that expands into random events and more overall content. but a solid roguelite that I keep coming back to. Well worth the price paid.

This game got me into RPGs. It's great, albeit a grind, but that's the point. There's well enough replayability and it's well worth the price. Looking forward to buying his next game.

After I saw the announcement of his second game, I decided to leave this review. The combat system at first might seem hard to learn but you eventually get the hang of it. I love how the difficulty of the game reflects its story, in your first runs, you probably will not be able to go around like a God of War and slaughter everything in your wake, you are just a dude who is in the army, so you play it safe and experience the story that way. After your first run, you get curious and invest the points the game has given you to experience the other parts of the story, and from each run you get stronger and stronger, and do the thing you'd never attempt as a regular legionary. Aside from the gameplay loop, the best thing about this game is its storytelling, it puts you into an interesting time period with incredible attention to detail, and makes you experience it firsthand as a regular soldier, the game makes you feel like you are just a grunt, a pion involved in things bigger than himself. Even if you go and do some otherwordly stuff in your later runs, realistically, you'd just be a footnote in history. I love it.

It is a fun game wich lets you expierence the life of a roman soldier on several campaigns. Its good fun and ur ahppy to live through each battle. The only thing is that the fighitng is a bit repetetive, but still i do like this game alot and am very happy that there is a second game about to be released! The narrative is great and u acutally learn sth about roman warfare and history as well.

only took me 74.4 hours to get a perfect run lmao this one is a lot better than never second in rome, would love to see some form of modding support to allow for extended campaigns or even entirely custom ones

On sale for $5 I'd call it a no brainer. Standard price of $10 is maybe border line, but it's a good game and I had fun with it. Figuring things out with the new weak characters feels a bit grindy but once you get a good long run it's quite entertaining

As a proud Mediterranean, I happily recommend this absolute masterwork of history retelling and addictive game play. However, the most important thing everyone should know before getting this game is that it has a somewhat steep learning curve. However, once you master it while knowing which traits matter, and which ones you should consistently upgrade, you will have a great time. Plus, who doesn't like Roman history?

It does not look like it at first but, this is amazing game, like it very much, finished it many times and still playing, can't wait for another similar game, hope never second in rome will be quality product..

In the roleplaying aspect, I believe this is one of the best games ever made. The writing is excellent, and anyone interested in ancient history will enjoy it. Though we are following real historical battles, your own accomplishments are very impactful in the story, while still keeping everything fully historically accurate. You can die a nobody or become one of the greatest heroes of the time. I can best illustrate this with one of the most difficult events in the story. If you train your character in the right aspects, and you seize the initiative at the right moment, and then fight many enemies by yourself, you can single-handedly save thousands of people. To be exact, [spoiler]an entire wing of your army.[/spoiler] The following quote only describes your reward for this deed, so it will not spoil the context of it. Some could still prefer this not to be revealed before playing, so consider that first before reading it. Still, this was extremely satisfying, so I wanted to quote it: [spoiler]"A crown made of grasses and flowers picked from the battlefield is offered to you. When you start to grasp the magnitude of what is happening, you have to fight back the tears. You are the fifth Roman to receive such a high honor. The fifth in the whole history of the Republic."[/spoiler] Powerful stuff. I only wish it was longer, or more dense with story events, at least. Thankfully, as of writing this, the sequel is already out in early access, called Never Second in Rome.

Great game, very engaging. My only gripe is that it ends. Hope the dev eventually works on a DLC. PS If you purchase this game and enjoy it, check out Never Second In Rome.