Participate in tournaments with your team of gladiators as you employ bribes and assassinations to weaken your enemies. Acquire gladiators from your competitors, or sell them if you lose interest. Train them with new skills and upgrade their stats to dominate the colosseum.
Gladiator Manager is a strategic management game with an auto-battler component. It operates on a turn-based system, where each turn is divided into two primary segments. The first segment focuses on actions such as leveling up your gladiators, managing your finances, building upkeep, tournament registration, gladiator acquisition, and opponent sabotage. The second segment is combat preparation and execution: picking equipment and setting up bribes.
The game progresses through various phases, starting from the initial setup (turns 1-50), moving into a more complex mid-game (turns 50-150), and offering late-game gameplay variation and additional content (after turn 150). Through an ascension system, you can do over 10 re-runs with mutators, and there are 3 difficulty settings to complete your games on.
To organise your gladiators effectively, you handle their injuries, and maintain their loyalty. Level up their attributes, select techniques, and choose fighting styles to optimise their performance in battle.
Overall, Gladiator Manager offers a management experience set against a historical backdrop, highlighting the importance of strategic decision-making and effective resource management to rise as the most dominant lanista in Rome.
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Gladiator and beast markets have been completely redesigned!
- Armory now has a toggle for a more zoomed out view of your items
- Class techniques now deal more damage (+10%)
- New intrigue scenarios
- Redesigned Gladiator editor
- Thunderstrike can now daze opponents
- Armory now has a toggle for a more zoomed out view of your items
- Class techniques now deal more damage (+10%)
- New intrigue scenarios
- Redesigned Gladiator editor
- Thunderstrike can now daze opponents
- Added some ambient sounds to intrigue, and choices when being targeted by rivals.
- Some animations for dual wielding were not showing the correct armour type, now fixed.
- New achievement!
- New Upgrade to unlock a consumable item and technique!
- New trait
- Favour is now a little more effective in combat
- Disarm and Rally techniques have been reduced in cost from 150 to 100 gems (if you had these upgrades you have been refunded the difference)
- You can now inspect a tournament to see the competing gladiators before you join.
- Added a new event to defeat a hand to hand specialist for a legendary weapon!
- Added new animations for dual axe wielders
- Uppercut can now only be used with the Cestus or unarmed (disarmed also counts)
- Added a new item: Antidote!
- Added a new outcome (and weapon) for a certain even involving an old friend.
- A rival ludus might now offer an alliance when the circumstances are right.
- Some decision events will now allow you to peek at the upcoming list to help make a decision.
- Gladiators will now auto-equip new bandages
- New Weapon type, hand to hand, with an accompanying weapon: The Cestus,
- New upgrade! Cestarii: Unlocking a powerful hand-to-hand technique, as well as a tournament, class and special gladiator.
Spartacus will now sometimes offer to raid one of your rivals if you pay him enough gold.
- New upgrade Spartan Dynasty, including new events, a trait, technique, special gladiator and a new Item.
- Gladiators on adventure will now show weeks remaining on the details dialog.
- Spies will offer a small bonus on gladiator/beast/item quality and appearance chance in the market
- Techniques will now show their damage calculations
- Many (small) UI improvements
- Reduced memory usage of the app
- Improved drag 'n drop
- Reduced memory usage of the app
- Improved drag 'n drop
- New event
- New rare 1-time-use item (Tome of traits)
- Bugfixes