Best games based on Roman Empire?

[HistoryPlayer]

Just curious to know as there is a fair amount of games about Rome, which ones would you say are the best. You can mention Rome 2 Total War as well.

[Starred109]

This one isn't historically accurate, but Ryse: Son of Rome is a good one, I recommend you look that up as it's available on steam. Then theres the first Rome: Total War game, it's dated but fun in it's own way, just like this game. If you want to play a game that focuses more on government management than real-time strategy like the total war games, a Roman game came out in 2019 (which I recently bought) called Imperator Rome, that's a good one too. This isn't completely focused on Rome, but the Civilization games sometimes have Roman characters in them that you can play as, such as Trajan. And that's about it, hopefully some of these games I listed find your interest.

[TheOrangeBox]

Yes I also can voice for Ryse: Son of Rome if you enjoy play hack & slash and story driven game. It replicates well the roman period and is very well made.
I found TW Rome II with the added campaigns in addition to overall mods a solid package to be entertained for some time.
Other older games that come to mind is Caesar III, Praetorians that now has a HD release on STEAM, Age Of Empires: The Rise Of Rome, Nemesis of the Roman Empire and more recent Imperator Rome

[bearfieldlee]

Originally posted by TheOrangeBox:

Yes I also can voice for Ryse: Son of Rome if you enjoy play hack & slash and story driven game. It replicates well the roman period and is very well made.
I found TW Rome II with the added campaigns in addition to overall mods a solid package to be entertained for some time.
Other older games that come to mind is Caesar III, Praetorians that now has a HD release on STEAM, Age Of Empires: The Rise Of Rome, Nemesis of the Roman Empire and more recent Imperator Rome

Did you say Age Of Empires: The Rise Of Rome? Nope, I've definitely missed that one!

[TheOrangeBox]

Originally posted by bearfieldlee:

Did you say Age Of Empires: The Rise Of Rome? Nope, I've definitely missed that one!

Yes it's/was an expansion for Age of Empires - I think might be obsolete by now :)

[Aendran]

Total War : Rome 1 has some incredible mods. Roma Surrectum, which adds a LOT of units is among them.

[mooreshawnm]

Alae Acta Est
Hannibal
Field of Glory 2

[HistoryPlayer]

Ryse: Son of Rome is definitely interesting, although I don't know if you can play with keyboard and mouse as seems to be more fitted for xbox or other console.
Imperator Rome is also another one to take into account, quite similar to Field of Glory: Empires, I wonder which one is a better choice for someone interested mainly in Rome.
Finally, I played Rome 1 Total War but I am afraid if it runs well on modern computers as is dated as 2004. I see Steam has a version of Rome 1, how good is the performance? I read very positive reviews about Roma Surrectum mod which would be the reason to get Rome 1.

[Dashurohem]

Caesar 3.

[Fanigei]

Rome 2 TW with the godly "Divide et Impera" mod.

[Falesz]

Ryse is a really good story game, but it's mostly fiction. Historical accuracy is completely sacrificed for drama and story telling. It's a really good story though, so it's easy to appreciate it without crying over historical inaccuracies. I maxed the Steam chievos out with keyboard+mouse, so I can confirm it works just fine.

Instead of Caesar III, I spent my early years on Imperium Romanum, a really fun city building and managing game. It has individual scenarios and campaign modes, where you have to raise a number of cities. Some levels are about exploiting riches of the lands and making use of trade, others are combat heavy where the objective is to stay alive or destroy barbarian settlements in the area. It's a really fun game, I loved it to death. Except that one level where the objective was to raise a city in a time limit, that one was hard as ♥♥♥♥.

Domina is a really nice pixel game where you manage a ludus. The ending is especially interesting, really recommended game.

Rome and Rome 2 from the Total War series obviously. I see the mandatory "hurr durr dei good vanilla bad durr" guy has already been here.

Imperator: Rome I have not played yet, but if Paradox is going to be consistent with their history, rich people will have an amazing grand strategy game on their hands in a couple of years. The rest of us poor peasants can hope for some 90% sales.

A legionary's life also seems to be a fun game for a playthrough.

[HistoryPlayer]

A new game based on Rome seems to be released in the future on Steam: Roman Empire Wars. There is not much information about it, only 5 screenshots but looks promising in paper

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443980/Roman_Empire_Wars/

Does anyone know anythng else about it or about other games developed by Emperor Games?

[MODERATORS HAVE BRAINROT]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/europa-barbarorum-2

[blackdreamhunk]

All game with rome are fantasy unlesss you were there in person all games based on rom is just fantasy

[Lotor13]

Total War Rome II is the best

I can reccomend "Fields of Glory" , but it is kind of hardcore turn-based strategy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/660160/Field_of_Glory_II/

I do not know other games, which are worth to play

With the Age od Empires I DE, I do not reccomend it, it has nice graphics and improved UI to original, but broken pathfinding and AI

[Lotor13]

Originally posted by HistoryPlayer:

A new game based on Rome seems to be released in the future on Steam: Roman Empire Wars. There is not much information about it, only 5 screenshots but looks promising in paper

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443980/Roman_Empire_Wars/

Does anyone know anythng else about it or about other games developed by Emperor Games?

That looks so shady, it is unknown company, practically no information about game, just few nice pictures,
I am sceptical with that