How cool would be if this game was like Domina/Lanista?

[DimakSerpg]

Where we have gladiators, we train them and they fight for us.

[HibouProfene]

Thanks, I was thinking that was exactly that and I was disappointed when I tried the demo. I'll look into Domina and Lanista to see if I like them !

[FINN]

There's quite a few games where you manage a ludus. It's the games where you play as the gladiator that are lacking

[Wh1chd0ct0r]

i think the mixture of the two would be spot on (personal preference)

managing the ludus buying of aspirants based on backstory, traits ect. upgrading the ludus to allow more aspirants and use of training ground/ better gear/ mood factor tied into stats maybe, managing the busts of your greatest gladiators (the run throughs you may have survived)

then the combat as is, yourself fighting the battles, allowing other gladiators you have to be the extras in many vs many or team fights ect

[Xanodia]

Originally posted by Wh1chd0ct0r:

i think the mixture of the two would be spot on (personal preference)

managing the ludus buying of aspirants based on backstory, traits ect. upgrading the ludus to allow more aspirants and use of training ground/ better gear/ mood factor tied into stats maybe, managing the busts of your greatest gladiators (the run throughs you may have survived)

then the combat as is, yourself fighting the battles, allowing other gladiators you have to be the extras in many vs many or team fights ect

+1

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by DimakSerpg:

Where we have gladiators, we train them and they fight for us.

There is Gladiator Guild Manager, it's pretty fun, too.

[AlterEgo45]

Originally posted by FINNHEIM:

There's quite a few games where you manage a ludus.

Not good ones though.

Domina has the worst case of level scaling I've ever seen. To the point where the game isn't about managing gladiators, it's about sandbagging and managing level scaling. It doesn't matter what fighters you have as long as you're keeping the level scaling in mind and lose enough fights to keep it under control. In fact if you do it well enough, I've heard you can even win the final battle with a complete n00b fighter. I never tried that but I can believe it.

Besides that wasn't the guy kicked off the Steam store because trans people were mad at him? Something happened with him I know.

I tried the Age of Gladiators games, all 3 of them, and they were crap. That dev had a pattern of rushing one gladiator game so he could go work on his next gladiator game. I don't get the strategy. He would have been better off making 1 really good game instead of 3 mediocre ones.

I had a couple of other such games that were crap too. They're never good. They're either like mobile games or they have some crucial design flaw or they're buggy.

Battles of Norghan was good but it is really, really old and it has fantasy elements... it isn't really like a Roman gladiator thing.

I'd like something that is like Football Manager except you're running a ludus and the way the fights are set up is realistic, using the same matchup rules they actually used in Rome. Maybe it's too much to ask because nothing bigger than a one man studio will take this kind of project on.

[meanw000gene]

If you could combine WWAATD combat with Domina's management sim elements, you'd have a really sweet gladiator game. Although there are some aspects of Domina that I would change too.

[Hate Bear]

@AlterEgo45

That's a lot of it. I gather there was probably more behind the scenes. I was kind of hoping this game had the same dirty Roman humor in it, but it doesn't look that way.

[Tchey]

This one is quite good, but also very poor on the visual side : Gladiator Manager. Development is considered done, nothing new to expect. It has simultaneous turn based combat up to 4vs4, with 6 different classes with a wheel system (each classes has an bonus/malus against another).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1251970/Gladiator_Manager/

[Zenbe]

Originally posted by Finn:

There's quite a few games where you manage a ludus. It's the games where you play as the gladiator that are lacking

This. I wouldn't mind it as an added feature down the road. But I am glad the base game focuses more on something like Shadow of Rome.

[Gato Laser]

Originally posted by Finn:

There's quite a few games where you manage a ludus. It's the games where you play as the gladiator that are lacking

This.

[Lichrot]

Originally posted by HibouProfene:

Thanks, I was thinking that was exactly that and I was disappointed when I tried the demo. I'll look into Domina and Lanista to see if I like them !

YOu can only get Domina on Gumroad or something since the dev got banned and the game removed, since he was a neo nazi spouting his neo nazi rhetoric in the updates page