Gladiator Guild Manager

This game is so addicting and incredibly fun!

It's fun to figure out the mechanics and you get a few runs of fun 40-50 hours of fun I'd say. There does seem to be a meta at higher levels of difficulty that feels boring to mash and repeat but there's a lot to enjoy before that

Ultimate fun and tactics.
Everything is near perfect!

Thankfully developers provided enough of free updates bringing more content, but I believe it's still not the end of what can be done in this game!

shallow and abandoned

Great game. Plethora of team combinations.

It starts quite fine and unique. But under the line it is unbalanced, repetitive, and seemingly abandoned by the devs. Last life sign was September last year.

I can not recommend it.

This game gave me a lot of fun. After the first 2 hours I was hooked and really enjoying it. At the beginning it's quite hard to understand everything - best stats for certain gladiators, best equipment, best combos, best setup etc. But with every hour that passes, I feel more capable of winning and I understand the game better. For me, this is really important in games, because it gave me a real sense of progress. In general, gameplay is a strong side of this game.

I really like the art style, the voice acting and the soundtrack & sound design.

The story isn't the greatest, but it's not the most important part of the game either. The dialogues are funny and enjoyable to read. Good voice acting adds a lot.

MUST BUY!!!

Missions move along faster than Gladiators level, leaving the player behind and unable to win.

Maybe other people will find this fun, but, I've tried several times to play and it's just a pain. For some reason the most basic enemy, a guy with a pitchfork, destroys all your highest units, even if you stick to just three guys and build them tall. The building upgrades feel rather pointless since your strongest guys are garbage, why bother hiring more guys by upgrading the amount you can roster...? Idk, maybe there's a bunch of little meta manipulations I could try but I feel like I've tried all the combs, so... probs won't bother with this anymore.

Game can be fun but it has too many bugs and the devs have been silent for 5 months now since September, I won't list the bugs as you can see the massive list in the games forums/discussions, bug report has over 700 posts and nothing I've reported even gets mentioned by the devs...

#abandonedgame
#quickcashgrab

I'd stay away unless the game is free, honestly it's not worth much in the games current state, far too many bugs/problems...

the rock guys that throw rocks are cool

Well worth the low entry fee. I would not be discouraged by the negative reviews.

For me, the game was fun for about 30 hours, and that happens VERY rarely. I essentially played through the campaign three times, each time choosing a different faction to support. The quests are entertaining enough, the voice acting is actually quite good, the writing isn't bad, but not "laugh out loud" levels. The only thing that annoyed me was the fact that it's probably been translated into English by someone who is not a native speaker. To me, it's a dead giveaway when characters or factions that would definitely require an article are almost always referred to without. It's always Baroness, People and High Necromancer, instead of the Baroness, the People, the High Necromancer, etc. Same for buildings, regions, some monsters, etc.
Other than that it's fine.

Gameplay in the campaign consists of doing quests, doing arenas, and doing tournaments to gain rewards in order to unlock new buildings for new gladiators, upgrade buildings, buy items, and upgrade gladiators. There's like 20 different gladiators to choose from, and another 20 or so you can get via quests/factions. Like peasants, undead, bugs, mercenaries, militia, beasts, etc.

In battles you usually fight enemies much higher level than you eventually. Like, my gladiators struggle to get to level 20 in any given campaign (although you can prolong it indefinitely in theory), while the enemy team has guys in their 40s or 50s, but it does balance out, mostly. Sometimes, sadly, you can hit a bit of a brick wall if you're unlucky, mainly in the boss battles. If a boss does insane aoe damage and you mostly have a melee team, bad luck. If they pull your ranged damage dealers, on the other hand, and your main damage is ranged, then you're also out of luck. It happened rarely. On normal. But enough to mention it. The game gives you a lot of options in terms of gladiators, team compositions, stats alignment and items. Most gladiators have a "main stat", but can be built completely differently. Like the "death knight" for example, which is primarily about strength, but has one devastating AOE ability that scales exclusively and highly with intelligence, so I just respecced them into pure intelligence - with some HP to have them survive long enough, and 1 of them alone could completely obliterate most front lines, let alone 2 of them. Or have an intelligence hero specced into agility to reduce their cooldowns and spam crowd control effects. Or have a beast master spear thrower and a team full of wolves, give him an item that makes him invulnerable for 8 seconds, and watch pretty much anything get one shot. The possibilites are near endless, so the replay value is as well. I'm sated for now, but I could see myself coming back to this one.

If that is not enough, you can always increase the difficulty and enable "perma death" for your gladiators. Or take part in the endless mode called "tournament" where you have to just fight random battles in quick succession with very little economy in between.

Overall, great game, despite the naysayers. And yes, you can probably play this on mobile.A mobile game doesn't have to be inherently bad. And this one isn't. If it even is a mobile game.

So, I think the game is fun enough to start, but I feel like it lacks complexity. There are a lot of screen and classes, sure, but there is only so much past that. There are some unique items and some unique traits, but it seems like just choosing the best ones leaves you better than anything else. If the game is maybe $3 or so, maybe it is worth trying, but otherwise I wouldn't say so. It's repetitive, grindy, and doesn't have that much to it. If Steam lets me refund it, I will

I liked this game because:
1) I like strategy games;
2) Do not have countless hours to play;
3) Usally play games when I am tired and it is hard to concentrate;
4) Grew up with Warcraft II and Warcraft III and all this theme knights/orcs etc. reminds me of these games.

10/10

Fun little game. Gets a bit grindy toward the end. But the play-throughs are not very long, so it's not too bad, and there is a bit or replay value by changing factions and difficulty settings. Can recommend if the gameplay seems like something you like.

enjoyable

campaign is less than 4 hours if you speed run a single faction to maxed rep, the game is okay. there's ALOT of bugs, my game probably crashed at least 5 times despite all of this it was fun and i can recommend it to others but only if this game was on super sale like under $8 then this game is worth it but at full price with the bugs I've experienced i'm nuetral and would withhold my recommendation i'd give this game a honest 6/10 if you don't experience bugs or crashes it's a 7/10

Its kind of like clash of clans but single player?

*i've never played clash of clans idk what im talking about

Fun little meme to mess around on

Pleasantly surprised at how much fun I had with this. If you're on the fence and like what this game seems to be doing in theory, just go for it.

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Nah, this ain't it.

This is has some similarities to guild of dungeoneering. Way better in my opinion. 3 factions to fight for or against. Its a scaling game, so the better you do and the stronger your people are, the harder it gets. Sometimes this makes a boss fight nigh impossible, but that's where items come in to play and help you win. Its pretty fun and relaxing, its not about speed, but about strategy.

Definitely more in the manager than the auto battler game-play loop, a little too much UI for me to get too invested in this game

quite a fun management game

good.

very unstable and crashes often

Nice sandbox game

I love management games and have played several gladiator managers over the years. This is, by quite a wide margin, my favorite of all time.

My favorite features:
+ Attractive graphics, music, sound effects
+ No numerical mysteries - you can see exactly what effect every attribute has on every skill
+ Branching storyline that is actually interesting, and the post-game summary lets you know the impact of your decisions
+ Huge number of classes, skills and enemies leaves battles fresh and interesting from start to finish

Tried it out for a bit and noticed bugs everywhere, Some attack combos wont work together. For example, if you use a cryo and a druid, the druids attack wont land if the cryo has frozen the enemy already, Universal items are shallow at best. 100% increase in damage but you start with 20% health, so he gets picked off immediately. Why even use the item at that point? I tried shielding him with a priestess with highest priority only for her to ignore him completely and shield people fighting little imps. Could have been interesting but just not fleshed out. It's like when you find some way to make cool synergies something in the coding just holds you back from being able to actually do it. There's a mechanic where if the fight goes on too long, everyone just bleeds out. WTF is that about. Even more infuriating than that mechanic is the fact there's a perma death option so you may have been able to tank that fight out but instead cause he has a sliver more max health than you you bleed out for no reason and lose all your gladiators. It's a mobile game and belongs on it, not on pc.

Shallow.

This game will give you about 10-15 hours of game-play enjoyment. The game-play loop is fairly standard and quite well done. It takes some time to find a combination that works and it can be fun to figure out what works well and what won't in certain situations. Overall it was a pretty fun game.

Some of the pieces I struggled with:
- The economic balance of the game is slightly wonky; my gladiators typically leveled slower than the market did and I never really had enough currency for certain things (for example, buying all my special abilities or upgrading my special items). At the same time, later in the game I was swimming with the other basic resources. I think for me the hardest part was seeing gladiators in the shop at level 24+ while mine were struggling to reach level 20. Made me feel silly for investing so much into them.

just awesome. specially on deck!

Very nice game

Pretty solid. Always wanted to raise my lil child glads enjoying their hack n slash.

Fun game, multiple story lines. many champions to chose from and lvl up with perks to unlock. build the ultimate champion or create the ultimate team its fun and easy om the hardware.

A fun auto-battler. Designed for kids and teenagers mainly.
Overall, a good variety of heroes to create fun tactics.

Great game!

Good time killer.

good game

can pretty much have fun with the simulation mode. did this for the badge.

The game is bad because I can't literally see the conditions of my gladiators during the fight, I'm tired of counting the amount of them.
I lost 2-3 of my best high lvl gladiators, I don't admit my fault, that's on the devs.
Do not recommend it until they fix this. They can add a panel at the top center of the screen where I always see HP, stamina of the gladiators. Game design is BAD.

Awesome game, lots of passive fun, as auto battlers should be!

One of the most fun games!

A nice and relaxing game, one of the better auto-battler games, but the selection is rather slim, it has enough stuff to do, and only gets more stuff to do as the game progresses, learning curve is good paced.

PC game that thinks its a mobile game. Very simplistic and dumbed down.

Pretty dull and lack luster. Feels more like a free mobile game than a paid title for PC. Very few points of interest, Gladiators feel interchangeable, far and away from any form of meaningful gameplay or risk / reward, it pretty much comes down to watching a squad die and then buying another as the gladiator pool for purchase outpaces the development of your experienced gladiators. Because of this, it intensifies you not to form any attachment or care for the survival of your long term gladiators. I think after the first match I'd played, I spent the remaining hours of play time bored and regretting the purchase - One to avoid, even if it was free

Banger