Nice chill autobattler. Rank up at your own pace. Keep your guild size small until you need more units for a battle. I recommend at least a Drummer with max health and AoE items, this will keep you going a while.

The games fun for a few hours. I played way more than I should have, due to illness. But even with no other mindless games to play, I was tilted when I came across the a particular boss who literally has a skill to instantly kill a gladiator. I was also playing on perma death mode, so this tilted me further. Rebuilding my front line after my massive, dependable tanks got insta'd, was not desirable.

Without perma death, games to easy and simple. You don't have an economy to manage..... You can go negative. No one abandons you, no one says anything, I don't even know if there is a negative outcome. Additionally, when playing on perma death mode, theres a building you can build, but it won't do anything.. so I feel the game should remove it if you click perma death. Anyways, if you do pick up the game (on sale) then I recommend using perma death so the games not a bore and hover the 'surrender' button, to protect your gladiators from perma death, in the instances you misjudge or a key gladiator is about to die.

Some of the other reviews refer to stun locks and 'bugs', but this was not my experience. The odd 'stuns' you see in game are genuine stuns. Usually some form of explanation if you look into the other gladiators skills.

I liked the game, strategy and choices, it has a good indie feel and very playable. It does feel a little slow paced though and I don't understand the need for the timeline progression, there could be more happening and more tougher choices to make.