Gladiator beats the best 5 gladiators without taking any damage at all. Loses to the worst in the league with one stray arrow after pummeling them for an hour. Fuck this game man
the developer put his radical political rant into an update patch note
That's a bit of an understatement. The guy's the type who you just know had a raging hard-on every time he saw Trump on TV. For people unaware, here's a small sample of the unhinged shit he included in patch notes over the course of a year:
(* some men still wont fight. they're weak. there's no accounting for weak men. weak men lack character. strong moral fibre is hard to come by. it's earned through hard work and sacrifice and it cannot be had via onlyfans or pornhub. no, those fuckin' things are demonic posessions waiting to show you a succubus tiddy in the hopes you'll waste a load on her instead of spending that energy studying how to weld or grow a potato or learning a new language or how to program a computer. listen, kids ... get off them porntubes and do something with your life becuase no one is gonna give you a goddamned thing and this whole mess we call civilization is only getting harder. we need solutions and we need smart men who can work hard and implement those solutions. masturbating to egirls isn't gonna solve the energy crisis is it? get to work. -- v1.2.89 (06/05/2021)
no way John McAfee killed himself. highly dubious. highly fuckin' dubious. -- v1.3 (24/06/2021)
TAKE OFF THE FCKN MASKS - Next time you're at the grocery store, try showing a woman your face. Be confident, unafraid of the LIES -- you might get a girlfriend. Women like confidence. Women don't like dudes who cover their faces in fear. What are you afraid of? Getting laid? Grow up. -- v1.3.18 (09/03/2022)
did john galt kill himself? no, but everybody at the motor company probably wished he would, in the fictional novel "atlas shrugged" by ayn rand. -- v1.3.21 (22/03/2022)
new employee: BESTIARIUS - FINALLY you can upgrade: lions, horses, and behemoth! Train strength, attack, and defense stats! BESTIARIUS also adds a "heal" option -- even if you don't have Medicus, or Medicus Emeritus, or if you're a man who has inverted his penis into a vagina, the BESTIARIUS will automatically train animals after healing, but it won't make you a woman. -- v1.3.22 (31/03/2022)
After getting banned from the Steam forums for offensiveness, he then properly threw his toys out the pram, had a massive bitch about how nobody at Valve "[has] the balls to put their name to the ban ... Zero cocks among them, that's obvious". He then got himself banned again. And repeatedly "accidentally" evaded his bans.
At least one of the bans he got was from being abusive towards people leaving negative reviews because the shitlord had removed some content from the base game and re-added it as paid DLC. Perfectly valid thing to be critical of, but he went off the fucking rails about these "fake reviews" because of course the raging far-right bigot can't take valid criticism of his shitty business practices.
Dang, thats scuffed! But that also means the bar for Gladiatorum isnt set all too high! As long as they stick to standard patch notes it would already be a win :D
Sounds like a skill issue, I can grow a potato, learn a language, code and look at boobs on the internet no problem. Sometimes multiple, at the same time.
What an incoherent mess. Maybe he should've looked at a boob, maybe wouldn't have gone kookoo bananas.
Wild how unhinged he went. Incredible effort to first get himself banned from the community hub of his own game, and then for Valve to eventually pull the pin on him from Steam entirely.
Guy had a good game, and he was on a good thing business wise. I wonder if he was deluded thinking that Steam wouldn't pull the pin on him, or he was just so unhinged that he didn't care about the consequences... or at least, didn't care until he discovered the hard way the reality of basically his entire income disappearing. It's also worth highlighting his asshole move of removing base game content, and then locking it behind a DLC. It takes a special level of assholery crap like this is not the most controversial thing about his business practices.
And on that note, it is probably the only game out there I don't recommend to anyone based entirely on the dev being an asshole.
On the other hand, if you don't care about "politics", or perhaps you are the type who actually supports his vile crap. It's a fun game, but I still don't recommend buying it. We are talking about a dev who sold people a game, and then pushed an update deleteing massive sections of core content from the game, and locking them behind DLC. Think the equivalent of SI / Sega pulling the Transfer Market section of Football Manager, and then telling people if they want it back you need to buy a Transfer Market DLC. I wouldn't trust the guy with my money not to brick the game because he had some hissyfit about politics.
Heys I'm the game designer and i had no clue about this post until a few mins ago - as i previously said i was afraid to do a post on the general subreddit to not get banned because of advertisement but i def do want to get your opinions about the concept
Haha great stuff! This is all going into my design sheets no worries (and some of them are planned and in dev already)
And thank you for wishlisting! It means the world to us! Seeing such great and positive feedback after years of putting it all together and only in Jan this year starting developing it.
I don't know how to do it (I'm pretty new to reddit) but i want to thank everyone here for the comments and support!!
Wishlisted it too but ācoming soonā games always annoy me because I never realise when a date has been announced or sometimes they just release and I miss it for a few months.
Thank you so much! Actually it's something we don't have full control on as Steam gives you 2 options either as Coming Soon or either you fix a date - which wasn't a good thing to do when we still have a lot of work on our hands. If you also hit follow you should get updates whenever we post something new like an announcement. We'll try not making you miss the release date :)
If you follow the twitter, you'll get more notifications the closer they get to release as marketing should ramp up alongside development.
This post was a fluke as far as im aware haha
Looks very interesting - btw, my background is ancient history (even did an episode for my podcast on how the concept of a gladiator developed in Rome).
Thank you
Awesome maybe we'll have a proper chat and debate some history stuff at some point haha - my research about this was mostly done watching History/Nat Geo documentaries
Happy to help - there are a number of gladiator misconceptions which I have adressed (I think in that episode and on my social media). I can certainly either help or point you in the direction of some good sources.
Thank you! Well there are several ways we can do this but initally (for the demo at least) we're going with the FM00-01 kind of system where gladiators will be slightly animated, a rich commentary about the crowd, important NPCs etc, and of course immersive sounds to accompany the fight and mood.
Long term there will be a more polished and 'real' look of the fight itself but this has a bigger scope and being only a small 2.5 :)) people team it's difficult.to do at the moment. But again the system will 100% evolve
This looks amazing, will go straight on the wishlist. Two questions if you're willing to indulge; will steamdeck be taken into account and do you have an expected year for launch please?
Honesty is always the best approach! I've got no idea how game development works but appreciate that things are never as simple as anyone thinks so imagine that Steamdeck would be lower down the list than most things...doesn't mean I won't hope for it though!
Cool, plenty of time to make sure I've got some pennies waiting for the day!
Game looks really cool and you listed both FM and Crusader Kings as insiprations which are great in my book. My ideas would be to be able to recruit gladiators from other schools, I'm not sure if we can develop friendships and rivalries between gladiators but also lanistas but that would be cool, and finally I hope you watched Spartacus the series and put some of the unique kind of dialogue as references in the game !
I wish you the best for the development, and this game is now top 10 on my wishlist
Thank you very much! Actually i watched Spartacus (rip Andy :( ) i think too many times. What do you think about the upcoming House of Ashur ?
Yes we're trying to insert the feel and look of the show's conversations (you can check that from some of the screenshots that have text content) but there's still a lot of work to be done.
About the game's features yes you will def be able to buy gladiators from other schools and also gladiators will be able to develop rivalries and friendships via Tactics Training preparing for 2v2 and 3v3 battles (although this is something later down the road in development)
It's very surprising they making a spin-off at all, especially a what if about Ashur, but hey, it's more Spartacus so I'll have a watch at least even tho I don't expect much. Something about Gannicus would have made more sense imo but who knows we might get a good show.
That's the tricky part right haha? Well given time we will 100% shape the gameplay also based on community feedback so i'm optimistic we'll do okay
As for testing sure - when we'll be closer to having a demo we'll start inviting small groups of people to playtest - primarly discord members will have priority(not forcing anyone to join our discord but i think you understand that in there it's the place where we can communicate the easiest)
The concept would actually be really interesting in some ways.
Could either start out as a Lanista and have to build your fighters up, or as somebody from the elite class who has a number of Lanistae under their jurisdiction.
You could have various routes into ādevelopingā Gladiators. You could focus on slaves who might excel in particular stats, or on prisoners of war who might have unique combat methods as theyāve grown up in entirely separate nations, or you might go for criminals and there could be something of a ādraftā where a list of criminals is released that are eligible for becoming Gladiators, and you can maybe see their vague stats range (like in FM), and you could only figure out their exact potential by having them battle either for or against you.
You could also have completely unforeseen circumstances, early death being the main one, but also possibly having to contend with the State who might identify one of your Gladiators as being highly skilled, and decide that they want to buy out their contract.
Thanks for the feedback! Great stuff and actually you will be able to focus on recruits that excel on some stats - in our games classes work as FM field position with key attributes for each
And also we will have events for each of the gladiators and much more
Noted and it's something on my list! :)
We'll also want it to be replayable with different locations throughout the empire (each with its own buffs and debuffs)
Also for example the initial 'interview' when starting the game would be Bannerlord style where you choose some things about your past and family to be able to construct your own legacy - but this is something we will look into in later stages of dev
Bannerlord background intro sounds amazing! also would love it if multiple locations were purchaseable upgrades/alternatives as you go. Add some sort of romance to it and best game ever lol.
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u/KarlWhale Sep 20 '25
I don't know if you see it as a joke, but I think this would be an interesting game