Gladiator Guild Manager
A single player battle simulator where you have your own guild of gladiators, those gladiators can be from different types that you can recruit, level up, equip them with gear and make them fight in the arena.
The game is pretty complex, there are plenty of things that can change the outcome of a battle, from consumable items that can boost different stats, recover health or stamina to consumables that will protect your gladiators from knockbacks, debuffs etc. stats that you can increase once they level up, the number of items you can equip on a Gladiator. As he levels up you unlock new item slots.
You can have different types of battles, 1 vs 1 - 2vs 2 - 3 vs 3 - 1vs few - few vs 1 and there's the arena where you fight for the first place. Each battle is meant to be played differently, different strategy, different consumables, different items, you need to prepare everything and thing steps ahead to win the battle.
Besides the weapons and xp you get after the battle you also get resources, you need those to buy new buildings, upgrade them, reset stats of your gladiators to respec.
Below I will show you how my first gameplay went, I played like 30-45mins and the game feels amazing, and this is the 1.0 version I think there are many other things that will come.
Example battle, I have a tank gladiator, a ranged archer, a mage and a necromancer that can revive the dead enemies and make them join my gladiators to fight the enemies
While starting the game you need to pick your first gladiators, you have 4 opened slots for your gladiators, you unlock more by upgrading buildings later on, you don't have many types to pick from, if you want more diversity you have to upgrade your guild and buy new buildings, each new building allows you to recruit a new type of gladiator.
My plan was to have a tank that takes the damage while other ranged gladiators smash the enemies, I got myself a Knight and 2 Archers to start with, also bought some cheap items for my gladiators, strength for the knight and agility for the archers.
| My first Items | |
|---|---|
 | Cheap starter items that can barely lift the stats, but if each gladiator has something equipped all together will increase the winning chances. There are some special items that you can get from quests later on, or even drop them that can grant you special effects (shields, spawn monsters, heal, xp increase and many more) |
Below I will attach a screen with the first battles that I had to fight, most of them are self explanatory, the one that might need some details in this case is the FEW VS 1 battle where you have to place some of your gladiators to fight a single one that usually is a couple of levels higher then you.
If one or more of gladiators die in battle, they will recover over time, the game has a day system, as time passes different things take place, the gladiators and items that are being sold can get discounts, you can get quests from the 3 npc you know, but you need to be careful with those as finishing someone's quest might decrease your stats and relation with one of the other npcs.
The time passing system, you can increase it's speed or pause it, and also you can see in the timeline at the top of your screen what events will take place, in the picture above you can see that Day 30 I will pay the wage I own to my gladiators, between 1st and 2nd day of the next month I will have an arena, between 3rd and 4th there will be new gladiators added to the market and between 8 and 9 I can join a new battle
In the top left corner you can see the NPCs and your relation with them, good relation gives you a boost in rewards from their quests/events, a bad relation can decrease them.
As the game advances you get new types of Gladiators, the next one that I bought was a Mage, just watch the fireball that she can throw and burn the enemies over time.
My Mage burning the Enemies
I farmed fights, arenas, did quests, my gladiators started leveling up, also did some changes where I sold one of my archers to buy a necromancers, this allows me to revive enemies that I killed and make them fight on my side.
By the end of my first gameplay, these are the gladiators, each one with decent items.
Also I managed to save some resources, I will later on invest in new buildings depending on what gladiators I will get in the market, if anything high level or rare pops up I will build the necessary building to be able to buy it.
And my inventory got pretty full, not worth that much, but still, in the end if I am not going to use all of them I will start selling them one by one, or replace them with better ones from the store.
The NPCs part, here I tried to focus 2 of them while rejecting quests from the 3rd, I want to see how much I can level the relationship with those 2 and increase the rewards. The friendly ones give me a 20% bonus in rewards while the unfriendly reduce my rewards by 20%.
This was all for my first part of the game, if you got to this part of my post I'd like to thank you, also if you are interested into the game, it is currently 50% off on Steam.
Gladiator Guild Manager -50% : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1043260/Gladiator_Guild_Manager/
In my next post I will probably continue my Kingdom: New Lands game, I really want to check what awaits me on the new island and if I can survive it, if you would also like to check my first contact with the game, you can do it in the link below or click -> Kingdom: New Lands
@ady-was-here/kingdom-new-lands-build-survive-sail-967
Gladiator Guild Manager Specs:
OS: Windows 7 and above
Processor: ~4 Ghz so anything above the ryzen 3 and i3 last gens should be fine
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: 256mb Video Memory, capable of Shader Model 2.0+
Storage: 2 GB available space