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Never Second in Rome

80% positive of 647 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Alessandro Roberti.

About the game

Never Second in Rome is a turn-based historical game with RPG and management elements. You are a Roman centurion in the army of Julius Caesar. You will control both your character and the unit under his command.

Tagged by players

  • Rome
  • Turn-Based
  • Historical
  • War
  • Text-Based
  • Tactical RPG
  • Turn-Based Combat
  • Old School
  • Turn-Based Tactics
  • Turn-Based Strategy
  • Management
  • Lore-Rich

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Very Positive

What players say

  • Recommended
    The gameplay loop we had in the first game where you died and then retried while being slightly better is gone. The campaign is a lot longer and has considerably less RNG. The decisions you make while choosing what to train follow you for a long time. I ended up not liking the cohort combat. As you get deeper into the game, there are battles that feel like they drag on for way too long and that barely anything is…

    41 h played when written. 7 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Until the fatigue system is made to be less oppressive on the centurion, this is unfun to play. IT's fun to manage the Century and engage in all sorts of roleplay shenanigans, but all this fun is instantly murdered when you have a long combat sequence and your centurion is just. Forced to suffer because you can't even avoid fighting, otherwise you're branded a traitor, so by the middle of that combat sequence you're…

    11 h played when written. 14 found it helpful.

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