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A Legionary's Life lets you play as a Roman soldier during the years of the Second Punic War and beyond. Rise up through the ranks and win prestigious awards or just focus on making it home in one piece; it's up to you.

A Legionary's Life is a rome, historical and turn-based game developed and published by Alessandro Roberti.
Released on September 25th 2019 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and German.

It has received 2,371 reviews of which 2,063 were positive and 308 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified A Legionary's Life into these genres:

Rome Historical Turn-Based RPG Turn-Based Combat Replay Value War Perma Death Pixel Graphics Old School Text-Based Retro Rogue-lite Singleplayer Rogue-like Choices Matter Simulation Indie

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7 SP1+
Processor: Any CPU with SSE2 instruction set support: Intel Pentium 4+, AMD Athlon 64+
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Any graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
Storage: 200 MB available space

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Nov. 2025

I have a love/hate relation with this game. It is a nice oldschool text rpg rougelite and varius random things can happen through out a campaign which makes replaying it very interesting. But the game is also so full of shit. You are a battlehardened centurion fighting a group of unarmored farmers with pitchforks. To them, you are like Mars, the god of war. Your sword is among the finest the world has ever seen. You hit one of the farmers in the head for 5 damage.... You are back at camp trying to improve your physical condition or martial skills. You gain no progress 4 times in a row. You fight an opponent, his weapon skills are below avarage, the rest of his stats and his morale is about avarage. Your morale is superb and your skills and stats are upper tier, 70+. You miss your first attack. He manages to feint you causing your stance to drop to about 25%. You try to recover, you fail. You try again, you fail. Now your opponents stance are starting to drop cause he made a few misstakes. Now is your chance! You strike, you miss. Your opponent recover his stance and gets a double action round, he hits you in the groin for 14 damage. You finish the game now you have 1000 points to spend on your next character. You pump his stats up, get some nice armour and sword thinking now you will be battle beast! You volonteer to assault a garrison of mercenaries. You can barely match their skills. You manage to kill one of them, but now you only have about half your hitpoints left. You go into defensive mode hoping your next opponent might make a few misstakes or at the very least wont be able to kill you before the battle is over. He hits you for the remainder of your healthpoints his first strike. GG you noob. Start over.

Oct. 2025

Dieing at the walls of Nova Carthage - what's not to like? This game doesn't have the visuals, but it nails the atmosphere, the feeling. It throws you into this huge war machine that is Rome and all you can do is try not to break prematurely. If that's not your definition of fun, then go play a random open world shooter or the latest total war game.

July 2025

I'm writing this review after just completing all the achievements for this game. Honestly one of the best RPG games I've played, it really puts you in the shoes of just an ordinary legionary at first. As you keep playing the game and get a few playthroughs you get more and more points you can spend on enhancements. This severely increases the replayability as you progress your stories from one of an ordinary legionary to that of a renowned centurion with some of the best swordsmanship in the army and potentially a game ending as a consul. The historical accuracy is great and if you take the time to read each one of the texts you can really get immersed in the story. I've tried both this game and Never Second in Rome the supposed sequel to A Legionary's Life and honestly keep coming back to this game, I almost get overwhelmed with the amount of decisions and other complex combat and UI inside of Never Second in Rome. A Legionary's Life is the perfect blend of RNG combat and a level of complexity that makes you feel as if each decision matters but dosen't overwhelm you and has a reason of common sense. Overall, would highly recommend this game if you're looking for something that feels like you're in the shoes of a Roman soldier with aspects of gambling, raging at your own luck, and fights that will have you stressing with whether you should send an attack with low odds or hope his attack misses and you can counter, overall a very enjoyable experience for the casual autistic RNG semi-historybuffed lunatic.

April 2025

Great game, the permadeath makes it so when you make the choice to extend yourself into a dangerous situation and barely survive it is rewarding, and the meta progression makes it so even in failure you can try again and do better next time.

Feb. 2025

Great game, very engaging. My only gripe is that it ends. Hope the dev eventually works on a DLC. PS If you purchase this game and enjoy it, check out Never Second In Rome.

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A Legionary's Life is currently priced at 6.99€ on Steam.

A Legionary's Life is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 6.99€ on Steam.

A Legionary's Life received 2,063 positive votes out of a total of 2,371 achieving a rating of 8.34.

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A Legionary's Life was developed and published by Alessandro Roberti.

A Legionary's Life is playable and fully supported on Windows.

A Legionary's Life is not playable on MacOS.

A Legionary's Life is not playable on Linux.

A Legionary's Life is a single-player game.

A Legionary's Life does not currently offer any DLC.

A Legionary's Life does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

A Legionary's Life does not support Steam Remote Play.

A Legionary's Life is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Release 25 Sep 2019

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