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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.
Never Second in Rome is a rome, historical and turn-based game
developed and published by Alessandro Roberti.
Released on February 18th 2025 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 312 reviews of which 236 were positive and 76 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 12.79€ on Steam.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1+
- Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable GPUs
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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I want to recommend the game. I am giving a positive review because I enjoyed the game. But I do feel as if the mythic quality of his first game is somewhat lost in this "not a sequel". In Legionary life you could eventually become a legendary warrior of Rome after a lot of grinding and a lot of trial and error. NSR doesn't seem to have that same quality of, I just achieved the impossible and the game recognized that. Then again I played the game a while ago and I'm only posting a review now because I saw the recent reviews. While I agree this should not be the former game, I feel there are aspects of the former game that should be carried over to achieve the same enjoyment of the game. If my Legion is well trained and able to hold their own, against the enemy, there should be a moment in the game where we're given a flavorful reward for the effort. Otherwise there's no point in over achieving and training my century to be a block of death for Caesar's war efforts. I wanted to wait to see the final chapters before giving this review because I don't know what the developer wants to do with the story and I didn't want to pass judgement until that happened because I am on the fence. But right now I don't think there will be a moment in the game equivalent to breaking the Phalanx at the end of the first game or winning the foot race. Moments like that are what made the first game special. I haven't played Chapters 11-15 yet so I don't know if he adjusted. I'll find out when he posts the last 5 and we'll see if he was able to replicate the magic. I'll reiterate that I don't want a copy of the first game, but I want there to be opportunities to excel and prove I mastered the game.
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Very fun game with plenty of potential. It has a little in common with A Legionary's Life, but to just call it a sequel would be inapt. It is its own game in every right. It's really easy to appreciate the developer's attention to detail on the history of the late Roman Republic, which makes roleplay very easy to fall into if that's your play style. As far as mechanics go: formation combat can take a minute to understand, but I really don't think it's that bad of a learning curve. Individual combat is similar to how it is in A Legionary's Life but still distinguishable and very enjoyable, especially the way it is incorporated into formation combat. Was worth my 10 dollars even while in early access. Not a complete game yet, but its future looks very bright.
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I saw the negative reviews for the game but played the demo and like it. I bought the game and I am looking forward to the update for the rest of the campaign. This game is significantly different from a Legionary's Life since the focus is on the Century and not so much the Centurion. The only mechanic that I really want to see added is the ability to add points to your character creation from your previous play through like Legionary's Life had. Looking forward to the updates.
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I am a big fan of A Legionary's Life, which for those who don't know is the previous game made by this dev. I have over 135 hours in it and thoroughly enjoyed playing it in countless play-throughs. I enjoyed this game at times and undoubtedly it is stronger in multiple aspects than the previous game, with strong writing and a more interesting combat system. However, have to say that is was a much less enjoyable experience to play through than the previous game. I have seen quite a few reviews mention that they miss the meta progression, and I personally think the dev should strongly consider adding it for a few reasons. Part of reason ALL was so fun was feeling progress even in failure. I would make saves devoted almost entirely to one objective, for example winning the foot race near end-game, and legacy allowed me to put enough points into essential stats to survive and devote the save entirely to that objective. The removal of the system means, as another reviewer stated, that there is a 'right' way to play. I am not going to tell the dev the only way to make this game as enjoyable as the previous one is to add a legacy system, but at least for me the addition of that or a similar system would enhance my experience and i don't see how it would detract from the game at all. Another more specific reason is that without meta progression a death is incredibly disheartening. The reason for this comes back to the 'right' way to play problem. When I would die in ALL my first thought was always, "What adjustments should I make to enhance my survival chances and/or enjoyment next play-through?" A death in this game just means repeating what you just did with the exception of changing the bar on a couple of different stats. There are a few other relatively minor flaws. As another reviewer stated the inclusion of named characters that are not the main character is frustrating. It is simply even more tedious work and does not feel worth the investment as you do not become attached to them. Almost every other flaw has already been fixed (direct commission being useless) or I am confident will be fixed at a later date by the dev. Now on to the good. This game has a lot of strengths that are by-and-large not being mentioned in the reviews and the game rating is definitely suffering for the game being a sequel and not having meta progression, with people judging it more negatively for both of those reasons. Disclaimer that I do not pretend to know much about roman history and certainly not much about war history, having heard about Vercingetorix is essentially where my knowledge begins and ends. Speaking solely on the strength of the narrative this game is great, it was interesting and presumably historically accurate. Narrative is what kept me going even when i wasn't enjoying the gameplay. I didn't feel as attached to my legion and character as I think I could have, but I definitely cared when my character or a member of my century died and wanted to win all the little competitions. The combat is rough around the edges but could definitely be better than ALL's combat given time. Finally and most importantly, the game is pretty cheap and has a demo, both of which are two of the best qualities a game can have. To sum up, the dev made a good game that could be better and deserves trust based on his previous history. I'm sure dev is reading some if not all of these reviews, and I'd say I enjoy what you've made and hope you keep making games and/or other media.
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Certainly scratches that itch A Legionary's Life left, I like some of the design changes like assigning points at the start instead of rolling for them, or the new stances in individual combat Needs more events in between chapters, I keep seeing the same "I will pay you for less work" event every chapter, or the results of it, but the game is still in development and I certainly expect them coming Maps. We need maps to show where we are in the Gaul or around Rhine for some context. History is interesting enough to read but without maps or which tribe I'm fighting in which part of France, I keep glancing over names without reading. Or the troop movements in a battle, which flank fell back, which advanced etc Squares. I'm sure a sizeable people playing this game watched channels like Historia Civilis, videos like The Battle of Alesia. Squares give me joy. The UI has enough place to show some red squares fighting. Also Battle of Alesia was a bit short for how much of an epic feat it was Needs a handheld tutorial century combat... Maybe the mock battle at the start that we make through events. There are more variables here than a frp and it's so convulated. I like the system though it was hard to follow at first few hours. Only cheating and editing my stats could I finally understand how turns or rounds work, or why I never got to attack
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Never Second in Rome is currently priced at 12.79€ on Steam.
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Never Second in Rome received 236 positive votes out of a total of 312 achieving a rating of 7.11.
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Never Second in Rome was developed and published by Alessandro Roberti.
Never Second in Rome is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Never Second in Rome is not playable on MacOS.
Never Second in Rome is not playable on Linux.
Never Second in Rome is a single-player game.
Never Second in Rome does not currently offer any DLC.
Never Second in Rome does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Never Second in Rome does not support Steam Remote Play.
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Alessandro Roberti
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Alessandro Roberti
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18 Feb 2025
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