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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 May 05th 2026 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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Despite the dev's warnings, this is rather similar to A Legionary's Life. The main difference is you're commanding a century rather than merely being an enlisted soldier. You make your centurion at the start of the game and assign their attributes and skills. Throughout the course of the game you get the opportunity to promote other soldiers and choose their strong attributes. Both your centurion and your deputies are the people you control during the 1:1 turn based combat events that happen during clashes. The game has camp sections where you resolve events with skill checks and manage the training of your century, this is pretty much the same as the first game though with a few more options. As the centurion you decide the attributes and skills that your men focus on improving. After every camp section the game switches to the historical narrative mode describing Caesar's exploits in Gaul and giving you chances to win Caesar's favour with the choices you make. Eventually these culminate in battles in which you must lead your century against enemy units. The battle system is fairly simple, but fun. You are a centurion so focused on your century, as such your focus is keeping your unit cohesion together during battles rather than positioning such as you might encounter in a full blown strategy/tactics game. You primarily control the engagement style of your century (cautious to fierce/aggressive stance), this adds bonuses to the dice rolls used to determine your damage to the enemy unit cohesion. Occasionally, your centurion and named soldiers may enter 1:1 fights with enemies across the line which uses a similar combat system to A Legionary's life. In single combat your goal is generally to reduce the enemies stance, which makes them easier to hit. You can then perform attacks on different areas of their body. As most of the battles in the game happen during unit on unit clashes, the fights usually only last a few rounds and most likely the enemy will disengage if you haven't killed them, it allows you to focus on defence if you're fighting a superior opponent and holding them off till the line shifts. Realistically, you are just a century and the expectation is that you hold the line, keep cohesion together and break similar sized enemy formations. The game sets victory conditions of each battle as you keeping a certain level of cohesion to your century and reducing the enemy to a certain number. If you go further than the victory condition requires, then you earn extra favour from Caesar which allows you to be promoted faster. All in all, this is a very fun historical RPG with some simple strategy and tactics elements. The turn based combat system is satisfying and the tactics system for unit clashes is easy to pick up. The game does not demand an excessive level of micro management (which was one of my concerns going in). I would happily recommend it to anyone that enjoyed the first game.
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Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War are brought to life in this game, and you're a centurion in the middle of it! You start the game as an experienced, powerful warrior, while the real challenge is to use the training mechanics to whip your century into shape. The individual combat mechanic from A Legionary's Life has been refined a little to reduce the randomness, but the main event is its interaction with formation combat, which tests different skills and circumstances for your century. Your century's performance is essential to victory and earning your promotions. The game is at its strongest when you can get engaged in the strict historical accuracy of the first-person narrative. The actual mechanics are complex. They're a thoughtful simulation of ancient combat, but there's a lot to learn at the start, so you might feel frustrated if you don't understand them or pleased when you get the hang of it and success begins to depend on wise preparation rather than dice rolls. That largely determines the difficulty you'll experience. Some balancing work will hopefully make the game more accessible to new players in Early Access. There is some room for replay value with different character builds, but fewer forks in the narrative than in A Legionary's Life . You can't miss much unless you choose to forgo challenges that might be difficult (but which you don't need to fear, since you can reload when you die). Yet even so I've replayed it several times waiting for the final chapters to come out. If you're in the niche this type of RPG is for, there is nothing as satisfying as Never Second in Rome .
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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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Frequently Asked Questions
Never Second in Rome is currently priced at 12.79€ on Steam.
No, Never Second in Rome is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.79€ on Steam.
Yes, 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.
Yes, Never Second in Rome is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Never Second in Rome is not playable on MacOS.
No, Never Second in Rome is not playable on Linux.
Never Second in Rome is a single-player game.
No, Never Second in Rome does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Never Second in Rome does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Never Second in Rome does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Never Second in Rome 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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Developer
Alessandro Roberti
Publisher
Alessandro Roberti
Release
05 May 2026
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