Gladiator Guild Manager

Gladiator Guild Manager

Released Jun 2024

A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

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Evaluation

Gladiator Guild Manager launched into full 1.0 release on June 22, 2024 after approximately six years of development (including nearly three years in Early Access). The developer, Entertainment Forge (solo developer Darko), has been transparent throughout about the game's direction. At the time of full release, the developer noted in a May 2024 announcement that "after 1.0 is out, that does not mean updates will stop — we still have plans to add more things to the game." True to that, a meaningful post-launch update arrived on June 6–7, 2025: the Glory Mode difficulty feature was added (a free gameplay update), and a paid comic book DLC — "The Price of Glory" — was released. Both DLC items listed on the store are now released. However, the most recent developer communications, from June 6, 2026, make clear that Entertainment Forge's focus has decisively shifted to a new project: Dreadwoods Gatekeeper, a horror sim currently in its second beta phase. The developer explicitly states that Dreadwoods "should be finished this year" (2026) and describes it as the team's current priority. There is no mention of any further planned content for Gladiator Guild Manager. Both DLC items are released, no unreleased content is listed on the store, and the developer's own posts from June 2026 are entirely focused on the new game. The last substantive Gladiator Guild Manager content shipped on June 7, 2025 (Glory Mode + comic book DLC). The developer has not announced any future updates, expansions, or content for the game since that date, and the studio's public communications in 2026 are exclusively about Dreadwoods Gatekeeper. The game appears to have reached its natural completion point with the June 2025 update.
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Developer announces that their new game, Dreadwoods Gatekeeper, is approaching its second beta testing phase and 'should be finished this year.' No mention of any further Gladiator Guild Manager content planned.
news post · Jun 6, 2026 source development ending
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Developer released the Glory Mode feature update and the comic book DLC, then announced they are working on a new game (Dreadwoods Gatekeeper). This post marks the last significant content release for Gladiator Guild Manager.
news post · Jun 7, 2025 source content shipped
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Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
GrabTheGames
Achievements
51
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Hire your first gladiators and begin your adventure in this epic fantasy world.

Compete in Arena Championships

Choose gladiators for each fight, position them, and instruct their behavior.

The battle will play out on its own, showing you the results of your strategy. Keep a close watch on your enemy, understand their moves, and figure out how to best counter them.

Your goal is to win all the arena championships.

Grow Your Team

As you progress, you’ll be able to build new types of buildings that will let you hire new types of gladiators, including warriors, rangers, beasts, mages, and more, allowing you to form unique teams.

Gladiators have traits that determine their bonuses and additional abilities. You can find great deals in the market or teach and upgrade traits as you form the strategy for your team.

Unleash your creativity by growing your unique team. Level them up, upgrade traits, and equip them with powerful items, all while planning carefully how to build the most efficient team of gladiators that work well together.

Various Battles

Between monthly championships, you should maximize your profit and growth to gain an edge in the next tournament.

Enter weekly Ring of Death arenas that offer different challenges.

Take advantage of changing weather conditions that affect gladiators to gain the upper hand on your opponents.

Quests and World

A variety of quest offers will come from different factions in need of your deadly gladiator services outside of the arena. Build or destroy reputations with them.

Help out the poor, support the district and the kingdom, or aid the progress of magic, depending on the main allegiance you choose.

Change the fate of this region and kingdom, or get involved in silly side plots.

Once you’re ready to put your gladiators' power to the ultimate test, accept challenging quests where your team will fight horrifying boss monsters.

Replayability

Each time you play, you can choose a different main allegiance, resulting in different main quests and endings while you try different team strategies.

Tournament Mode

Once you finish the main campaign, try yourself in endless tournament mode where gameplay is simplified into rounds. Enemies get stronger and stronger, and you play until you lose. Leave your score on the Steam leaderboard to compare with other players or friends.

Community

We’d love to have you in our  Discord. community and hear your feedback and experience with the game.

Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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